Arts & Entertainment

A week and a half ago, I got an email from MGM Studios asking if I might like to join them over the weekend for a destination press junket in Lake Tahoe, Nevada to chat with the stars of Hot Tub Time Machine.

The Real McKenzies

With Dreadnoughts and Let’s Dance
Thursday, March 18 at 8:30 p.m.
New City Suburbs
(10081 Jasper Ave.)
$15 at www.newcitycompound.com

Tanya Philipovich

Secret Fiction Romance
Doin' Time Records

Canadian Tanya Philipovich's second album is the kind of twangy folk you might hear at a coffee shop, but barely listen to.

She’s Out of My League

Directed by Jim Field Smith
Starring Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve, Krysten Ritter, Mike Vogel, and Nate Torrence
Now Playing

Goodbye Beatdown

With The Soulicitors
Friday, March 19 at 8 p.m.
The Pawnshop (10549 82 Avenue)
$10 at Blackbyrd and Pawnshop

Maurice

Young People With Faces
Warner Brothers/143 Labels

When I saw the title of Maurice’s debut album Young People With Faces, it spoke to me. After all, I’m a young person, and I too have a face. I mean, who could pass up the opportunity to listen to an album with such universal appeal?

Audio/Rocketry

Eastward and Onward
Self Released

The Pack A.D.

We Kill Computers
Mint Records

Kinnie Starr

A Different Day
Last Gang Labels

This weekend, two acts will be hitting the ARTery in an attempt to steal their audience's hearts away to a more stripped-down place and a simpler time. The opening band, Brent Randall and his Pinecones, sounds like something you'd expect from an obscure, forgotten record of three or four decades past.