Artsweek

April 21, 2005

The Amittyville Horror | The Horror, The Horror

By Colin Marshall

Out of all possible film subgenres, the horror movie remake is almost certainly the least promising. History has shown that two approaches traditionally work, or, given the context, work as well as can reasonably be expe...

April 21, 2005

Live: 04-15-05: Pillowfight, Concrete Straight Jacket, Disconnect & End on End

By Rebecca Riley

After passing by the merchandise table stocked with vegan cookies and DIY 'zines, the first thing that hits the olfactory receptors is the smell: sweat. Then the noise: loud, disjointed, primal and, at times, pretty damn...

April 21, 2005

Dust to Glory | A Surf Movie about Off-Road Racing

By Harrison Coltun

Imagine yourself sitting atop a motorcycle, senses fried over the past 14 hours of straight racing. You are burning down some unnamed Mexican beach at 110 miles per hour when your vision focuses on a rock that seems to b...

April 21, 2005

A Mountain of Talent

By Jonathan Morin

Ever thought about seducing some blue turtles? Well, the South Lake Tahoe-based band, Blue Turtle Seduction certainly has. When I first heard a band with this name was playing at my house, I was a little skeptical as to ...

April 21, 2005

Mariah Carey | The Emancipation of Mimi | Island Records

By Amita Chollate

What can be said of the new Mariah Carey album The Emancipation of Mimi? Nothing positive. All of Carey's albums have become progressively more horrible than each previous one.

April 21, 2005

Garbage | Bleed Like Me | Geffen

By Jory Dominguez

Having followed Garbage since it's inception in 1993, it pains me to submit what you are about to read. Disappointingly, Bleed Like Me finds the band still heavily anesthetized from the medication of the imposed (recentl...

April 21, 2005

Nine Inch Nails | With Teeth | Interscope

By Matt Cappiello

On the first track of the new Nine Inch Nails album, With Teeth, Trent Reznor utters the words, "Why do you get all the love in the world?" in a blues-tinted falsetto.

April 14, 2005

“Hey, Carrot Juice!”

By Aaron Marienthal

Less than a week after the release of the much-anticipated debut of Louis XIV's first full-length album, The Best Little Secrets Are Kept, the group made its first appearance in Santa Barbara on April 3 at a packed Velve...

April 14, 2005

Joshua Redman Live @ Capbell Hall

By David Landes

Is Josh Redman creating great music that is universally relevant to all ages? Definitely. Redman leads the SFJAZZ Collective, an all-star octet of some of the best jazz musicians in the world.

April 14, 2005

Penny for Your Thoughts

By Patrick Brogan

New York Times columnist, feminist and award-winning author Barbara Ehrenreich gave an informative and entertaining lecture about her best-selling book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.

April 14, 2005

Fever Pitch | Getting to Third Base

By Bradley Vargas

Seeing as how the Red Sox were no longer professional sports' most-losing franchise, they were forced to add several scenes to their half-baseball, half-chick-flick "Fever Pitch."

April 14, 2005

Going APE

By Mark Batalla

The Alternative Press Expo (APE) is an annual showcase for small press and self-published comics, minicomics, and zines.

April 14, 2005

Get Lost!!!

By Aaron Small

A mishmash of anecdotes, East Coast-style songs and muddled Platonic philosophy forms the blandish meat of the Civilians' drama "Gone Missing," written and directed by Steven Cosson.

April 14, 2005

Are You My Daddy?

By Harrison Coltun

Since the days of the Babylonian empire there have been whores. The "whores" in question are not your smelly roommates who ate your leftover Domino's pizza, but the traditional "ladies of the night" who deal in sex.

April 14, 2005

The Kills | No Wow | Rough Trade/RCA

By Jory Dominguez

For the Kills, executing their minimalist sonic blitz with nothing more than a guitar, a drum machine and a lyrically unflinching fuck-you resolve is all in a day's work, and however miscalculated the formula might seem,...

April 14, 2005

Kaiser Chiefs | Employment | Universal

By Brad Vargyas

When you hear the first measures of "Everyday I Love You Less and Less" off of the Kaiser Chiefs' Employment, don't be fooled. You haven't accidentally put in a Roxy Music CD, nor have you magically been transported back...