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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.

October 30, 2002

The Bootzilla Five-Point Plan

By Staff

Point 1: The eerie similarities between "You Know You're Right" and Weekend at Bernie's. Two living guys sponging off a dead guy.

October 24, 2002

Nice car, Porn Star

By Angela Potter

Porn Star is a trendy and controversial clothing line based in Santa Barbara that has its roots in the punk scene. Back in the early '90s, twin brothers Sean and Barret Murphy fronted a band of the same name.

October 24, 2002

All Aboard the Juice Caboose

By Alex Benowitz-Fredricks

Transplant cross-Californian smartasses into a historical celebration of small-town history, and see if they come out earnest and giddy. That's not a rhetorical challenge. They very well may.

October 24, 2002

Movie Review | The Ring: Be kind, rewind.

By Drew Mackie

There's a movie that makes people die after they watch it. No, it's not the latest Jerry Bruckheimer project. It's "The Ring" - once a genuinely creepy Japanese film about urban legends and a cursed video tape, now dress...

October 24, 2002

MC Paul Barman | Paullelujah! | Coup d’Etat

By DJ FatKid

And in late-breaking news, MC Paul Barman has fulfilled his quote-a. Brown University's most prominent rapper brings an album's worth of geeky-cocky Caucasian rhyme, and the results are Ivy League in the worst way.

October 24, 2002

Howie Day | Australia | Epic

By Lara

As a debut album, Australia is a bit on the undercooked and crunchy side of the scale. Day, from Maine, has a vocal range that matches artists such as Bono, Thom Yorke and Jeff Buckley.

October 24, 2002

CD Reivew: Johnny Cash | American IV : The Man Comes Around | Lost Highway CD Reivew: Rhett Miller | The Instigator | Elektra

By Jessica Jardine

Cash has survived thirty-some-odd years in the business and enough addictions to start his own clinic. His newest release, American IV: The Man Comes Around offers up a marvelous assortment of gems, time-tested covers, a...

October 17, 2002

The International Symbol for Surf Movie

By Jessica Jardine

With Saturday night's screening of his first feature-length surfing documentary, "The Far Shore," at I.V. Theater, it appears as though Greg Schell might well be a dreamer with real-world prospects.