DJ FatKid

April 18, 2003

Moving Units | s/t | Rx RemedyDance Disaster Movement | We Are From Nowhere | Dim Mak

By DJ FatKid

Moving Units is one band trying quite hard to learn everything they can. Having opened shows for the holy disco-punk trinity of the Rapture, Hot Hot Heat and Radio 4, they debut four songs (a prelude to a purported major...

March 7, 2003

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | Nocturama | Mute/Anti

By DJ FatKid

When someone really wants to emit an aura of creepiness, they lurk around, glare ominously, mumble about doom and despair and occasionally make passes at members of the opposite sex in awkward but unusual ways.

December 5, 2002

DJ Fatkid’s Top Five

By DJ FatKid

Album of the Year, No Seriously, Listen to Me, It's a Lot Better Than You Think - N.E.R.D., In Search Of... Listen to it. It's brilliant, right? No, it's brilliant.

November 21, 2002

Snoop Dogg | Paid The Cost To Be Da Bo$$ | Capitol/Priority Missy Elliott | Under Construction | Elektra

By DJ FatKid

Missy isn't fat, Snoop isn't toasted, and rap has come full circle. Not full circle back to the Grandmaster Flash (or, God forbid, Blondie) days, but full circle to '60s soul.

November 14, 2002

The Kills | Black Rooster EP | Dim Mak Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Machine EP | Touch & Go

By DJ FatKid

"Could the White Stripes be as retro-revolutionary if Jack were the drummer and Meg the singer?" Or, in other words, can Zeppelin-esque cock rock be successfully reconstituted as clit rock?

October 24, 2002

MC Paul Barman | Paullelujah! | Coup d’Etat

By DJ FatKid

And in late-breaking news, MC Paul Barman has fulfilled his quote-a. Brown University's most prominent rapper brings an album's worth of geeky-cocky Caucasian rhyme, and the results are Ivy League in the worst way.

October 17, 2002

Jurassic 5 | Power in Numbers | Interscope

By DJ FatKid

Twinkle twinkle hip hop star, how you wonder what you are. L.A. longtime new-old-school crew Jurassic 5 finally returns with a long-awaited second LP, and the results are scattered across the map

October 10, 2002

Loh-Cal Flavor

By DJ FatKid

Sandra Tsing Loh guards her turf with the tenacity of a pit bull. "I think that falls into anecdote territory," she said when asked about her worst experience performing, "and we're just doing an interview. No funny quip...

September 26, 2002

Dear Janeane

By DJ FatKid

Dear Janeane Garofalo, I'm sure you've gotten this kind of thing before: a letter that walks the line between being a love letter and a sort of missive of encouragement. But now it's Artsweek's turn.

September 26, 2002

Hot Hot Heat | Make Up the Breakdown | Sub Pop OK Go | s/t | Capitol

By DJ FatKid

As we put some distance between our MP3'd, puffy-jacketed, fo-shizzeling fin-de-siecle society and the one that, less than 20 years ago, was living in constant fear of nuclear obliteration, it becomes easier to romantici...

September 20, 2002

3-Count Me In

By DJ FatKid

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) comes to Santa Barbara for the first time in 15 years. Actually, for the first time ever; all prior wrestling engagement were actually booked by the World Wildlife Fund.

September 20, 2002

Funkadelic | Hardcore Jollies, One Nation Under a Groove, Uncle Jam Wants You, The Electric Spanking of War Babies | Priority/Capitol

By DJ FatKid

George Clinton's Funkadelic provided the Funk to Parliament's P, and, despite the promiscuous member-swapping between the two groups, Funkadelic kept its sound distinct from that of the other Funk Mob operations.

August 28, 2002

Making a Minor Scene

By Angela Potter, DJ FatKid

Santa Barbara's a rough town. It's not violent, improverished or even badly paved. But it is tough on the under-21 crowd. Never fear, Artsweek is here. We've handpicked a panel of experts in assorted recreational fields,...

May 29, 2002

Year of the Rat

By DJ FatKid

We've all got to start somewhere. For Callous, an MC with the Humboldt-come-Isla Vista hip hop ensemble Dirty Rats, everything started on the floor. "I remember when I was first in the living room in our old house," he s...

May 29, 2002