Matt Cappiello

May 4, 2006

The Wealthy Man’s Woodstock

By Matt Cappiello

"Hello, hippies," Maynard James Keenan said as his circus-metal foursome Tool took the stage at Coachella Sunday night. During the last 90 minutes of the set, I spotted two shirtless men in jester hats and a woman scream...

April 27, 2006

Border Guards Must Dig Deeper

By Matt Cappiello

As American controversy over immigration reaches a climax, we at UCSB must ask ourselves this important question - would Jared Goldschen or Romy Lea Frazier make a better A.S. President? That's my first and last comment ...

April 7, 2006

An Inferno Even Dante Would Love

By Matt Cappiello

Rock and roll is essentially licentious. Though, at its essence it is a fiery and ultimately liberating art. This July, the World/Inferno Friendship Society will release its new record, an amalgamation of cabaret, sailor...

April 4, 2006

Politics Saturate Hollywood Thriller

By Matt Cappiello

My father and I share many pastimes: We like to get loaded, we like to argue and we like the cinema. Over Spring Break, we shared an important father-son bonding experience - getting kicked out of a zombie movie while th...

March 9, 2006

Don’t Panic

By Matt Cappiello

If I was in a rock band, I would ride onstage on a gold-plated motorcycle. Unfortunately, the members of The Academy Is... had too much integrity for this death-defying stunt. However, Artsweek did interview Academy guit...

February 27, 2006

Secrecy Walks Complicated Line

By Matt Cappiello

When you keep a secret, it doesn't really go away. Often, it just festers until it reaches the surface, exploding like a large boil.

February 23, 2006

Live: Avenged Sevenfold, CKY and the Confession

By Matt Cappiello

I'm standing at the front railing, a high-decibel monitor in front of my face. A large, tattooed woman behind me emits a sigh of frustration. "God, Avenged had better go on soon," she says. "Then I can go smoke."

February 16, 2006

In Flames | Come Clarity | Ferret Music

By Matt Cappiello

This is the popification of death metal. On In Flames' latest accomplishment, Come Clarity, the Swedish Gothenburg maestros fuse fearsome, Metallica-emulating guitar riffs with FM staple hooks.

February 10, 2006

Students Lack Geographic Sense

By Matt Cappiello

To truly understand something, you have to be able put a name on it. So I'm talking to Jeff Gibson, the Opinion Editor at the Nexus. I explain to him the context of my newest article, a treatise on geography, illiteracy ...

February 9, 2006

Live: Audrey Sessions @ Giovanni’s

By Matt Cappiello

Giovanni's is the new CBGB's. On March 30, 1974, CBGB's stalwarts the Ramones performed their first show ever. On February 2, 2006, the Audrye Sessions performed a show in Isla Vista and, although it wasn't as good as th...

February 2, 2006

Love for All Things Silly

By Matt Cappiello

In the course of 90 minutes, a self-proclaimed "pompous old bastard" shot a mock cat out of a cannon, while making fun of old people and trophy wives in between. A mock coffin was rolled out on wheels, and a mock mistres...

February 2, 2006

This Corea Has ‘Seoul’

By Matt Cappiello

Jazz music is quite similar to the Isla Vista dating scene. Everybody's a player, but not many of us really know the game. That's why Chick Corea, one of the world's most innovative jazz keyboardists, will appear at Camp...

January 26, 2006

Cat Power | The Greatest | Matador Records

By Matt Cappiello

When I first listened to Cat Power's latest, The Greatest, I didn't get it. There were no hit singles, nothing to satisfy my short attention span.

January 13, 2006

A Winter Break to Fix What Katrina Broke

By Matt Cappiello

A red Ford pickup drives down a dirt path, carrying a coffin and seven UCSB students. It is the early afternoon in Phoenix, La. - a small rural area in the vicinity of Plaquemines Parish.

January 9, 2006

Congress Misreads the Green

By Matt Cappiello

When reading the newspaper, it's hard to read between the lines. Articles are written from the "objective," story-specific perspective of the journalist, often without mention to their context or larger repercussions.

November 21, 2005

Author Discusses a New History of Human Creation

By Matt Cappiello

Visitors to the Karpeles Manuscript Library last Saturday had a close encounter with an author who presented his theory that aliens are responsible for creating humans. Marshall Klarfeld, independent researcher and autho...