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Vegan Punks AFI bid Farewell to The Living Room

AFI has earned a devout following after six independent releases and has changed its sound, as well as its lineup, significantly over the last decade.
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Money Mark’s Playhouse

Unofficially recognized as the fourth member of the Beastie Boys, creator of four eclectic solo albums and participant in numerous collaborations, this wonder behind a Wurlitzer is hitting the stage a...
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Movie Review | The Hours: Who’s Afraid of A Prosthetic Nose?

Adapted from the novel "The Hours," director Stephen Daldry takes the interestingly interwoven tale of three women, and visually connects their stories into one cohesive yarn about ultimate alienation...
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Holopaw | Holopaw | Sub Pop

Modest Mouse. Loved by all, right? From the swollen, my-head-is-surprisingly-too-big-for-my-already-oversized-body jocks, to the socially inept, never-going-to-get-laid-cause-I-dress-weird indie kids,...
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Common | Electric Circus | MCA

Common's latest release narrowly spares him from the pitfall of wackness: His commercialized rapping sounds forced, as if he was brought into the studio against his will to record lyrics that are simp...
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KCSB Top Ten: January 23, 2003

1) Hydroponic Sound System | Synthesis | Bomb Hip Hop2) Hot Cross | A New Set of Lungs | Level Plane3) Bleeding Kansas | Giving Emo Something To Cry About | self-released
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | Don’t Knock The Clooney

Artsweek landed an exclusive interview with the Dapper Dan man himself at the Santa Barbara screening of his new film, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind."
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Who’s Really Buying It?

It's the worst news for The Who fans since the death of bassist John Entwistle. On Jan. 13, Pete Townshend, The Who's guitarist, was arrested for possessing child pornography.
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Nevermind the Fishnets

This book is a collection of photographs by Jim Jocoy, a teenager living in the Bay Area at the time, who became deeply enraptured by the burgeoning California punk rock scene.
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Phish | Round Room | Elektra

The absolute first thing I have to say about Phish's new album, Round Room, is that I really want to hear these songs live. I'm somewhat ashamed to admit that I haven't already.
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Sondre Lerche | Faces Down | Astralwerks

Who knew that Norwegian geneticists were so good? I ask this because it is obvious that 19-year-old Norwegian singer/songwriter Sondre Lerche was grown in a lab from stolen scraps of David Bowie's voc...
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Grammy Grammy Glorifying Glitz

While incorporating the tiniest inkling of what the current state of popular music is today, the 2003 Grammy nominations maintain the tradition of letting inebriated monkeys pick the potential winners...
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Hollywood Globetrotters

The Golden Globes. It sounds the title of a porn flick, starring celestial-body sized breasts and a man with an overactive bladder.
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About Schmidt | Heeeere’s…Schmidt!

"About Schmidt" essentially amounts to a road trip for the Centrum Silver age set wherein Payne replaces rowdy, horny teens with an old man whose life is empty and sad.
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Adaptation | Everything’s Coming Up Orchids

When Charlie is hired to adapt Susan Orlean's novel The Orchid Thief, he instead writes about the tribulations of adapting the novel. This is the story of a writer who does not know how to tell a stor...
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