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November 7, 2003

America Gets Screwed

By Alex Scordelis

Cross, a hipster/alternative comic who achieved cult fame on HBO's "Mr. Show with Bob and David" in the late nineties, has been slowly seeping into mainstream culture.

November 7, 2003

Ryan Adams | Rock N Roll | Lost Highway

By Monique Sherman

Everyone knows those too-dip-to-be-doing-anything-else-but-be-hip types. They sing duets with Elton John, they're pasted to the sides of buses in Gap commercials, they date gorgeous, indie-film stars named Parker Posey a...

November 7, 2003

Sweet Send-off

By Drew Atkins

The concert had been thrown together haphazardly, but admirers and friends were swift to respond. Elliott Smith, one of our generation's foremost singer/songwriters, had committed suicide Oct. 21, and the gathered musici...

November 7, 2003

Aesop Rock | Bazooka Tooth | Definitive Jux

By Edward Kim

Symptoms of schizophrenia include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and disorganized behavior. With the release of Aesop's newest full-length, a new symptom should be added to the list: rhyming.

November 7, 2003

KCSB Top Ten

By Staff

1) Death Cab For Cutie | Transatlanticism | Barsuk 2) Kissing Tigers | Trebuchet EP | Slowdance 3) The Shins | Chutes Too Narrow | Sub Pop

October 30, 2003

More Questions for Moore

By Daniel Haier

Michael Moore makes a casual entrance into the green room at the Arlington Theatre last Sunday night - minutes before he's to take the stage before a sold-out crowd. Wrapped in a black sport coat over a green polo shirt ...

October 30, 2003

Pearl Jam Brings it Back Flannel Style

By Alex Scordelis

It was an occasion to dust off the ol' flannel shirt and ripped jeans when Seattle rock stalwarts Pearl Jam played the Santa Barbara Bowl on Tuesday night. With an eerie orange and smoke-filled sky providing the backdrop...

October 30, 2003

Burn Britney Burn!

By Drew Mackie

Britney Spears is going to hell. But she didn't get her reservations in Perdition for D-grade musical stylings, her vapid personality or her contamination of American young women with her whorish fashion sense.

October 30, 2003

Scary Movie 3 | 3 Strikes You’re Out

By Glenn Heath

Does anyone really remember "Scary Movie 2?" Any images come to mind? It seems that the first two installments of the horror spoof series actually blend together, in retrospect. Whatever hilarious interludes the Wayans b...

October 30, 2003

The Strokes | Room on Fire | RCA

By Drew Atkins

As far as anti-climactic albums go, Room on Fire delivers the goods. People expecting the Strokes to mature as musicians or hit the infamous sophomore slump will have no cause for celebration here, because there's been n...

October 30, 2003

Grandpaboy | Dead Man Shake | Fat Possum

By Joey Siara

So it's 1959, and I'm in this tired old blues bar in Mississippi. A sickly looking gent stumbles onto the stage nearly spilling his drink on his telecaster. He slurs into the microphone, "I'm Paul Westerberg I mean Gran...

October 30, 2003

KCSB Top Ten

By Mr. Bell

1) The Shins | Chutes Too Narrow | Sub Pop 2) Death Cab For Cutie | Transatlanticism | Barsuk 3) Pretty Girls Make Graves | The New Romance | Matador 4) Stretch Arm Strong | Engage | Tooth & Nail

October 30, 2003

Pumpkins Get Naughty…IV Style

By Kami Shallenberger

Here at Artsweek - make that Artweek (when carving pumpkins, it was decided that the letter "s" is totally out. Deal with it. We're trendsetters) - the usual Halloween festivities were lined up: bobbing for apples, looki...

October 23, 2003

Goodbye Elliott

By Jessica Jardine

Elliott Smith, one of my most cherished singer-songwriters had been found dead by his live-in girlfriend just hours earlier in his L.A. apartment, unleashing a torrent of grief from fans and admirers like myself.

October 23, 2003

Mystic River | A River Worth Travelling

By Glenn Heath

At the beginning of "Mystic River," a devastating new film by Clint Eastwood, two young boys named Jimmy Markum and Sean Devine watch their friend Dave Boyle drive off with a stranger posing as a Boston police officer.

October 23, 2003

The Rapture | Echoes | Universal

By Daniel Haier

The Rapture wants you to dance - but not in any manner that would convince a sober observer of your sanity or muscle control. They want you to pulse all crazy jagged-like with each sporadic, funky guitar riff that strike...