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By Warren Etheredge at 2:12 pm

News Warren Etheredge takes his third sip of Visqueen front woman Rachel Flotard in today’s installment of the Warren Taste Test. Today’s topics? What’s the one song on the new album, Message to Garcia, people should listen to? Why is Flotard the Angelina Jolie of Laos? And simultaneously, why is Flotard today’s Tiffany? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKQ_RtXcz20&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] read more →

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By Warren Etheredge at 11:44 am

News Warren Etheredge takes another sip of Visqueen and Rachel Flotard. Visqueen’s latest album—inspired by the death of Flotard’s father—is bona fide indie phenomenon, beating out the Beatles on the sales charts (the White Album anyway) and getting a shoutout from CNN. In this installment: Flotard admits she’s scared of—and turned on by— Ringo; that finding [...] read more →

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By Warren Etheredge at 1:38 pm

News [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohGLhyRUvWg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] In this installment of PubliCola’s Warren Taste Test, Warren Etheredge interviews  local rock and roller Rachel Flotard, whose band Visqueen recently released their third album (including backing vocals from Neko Case and  backing rock from The Long Winters) Message for Garcia. Flotard released the album on her own brand new label, Local 638—an homage [...] read more →

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By Warren Etheredge at 11:03 am

News [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiXoGO4uVVc[/youtube] David Russo may be a brilliant filmmaker, but he is also the first to admit he’s a terrible businessman. He doesn’t care about exhibition or marketing or acclaim. He says he’d be happier working as a dental hygienist. It’s what he wants to be when he grows up, he says. However, in today’s edition [...] read more →

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By Warren Etheredge at 11:32 am

News [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gumsD_6mHa0[/youtube] It’s Part 2 of this week’s Warren Taste Test (we published Part 1 yesterday). We’ve got more from Etheredge’s dynamite interview with local filmmaker David Russo. (Russo is currently working on a 3-D IMAX movie with the Blue Man Group, a  follow-up to his critically acclaimed full-length feature, The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle.) [...] read more →

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By Warren Etheredge at 11:00 am

News [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSqQqSXry6E[/youtube] In filmmaking, you can do things the right way, the wrong way or David Russo’s way. Choose the latter and you may not be richly rewarded (money’s tight for conceptual artists), but your audiences will be (trippy visuals + trippier story = cinematic high). Russo established his auteur status with a series of unorthodox [...] read more →

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