We first became aware of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music back in 2000, when the Coen Brothers' released O Brother, Where Art Thou? After listening to the old-timey music on the soundtrack, we pondered just what we should call that stuff so we could seek out more of it. Was it country music? Bluegrass? Folk? The key factor, at the time, was we wanted to hear the original recordings and not a......

It's time for our second SFIFF movie giveaway! This one's for a Saturday screening (6:15 p.m. at the Kabuki) of The Old Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, an uplifting music performance documentary featuring performances by Elvis Costello, Beck, Beth Orton, Sonic Youth, and Philip Glass (and many others), all working through the 1920s and 30s folk and blues discography compiled by musical archivist Harry Smith. You know all that music that......

If you like Joy Division and Interpol, why haven't you bought the Editors record yet? These UK-born and University-bred blokes deliver the same style of disaffected echoing vocals paired with disco drum beats and guitar melodies that ring like alarms. Listen to "Munich" [Real / Windows Media] off their record The Back Room that recently came out here in the States. We have two tickets for you to go see their sold out Popscene show......