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The Wealthy Man’s Woodstock

May 4, 2006 by

"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 hat...
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Modern Master

May 4, 2006 by

Modern dance pioneer of the 1950s, Paul Taylor, brought his lively choreography, technically skilled dancers and overall brilliance to a packed Campbell Hall last Wednesday evening. The Paul Taylor Da...
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“Party Over Here, Fuck Y’all Over There”

May 4, 2006 by

At a quarter till eleven, Chief Xcel and The Gift of Gab, the duo responsible for Blackalicious, took the stage to the howling relief of the two thousand or so people lurking in the darkened food cour...
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Neighborhood Shenanigans

May 4, 2006 by

In Taoism, "wu wei" means a stage of complete spontaneity. Local band Silent Wei took this concept - and its namesake - to mean unconstrained impulses. While the music created a few rhythmic ebbs and ...
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Fit for a Queen

May 4, 2006 by

"Kings and Queen" follows the lives of two former lovers over the period of a week. Nora (Emmanuelle Devos) is a successful, but icy, single mother working at a trendy Parisian art gallery. She return...
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Just the Two of Us

April 27, 2006 by

Mavis Staples' personality radiated from the stage to every seat in Campbell Hall this past Tuesday night. Considering the length of time that she has been singing - about half of a century - her voic...
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Open You EARs

April 27, 2006 by

The modern chamber ensemble California EAR Unit graced the halls of Lotte Lehmann last Saturday with a trippy blend of hallucinogenic images, chaotic sound and unadulterated emotion. Cited as "wizards...
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Marching to a Different “Beat”

April 27, 2006 by

Based on the 1978 film "Fingers," directed by James Toback, "The Beat that My Heart Skipped" tells the story of a young man conflicted between a life he is obligated to and one that he wholeheartedly ...
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Pinback @ The Hub

April 27, 2006 by

Rather than dwell on what went wrong with Pinback's Thursday night show in the Hub, I choose to chalk it up to an unappreciative audience and call it a night.
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Silent Hill | Night of the Living Video Game

April 27, 2006 by

The recently released horror movie "Silent Hill" came at the crest of a small media furor. Ever since the film's announcement, the fans of the video game it was adapted from have created an avalanche ...
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The Sentinel | Hail to the Chief

April 27, 2006 by

Suspension of disbelief is often a necessity in appreciating the events of a given film. However, there is only so much disbelief a film can expect its audience to suspend nowadays. Unfortunately, th...
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Islands | Return to the Sea | Equator Records

April 27, 2006 by

It is not everyday that the dead return to life. Yet despite the "surprise" demise of obscure indie rockers the Unicorns in early 2005, band members Nick Diamonds and J'aime Tambour are once again rev...
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NOFX | Wolves in Wolves Clothing | Fat Wreck Chord

April 27, 2006 by

Some kids never grow up. Or, perhaps more accurately, some kids grow up in their politics, but perhaps not so much in their lyrical styling. Such is the case with proverbial punk rockers NOFX on its l...
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Daniel Powter | Daniel Powter | Warner Bros.

April 27, 2006 by

Major music television networks seemed to have taken it upon themselves to give up-and-coming artists a break in the entertainment industry. VH1 junkies know what I'm talking about - the "You Oughta K...
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Pinback’s “Fortress” of Solitude

April 20, 2006 by

Following the release of Pinback's full-length debut, Summer in Abaddon, the almighty twosome of Rob Crow and Zach Smith (formerly known as Armistead Burwell Smith IV) have been thrown aboard the one-...
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