As a uniquely American genre, westerns have traveled a long and dusty trail since John Ford’s My Darling Clementine. In John Hillcoat’s The Proposition, the trail winds its way to the Australian Outback. Brutal yet brilliant, beautiful though bloody, the screenplay by Aussie rocker Nick Cave (The Bad Seeds) holds true to the elements of the genre: Symbolic of all things good is the woman from the east, a fight for survival and power against......

It's pretty slim-pickins this week folks. Might we suggest getting out and enjoying some live music and one of our many swimming holes? *A Prairie Home Companion Altman's finest accomplishment in years. Great direction and strong, realistic acting make up for rather thin plot. *The Proposition A Nick Cave soundtrack to a western film set in Australia starring Guy Pearce? Grrrr. There's a reason Bre is not doing movie previews today. Cars It's funny......

Sale information on wristbands for SXSW will be announced by the Austin Chronicle in this Thursday's issue -- we'll have it posted here as soon as we find out! Arab Strap - The Last Romance Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not Asylum Street Spankers - Pussycat: Bootleg Series V.2 Bela Fleck & the Flecktones - The Hidden Land Billy Bragg - Box Set V.1 Billy Bragg -......