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Aesop Rock | Bazooka Tooth | Definitive Jux

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: r...
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KCSB Top Ten

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

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...
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Pearl Jam Brings it Back Flannel Style

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 pr...
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Burn Britney Burn!

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 fash...
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Scary Movie 3 | 3 Strikes You’re Out

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 int...
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The Strokes | Room on Fire | RCA

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, be...
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Grandpaboy | Dead Man Shake | Fat Possum

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 Wes...
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KCSB Top Ten

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
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Pumpkins Get Naughty…IV Style

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: bobbi...
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Goodbye Elliott

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 ...
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Mystic River | A River Worth Travelling

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 Bost...
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The Rapture | Echoes | Universal

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 gui...
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The Shins | Chutes Too Narrow | Sub Pop

From what I understand, Albuquerque, N.M. is not famous for churning out fabulous indie rock acts. In fact, of my New Mexican acquaintances, metal seems to be the genre of choice for braving the dusty...
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Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros | Streetcore | Epitaph

When Joe Strummer led The Clash to glory in the late '70s, the group's originality so shocked the music world that people actually lumped the band in the same group as the Sex Pistols.
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