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January 20, 2011

Rx Bandits Rock the Hub

By Artsweek Editor

The Rx Bandits played to a large audience in the Hub last Friday. The band hyped up the crowd with their lively and lyrically strong music.

January 13, 2011

You Crazy for This One, jj

By Carly Bonilla-Flores

On Christmas Eve, two months after releasing the single “Let Them,” Swedish electronic band jj released the mix tape Kills for free on their record label’s Web site.

January 13, 2011

Big Sean Busts Big Nut All Over Velvet Jones, Crowd Pleased

By Fabian Garcia

Detroit rapper Big Sean performed live at Santa Barbara’s Velvet Jones Night Club to a large audience on Saturday, Jan. 8.

January 13, 2011

The Future Is Now for James Blake

By Demi Anter

Up-and-coming electronic artist James Blake’s self-titled debut album is due for official release on Feb. 7.

January 13, 2011

Country Strong, Plot Weak

By Matthew Javidi

My musical tastes lie somewhere between gangsta rap and a little-known genre called “pirate metal,” so the honky-tonk bar tones and sappy, tongue-in-cheek, cowboy romance lyrics of country music aren’t really my ba...

January 13, 2011

Season of the Witch: Not Even Ironically Entertaining

By Rowan Byers

The simplest way to describe this miserable failure of a movie is that it is “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” without any jokes and worse special effects.

January 6, 2011

Natalie Portman: Lady in the Streets, Reportedly a Freak in the Sheets?

By Catherine Sylvain

Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” is a movie obsessed with doubles: mothers and daughters, mentors and protégés, teachers and students, mirrors and reality, art and life, layering on the tropes thicker than Natalie...

January 6, 2011

Tron is an Eyeball Massage with a Happy Ending

By Rowan Byers

I’m gonna get one thing clear and out in the open: I like 3D a lot. It’s easy to say it’s a gimmick only good for a cheap thrill when things pop out toward you or that movies are good enough, or better, flat.

January 6, 2011

Going “Somewhere” With Coppola, Fanning and Dorff

By Derek Boeckelmann

In 2004, Sofia Coppola made history with her work “Lost in Translation,” becoming the first American woman nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards. Since then, Coppola has continued to make what she calls...

January 6, 2011

Yo Kanye I’m Really Happy for You

By Carly Bonilla-Flores

Few albums come out that make me say, “Damn, this is perfect.” Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is one of those albums.

January 6, 2011

True Grit: Truly Great

By Zach Edwin

I’ll be the first to admit that: I am not a fan of the Coen Brothers.

January 6, 2011

“Somewhere” Reviewed

By Derek Boeckelmann

Sofia Coppola burst into the filmmaking scene in 1999, writing and directing an adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’ “The Virgin Suicides.”

November 18, 2010

Artsweek’s Number One Movie of the Year: “Inception”

By Rowan Byers

Looking back over 2010, it becomes clear that we are in the middle of a major shift within the film industry. For better or for worse, 3D is a part of Hollywood.

November 18, 2010