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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 ...
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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 lit...
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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."
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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.
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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" w...
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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...
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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 b...
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On the album's first track, "Who's Joe?" New Order gains the disdain of rock critics across the land by quoting Jimi Hendrix; asking, "Hey, Joe. What you doing?"
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A werewolf who definitely howled mid make-out
A performative male dressed as Tyler Durden
The mime that somehow made it hot and cool
The ghost of your situationship (no, it’s actually them)
Frat vampire, and your neck will be bleeding
The angel that has definitely never gone out
The literal devil
A prisoner with fake tattoos that you can pretend are real for the night
A sexy cowboy that definitely used the ride line at least four times
A Patrick Bateman who relates a little too much
The witch who asked for your zodiac sign first
A nurse who will leave you needing CPR
