Artsweek

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

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

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.

May 22, 2003

Hunting For Jazz’s Newest Son

By Oskar Garcia

After emerging with Michael Franti and the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy in 1992, Hunter released his own trio's first jazz album in 1993, Charlie Hunter Trio, under Primus bassist Les Claypool's Prawn Song label.

May 22, 2003

Movie Review | Matrix Reloaded: Captain Neo On Deck

By Steven Ruszczycky

If you had to sum up the Wachowski brothers' "The Matrix: Reloaded" in one word, it would be "cool." If you could use two words, the second would be "unnecessary."

May 22, 2003

Deftones | s/t | Maverick

By Eliav Appelbaum

When bands play hard and heavy, they always take the risk of thrumming out agonizingly slow, as if they were attempting to gorge John Madden's Thanksgiving Day turkey doused in 54 gallons of slop-gravy.

May 22, 2003

Electric Six | Danger! High Voltage | Beggars/XL

By Drew Mackie

"Fire in the disco / Fire in the Taco Bell / Fire in the disco / Fire at the gates of hell." So sings Electric Six frontman Dick Valentine in "Danger! High Voltage" on the album of the same name.

May 22, 2003

KCSB Top 10: May 22, 2003

By Staff

May 15, 2003

ExtravaWHAT?

By Jessica Jardine Staff Writer Drew Mackie Staff Writer

Just because an activity is free does not mean one is obligated to get off one's lazy ass and participate. Take rolling in shards of broken glass in the streets of Isla Vista. It's free! Buuuuut, one should not do it.