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Tsunami Bomb Packs a Punch

February 3, 2005 by

We at UCSB are a fighting breed. We need good fight songs: Who better to provide than Tsunami Bomb? The Petaluma, Calif., superpunks recently talked with Artsweek writer Matt Cappiello before their Ja...
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…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead| Worlds Apart | Interscope

February 3, 2005 by

Of all the bands to produce a sub par, hesitant and muddled album ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead is the last one most would have expected.
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Lights, Camera, Festival

January 27, 2005 by

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) is here again, and everyone involved wants you to know, it's not just for the "celeb" types. There are plenty of films and events geared toward a ...
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Your Mission, If You Choose To Accept It…

January 27, 2005 by

10-10-10 sounds like a perfect score in an ice skating competition, but don't look for any whiney Canadians or Russians here. Formally called Project Rosebud, the new and proper name is the Sotheby's ...
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Sweet and Soulful

January 27, 2005 by

Fusing gospel, jazz, blues, reggae and hip hop among a group of female a cappella singers seems a feat to be accomplished. Now mix with that a historically driven and politically inclined mindset and ...
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Attack on Precinct 13 | Unlucky 13

January 27, 2005 by

Critically, it's always difficult to determine how to handle remakes. If the original was truly brilliant enough to warrant revived attention after the passage of decades, the comparison deck is impos...
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Hotel Rwanda | Check-out Time

January 27, 2005 by

Movies about real events are always a tough sell to an escapist public. Part of the enjoyment of movies is the break they provide from the mundane, and, unless the story is overly dramatic, people are...
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Ani DiFranco | Knuckle Down | Righteous Babe Records

January 27, 2005 by

It is always striking how deftly attuned Ani DiFranco is to her own psychology, as well as her ability to write unreservedly with objective accordance and poetic simplicity.
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Simple Plan | Still Not Getting Any | Attacked by Plastic

January 27, 2005 by

If you feel like you are stuck in the 7th grade these days, Simple Plan's new album, Still Not Getting Any, would be an appropriate choice of music.
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O, Superwoman

January 20, 2005 by

Laurie Anderson, one of the premiere artists, musicians and minds of our time is suspiciously inconspicuous. Her clothes are dark and plain, her hair short and nondescript, her voice soft, low and soo...
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Bringing the Office Home

January 20, 2005 by

"In Good Company" is mediocrity at best. The comedy is too "PG," the acting is lukewarm and the story is too frivolous to really get the audience involved. Writer and director Paul Weitz does a fine j...
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The Hives Bring the Rock ‘n’ Roll to the Happiest Place on Earth

January 20, 2005 by

The Hives are something of the musical equivalent of Muhammad Ali, full of a sort of arrogance and swagger that lets everyone know that they distinguish themselves from the crowd. The Hives had the ch...
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An Evening of Hapa Shorts

January 20, 2005 by

The Hapa Project, which began three years ago, is a collection of about 800 photographs of people with Hapa roots and their answers to the question, "What are you?"
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Heroin? No Thanks I’m Full

January 20, 2005 by

Though entirely barren of religious sanctimony, "Maria Full of Grace" deigns the prayer from which its title derives, designating it as one whispered from the present day underworld of international h...
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Low | The Great Destroyer | SubPop

January 20, 2005 by

Low, a slow core band hailing from the frigid icy tundra known to Westerners as Minnesota, have been around since 1994, formed as a sort of alternative to grunge. To date, they have achieved their big...
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