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Das Racist Invites You To Take a Seat, Shut Up.

Before you read the rest of this review, catch up on some history and listen to a track from the band’s first mixtape, Shut Up Dude. It’s called “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” and it’...
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Maroon 5 Bores, Few Care

  Pop golden boys Maroon 5 are back with Hands All Over, the group’s latest studio effort. The album is Maroon 5’s return to the stripped-down, organic sound behind its breakout record and a ...
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Major Lazer Speaks!

When I walk in to Diplo’s green room, he’s bent over a piece of printer paper, writing a rider on it with a silver Sharpie.
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Seeing “You” Once is Enough

Let me start by saying that whatever preconceived opinion you have of You Again is probably right.
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Ben Affleck Dressing As a Nun? Always a Crowd Pleaser.

Ben Affleck’s latest brainchild, “The Town,” is also his latest ploy at attracting fans of the crime/ gangster/ heist genre.
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That One Chick From Superbad Made Another Movie!

Apart from slasher films and romantic comedies, high school flicks might just have the worst hit-to-miss ratio of any genre. For every gem, there is at least a dozen atrociously unoriginal, abysmal fi...
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Velvet Jones Presents: The Melvins!

Sludge metal goofballs The Melvins played Velvet Jones last Thursday, September 16.
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Can Steve Buscemi and Martin Scorcese Save HBO?

“Boardwalk Empire” is HBO’s shot at regaining the title of “Channel with the Best Original Show” from AMC.
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Joaquin Phoenix: More Present Than Ever

Casey Affleck’s admission that “I’m Still Here” was all a hoax makes it a much better movie.
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A Cut Above the Rest

Some movies are slow. They draw you in with nuances of character development and meditative contemplation of the human condition. “Machete” is not one of those movies.
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FYF Festival Satisfies Despite Growing Pains

September 4, which marked the seventh year of FYF Fest, saw downtown Los Angeles look a little like God’s idea of a cruel joke on hipsters.
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Teenage Dreaming

It’s make-or-break time for Santa Barbara native Katy Perry as she releases her sophomore album, Teenage Dream.
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Making Wavves at SOhO

At “Rock the Bells” a few years back, the MC announced that the special guest for the show would be Lauryn Hill. As in Fugees, “Killing Me Softly” Lauryn Hill.
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Stallone is Anything but Expendable

In 2008 American audiences watched as John Rambo defeated an entire fleet of repressive hostiles in the jungles of Burma.
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Inappropriately Titled Album Shocks World

Disney Pop-Tart™ Miley Cyrus has reached the point in her career when it’s time to release the rebellious coming-of-age record.
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