The White Stripes, meanwhile, struck out, failing to fill the hall and even mystifying the audience with their eccentricity, pretty much ensuring that they'll remain a cult band for the rest of their career. The Strokes stepped up to the plate and hit a home run with their bright, shiny rock-pop, proving that they're true professionals, ensuring them (as though they didn't have it already) the industry backing to take the next step to global pop-star status. 15, and all the doofus rock critics in the city wrote basically identical reviews: Two hot young bands on the verge of mega-success get the career-pivotal chance to audition for the big leagues. The Strokes and the White Stripes shared a bill at Radio City Music Hall on Aug. We all know how hot two naked women are, but what advantage is there to misleading misogynistic men and unsuspecting grrls? Why not just believe the director when she says it's sci-fi? Ambiguous relationships between women (despite obvious man/woman love) have cast this film into the no man's land of the Gay/Lesbian section, allowing it to be lost amid tender coming-of-age romance and greasy sex romps in video stores across the city. It's simply that barely anyone knows this is the best New York City sci-fi, and that's the fault of bad marketing. In fact, the point here has nothing to do with the director's almost plausible theories or the artful cinematography. It's the story of Tucker, a pulp writer from the 50s who acts as the lens through which the film is shown. Why Would She Lie? Directed by Hilary Brougher and set in and around Tompkins Square Park between the years 19, Sticky Fingers is what happens when you do sci-fi on an indie budget. A slew of great shows went down in these places this year here's hoping they stay alive until whatever band you're in gets big enough to play them. Now several places have materialized in Brooklyn: Northsix, Southpaw, Local, as well as Luxx and the venerable L'Amour. For the longest time, bands have complained that New York has no midsize rock venues?nothing between CBGB and Irving Plaza. As rock turns into jazz (respected but commercially unsalvageable), it becomes important to honor the places that keep it alive.
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