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Thrice | The Artist in the Ambulance | Island

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 ...
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Lost in Translation | We Heart Bill Murray

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 t...
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KCSB Top Ten

1) Chemical Brothers | The Golden Path | Astralwerks2) John Arnold | Neighborhood Science | Ubiquity3) Black Box Recorder | Passionoia | One Little Indian
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XXX

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 comp...
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Media Gadfly

The bastardization of a once earth-shatteringly political rock movement by an entire age group of poseurs totally deserving the label "Generation Z": priceless.
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Chemical Brothers | Singles 93-03 | Astralwerks

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

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 ...
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School of Rock | Teacher! Leave Those Kids Alone!

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...
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Andrew W.K. | The Wolf | Def Jam

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.
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Thursday | War All the Time | Island

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.
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KCSB Top Ten

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

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.
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Spellbound | Do I Sound Like a Musical Robot?

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 swe...
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Willie Nelson | Crazy: The Demo Sessions | Sugar Hill

"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...
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Pirate Info Galore

All your pirate dialect needs
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