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Time To Grow Up

May 11, 2006 by

It was a couple of French guys who invented modern movies, and the French have been making films ever since. In fact, Frenchmen have been making films for so long that they give out the most important...
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NOFX- Wolves in Wolves Clothing

May 11, 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.
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Daniel Powter- Daniel Powter

May 11, 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.
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Cd Review: Ball Hog – ONE

May 11, 2006 by

Both goofy and rabble rousing at times, Ball Hog's first album, ONE, gives an accurate glimpse of the band's live performances, as well as providing a vessel for its political views.
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Hot Desert Action

May 4, 2006 by , , and

There's nothing like two days of nonstop stage-hopping in 95-degree heat to satiate the need for a good live show. Once again, the big money masterminds behind the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Fest...
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Notes on Coachella 2006

May 4, 2006 by

Formed by outstretching one's index and pinky fingers while curling the other three, metal horns - also referred to by your God-fearing grandmother as "devil horns" - used to symbolize a concertgoer's...
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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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