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November 14, 2002

Mr. Lif | I Phantom | Def Jux

By Mr. Bell

Lif has boldly challenged the post 9/11 political climate, crafting such non-album classics as "Home of the Brave," with timely courage and wisdom unforeseen in today's hip hop.

November 14, 2002

The Kills | Black Rooster EP | Dim Mak Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Machine EP | Touch & Go

By DJ FatKid

"Could the White Stripes be as retro-revolutionary if Jack were the drummer and Meg the singer?" Or, in other words, can Zeppelin-esque cock rock be successfully reconstituted as clit rock?

November 14, 2002

Artsweek Five-Point Plan: November 14, 2002

By Staff

Point 1: Note to DMC and the Rev Run: if you disband the group, then the terrorists have already won.

November 8, 2002

Pinter, Parts, and ‘Pretension’

By A. C. Scordelis

That's right - this humble Artsweek writer somehow, through a series of happy accidents, found himself in the cast of an actual UCSB play, and I'm here to report the life on the other side of the fourth wall ain't all gl...

November 8, 2002

‘Ghost Ship’ of Fools

By Angela Potter, Jessica Jardine, Steven Ruszczycky

Angela, Steven and Jessica all sit nestled around yet another oversized container, this time holding too-salty popcorn, in hopes that this seemingly trite "ghost story" will justify a perfectly good actress like Julianna...

November 8, 2002

What the Funk?

By Alex Benowitz-Fredricks

Though many of you may be accustomed to thinking of Clinton as a technicolor-dreadlocked, extravagant '70s emcee who manages to incorporate the word "funk" into every sentence, the truth is slightly different - but only ...

November 8, 2002

Nirvana | s/t | DGC

By Angela Potter

Dave Grohl has many talents. He plays guitar, sings and writes songs for the Foo Fighters. He drums for the Queens of the Stone Age. And once upon a time, he was in a little group called Nirvana.

November 8, 2002

Tori Amos | Scarlet’s Walk | Epic

By Lana Bradshaw

In her seventh album, Tori travels the open and more mellow road through personal, post-9/11 reflection, ranging from an outcry over America's tragic treatment of Native Americans to feeling a sense of abandonment within...

November 8, 2002

Sigur Ros | ( ) | MCA

By Owen Salisbury

Sigur Ros' new album, "( )," is like an aural injection of Xanax; It leaves you disoriented, dazed and euphoric. Continuing in the idiom created with 1997's "Von" and cemented by 1999"s "Agaetis Byrjun," the semi-untitle...

November 8, 2002

KCSB Top 10 for the Week of November 7, 2002

By Staff

KCSB Top 10 for the Week of November 7, 2002

October 30, 2002

Glory Be, the Funk’s on Artsweek

By Alex Benowitz-Fredricks

What Would Bootsy Do? And more importantly, why should you want to know? When Parliament Funkadelic comes to the Thunderdome on Sunday (tickets are $18 for students, available at the A.S. Ticket Office), there will be on...

October 30, 2002

Movie Review | Punch-Drunk Love: 1-900-DIAL-A-PLOT

By Angela Potter

"Punch-Drunk Love" provides a menagerie of oddities, and fails to make any of them very interesting. Sadly enough, "Punch-Drunk Love" is based on a true story.

October 30, 2002

Picture Perfect

By Staff

World-renowned photojournalist Steve McCurry is no stranger to danger - he once crossed the Pakistan border disguised as a rebel, just to take pictures.

October 30, 2002

Bjork | Bjork’s Greatest Hits | Elektra

By Jessica Jardine

The album is not meant as reminiscences on a dwindling career, nor as a psychoticbumpschool, but rather as a comprehensive slate-cleaning after Vespertine.

October 30, 2002

The Donnas | Spend the Night | Atlantic

By Angela Potter

Lately I've been craving some girl punk, and good girl punk can be hard to find. The female voice isn't necessarily suited to screaming, and "singing punk" is something of an oxymoron. Thank god for the Donnas.

October 30, 2002

The Transplants | s/t | Epitaph Rocket from the Crypt | Live from Camp X-Ray | Vagrant

By Angela Potter

In fact, the Transplants would do well to figure out what genre they want to be and then stick with it. The first song on the album, "Romper Stomper," has a heavier, metal sound.