Artsweek

October 9, 2003

Mobile Dwelling Units Get High Tek

By Kami Shallenberger

If you have been anywhere remotely close to the UCen lately, you've noticed the large, red metal object resembling a garbage crate next to the University Art Museum. The first few weeks of school, Artsweek passed by Big ...

October 9, 2003

Taking on Tubby

By Jessica Jardine

A few years back, Travis Keller and his partner in crime, Aaron North, took a good, hard look at what record labels were churning out, (namely nu metal, manufactured punk and jock rap) and decided to spearhead a tiny rev...

October 9, 2003

David Bowie | Reality | ISO/Columbia

By Alex Scordelis

So David Bowie has just released a new CD entitled Reality. Guess what? The reality revealed on this album is that Bowie has slowly transformed from the pioneering rock 'n' roll producer and performer of the 1970s into a...

October 9, 2003

Thrice | The Artist in the Ambulance | Island

By Daniel Haier

If anyone needs proof that master planned communities with perfect landscaping and endless fields of track housing can rear teenagers who aren't void of emotions or souls, Irvine's hardcore punk rock outfit Thrice makes ...

October 9, 2003

Lost in Translation | We Heart Bill Murray

By Brenna Boyce

In her second full-length feature, Sofia Coppola, daughter of famed director Francis Ford Coppola, takes on the roles of writer, director and co-producer. The result of this multi-tasking is some of the most lifelike cha...

October 9, 2003

KCSB Top Ten

By Mr. Bell

October 2, 2003

XXX

By Jessica Jardine

That's right, pornography has somehow magically jumped off the safe havens of computer screens and DVD players into the living room and bathroom floors of our very own Isla Vista. Smut-happy porn companies have loaded th...

October 2, 2003

Media Gadfly

By Drew Mackie

The bastardization of a once earth-shatteringly political rock movement by an entire age group of poseurs totally deserving the label "Generation Z": priceless.

October 2, 2003

Chemical Brothers | Singles 93-03 | Astralwerks

By Cole Burbidge

Spanning a decade and crossing several genres, the Chemical Brothers have transformed from the subterranean underground's acid house DJs to being household names.

October 2, 2003

Peaches | Fatherfucker | XL Recordings

By Travis Hunter

Girls aren't supposed to talk like this. But Peaches doesn't really care about your sex. Not even if you're having sex with her. She doesn't care about your sex as long as you're down for some freaky sex.

October 2, 2003

School of Rock | Teacher! Leave Those Kids Alone!

By Alex Scordelis

Are you ready to rawk? Are you prepared to eat the beat? Are you ready to laugh so hard that your face feels like it might fall off? If you answered these questions with a resounding "Hell yeah!" then you are in luck.

October 2, 2003

Andrew W.K. | The Wolf | Def Jam

By Brenna Boyce

I am not your typical metal fan. In fact, I can barely name you five metal bands, none of which I actually like. It was to my great surprise, then, that I was recently introduced to Andrew W.K.

October 2, 2003

Thursday | War All the Time | Island

By Greta Pooser

Finally after two years, the much-anticipated third full-length album from post indie rockers, Thursday, titled War All the Time has hit record store shelves.

October 2, 2003

KCSB Top Ten

By Mr. Bell

June 25, 2003

Ahoy, Matey!

By Jessica Jardine

In just two weeks, the world will prepare to meet the latest cinematic creation from Gore Verbinski, director of the "The Ring," and be deluged with the world of the pirate.

June 25, 2003

Spellbound | Do I Sound Like a Musical Robot?

By Jessica Jardine

Having been blessed with the two parts of the anti-cool holy trinity - chubby with acne (I was spared braces) - junior high remains a desolate wasteland of awkward gym changing room encounters and sweaty Boys to Men slow...