Movies & TV - Dec. 30, 2008
"The Super Noble Brothers" gets another showing
Local artist Mark Escribano's documentary, "The Super Noble Brothers," made its debut at the Milwaukee International Film Festival in 2007. It screens again Thursday, Jan. 15 at the Oriental.
Tags: tommy noble, andy noble, davey noble, escribano, thousandaires, miff, the pacers, lotus land, riverwest, blowtorch, schwarm, angelique rosario, tarney, spike, riverwesterners, inflammables, letendre, superpowers

Music - Nov. 21, 2002
Classifying Codebreaker's music no easy mission
Commandant Steven Hawley says it's more a feeling we get, the eight tracks on the band's new record, "Spacecamp Luxury," share a lot of sonic similarities with '80s synth pop of all stripes, too. But, Codebreaker are no revivalists and they're certainly not copying any trends, past or present. In reality, Codebreaker's style is much more difficult to codify.
Tags: Codebreaker, Thousandaires, Noble, Schwarm

Music - Feb. 19, 2002
Codebreaker finds the warp zone
No shoe-gazing at the Codebreaker show at The Social last weekend. It was all "Beach boys meet Kraftwerk at a Falco orgy," in the words of one awed spectator.
Tags: Codebreaker, Signaldrift, The Social, Thousandaires, Orbit, new wave

Music - Nov. 13, 2001
Super Powers scale heights of dub
Look, over at The Social. It's a bird, it's a plane. No! It's the super line-up of The Super Powers, playing together for the first time in a long while.
Tags: Eric Blowtorch, Super Powers, dub, reggae, Citizen King, Thousandaires, Hi-Fi Cafe, Noble Brothers, Nate Vest