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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

1) April March | Triggers | Sympathy for the Record Industry2) Afro-Mystik | Morphology | Om Records3) Knifehandchop | Rockstopper | Tigerbeat6

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...

June 25, 2003

Willie Nelson | Crazy: The Demo Sessions | Sugar Hill

By Davey Maybe

"If you can't say you love me, say you hate me / ... If you can't undo the wrong, undo the right." They're the words of a young Willie Nelson that make me feel like my emotional heart has never felt a thing.

June 25, 2003

Pirate Info Galore

By Staff

All your pirate dialect needs

June 25, 2003

Dropkick Murphys | blackout | HellCat Records

By Travis Hunter

The Dropkick Murphys came as a huge shock to most punk fans with 1998's Do or Die. For kids who had never heard of the Pogues, Do or Die's mix of rock, folk and Irish music was unprecedented.

June 25, 2003

KCSB Top 20

By Mr. Bell

1) Kissing Tigers | Trebuchet (EP) | You Genius2) The Postal Service | Give Up | Sub Pop3) Hot Cross | Cryonics | Level Plane

May 29, 2003

Let’s Get Digital

By Jessica Jardine

You probably know a film studies major. Perhaps s/he is a roommate or just that guy/girl in class who feels the need to parallel every topic of study to the way Scorsese masterfully saturated the hues in Taxi Driver.

May 29, 2003

Bruce Almighty | Bruce Alrighty, Then!

By Alex Scordelis

Folks, this movie stinks to high heaven.In the past few years, Jim Carrey has been taking on challenging roles (as in "The Truman Show" and "Man on the Moon") in an attempt to win an Oscar. With "Bruce Almighty," Carrey ...

May 29, 2003

Kindergarten and Coltrane

By Jessica Jardine

Mark Cantor may seem like your average kindergarten teacher, having thirty years' experience with the little rugrats, but just throw out a name like "Billie Holiday" or "Dinah Washington," and you'll suddenly be confront...

May 29, 2003

Detroit’s Finest

By David Meza

This Memorial Day weekend, I joined over 700,000 dance music lovers and went to "Movement," Detroit's Electronic Music Festival, also known as the DEMF. I flew in with my best bud on Friday to catch some of the 70-plus l...

May 29, 2003

Ed Harcourt | From Every Sphere | Heavenly

By Owen Salisbury

Ah, singer/songwriters and their quirks. Ed Harcourt, who plays about 39 instruments, wrote all the music, sang all the songs and entirely lacked creative backing on From Every Sphere , is a good example of "quirky" - I ...

May 29, 2003

Led Zeppelin | How the West Was Won | Atlantic

By Eliav Appelbaum

The first Led Zeppelin album added to a music collection is a special memory for everyone. At least, it was for me. Helping my old man arrange books and records at the Agoura Hills Library some years ago, a pile of shodd...

May 29, 2003

KCSB Top 20

By Staff

1) Black Eyes | s/t | Dischord2) Postal Service | Give Up | Sub Pop3) Rjd2 | The Horror | Def Jux

May 22, 2003

The Paulitical Prince

By Mr. Bell

A veteran hip hop visionary of almost two decades, Prince Paul knows this. He knows that critics can digest artistry the wrong way, and that labels can excrete you without a second thought.