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I always imagined Jack's Mannequin's fans to be just like the music: calm, cool and relaxed. I never would envision that they would be so intense that during the course of last Thursday evening's conc...
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Clint Eastwood, the minimalist director who last brought us 2007's harrowing set of films, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima," is a master at portraying the desperate individual caught...
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"Zack and Miri Make a Porno" sees Kevin Smith doing lots of things that he has never done before -- moving out of his favored New Jersey locale and into a slightly different but equally industrial cor...
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Solo albums are a tricky thing. How does an artist "do their own thing" and manage to make a relevant and enjoyable record without sounding like an ego gone awry? Luckily for lead singer Tom Gabel of ...
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Irish rock group Snow Patrol is too often unfairly compared to Coldplay, but both bands are cut from the same cloth. Sensitive lead singer? Check. Striving for universal truths? Check. Over-done senti...
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It's an event many UCSB students have been waiting for: One of hip hop's most popular commercial artists infecting radio today, Lupe Fiasco, will be playing at UCSB's Thunderdome on Monday evening, in...
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Prop 8 might not have passed (thanks a lot, Central California), but Santa Barbara still knows how to have a gay old time. Tonight at UCSB's Multicultural Center, SB's annual LGBTQ film festival, Out...
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More likely than not, your first sex ed lesson didn't come from mommy and daddy or from your wrinkly fourth-grade teacher. Your parents sat you down in front of the boob tube and popped in a VHS while...
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The futuristic "Repo! The Genetic Opera" hits some good notes, but never quite assembles itself into a coherent melody. I viewed "Repo!" during its advance screening at I.V. Theater last Wednesday. Th...
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The limp, generic police drama "Pride and Glory" can be seen as a second-rate sequel to James Gray's 2007 film, "We Own the Night." Despite the film's considerably talented cast, this overcooked thril...
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Upon entering the stage at the Arlington Theatre last Sunday evening, writer David Sedaris' sense of humor was instantly palpable; he is a short man, probably barely 5'6'', with a distinct, nuanced v...
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Skeletal Lamping is definitive proof that Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes has taken a dive off the deep end. The Athens, Ga. band takes its brand of freaky, psychedelic folk and infuses it with a sexual en...
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Given the fact that it's been nearly a decade since alt-country troubadour Ryan Adams released the Gram Parsons-esque Heartbreaker, it seems somewhat strange that that album remains the impossibly hig...
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Two Fridays ago, the Marley house was, in DJ Raphy's words, "packed packed packed" with partygoers. Last Saturday, he again played music for a packed house, this time on Pasado. But DJ Raphy, AKA fou...
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Last weekend kicked off the first annual Cam-Con, a convention and series of workshops dedicated to teaching local film students everything there is to know about cinematography.
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Tinashe
Snoop Dogg
Drake
Dayglow
Disco Lines
MF DOOM
Anderson .Paak and the Free Nationals
Playboi Carti
Peach Pit
Kendrick Lamar
Charli XCX
Jack Johnson
