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DJ Fatkid’s Top Five

December 5, 2002 by

Album of the Year, No Seriously, Listen to Me, It's a Lot Better Than You Think - N.E.R.D., In Search Of... Listen to it. It's brilliant, right? No, it's brilliant.
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Alphabet Soup

November 21, 2002 by

Blackalicious further embodies this branch with their 2002 release, Blazing Arrow, and Artsweek catches the group's lyricist, Gift of Gab, as he strolls down Telegraph Ave.
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Star of David Cross

November 21, 2002 by

In his middle age... well, baldness aside, he's still pretty much a young man. This past spring, Cross barnstormed our great nation's rock clubs, delivering his biting routine to the masses.
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Movie Review | I Spy: Beverly Hills Spy

November 21, 2002 by

Owen Wilson has earned himself something of a cult following, and with good reason. He's funny as hell. Wilson costars with Eddie Murphy in "I Spy," an action/comedy movie that's entertaining all the ...
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Snoop Dogg | Paid The Cost To Be Da Bo$$ | Capitol/Priority Missy Elliott | Under Construction | Elektra

November 21, 2002 by

Missy isn't fat, Snoop isn't toasted, and rap has come full circle. Not full circle back to the Grandmaster Flash (or, God forbid, Blondie) days, but full circle to '60s soul.
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David Gray | A New Day at Midnight | RCA

November 21, 2002 by

As a singer/songwriter, Gray's rich, folksy voice blends potently with melodic guitar riffs, piano chords and an interesting play of rhythmic beats, making for a smorgasbord of original and quality so...
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Various Artists | Electro Nouveau | Moonshine

November 21, 2002 by

If you, like any decent human being, hold nothing but fondness for your old Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode and Human League albums, we have good news. Synth-pop is back, and it is fucking good.
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A Joe of All Trades

November 14, 2002 by

You've probably never seen anything quite like the Joe Goode Performance Group - unless of course you were at the sold out, one-night-only performance on Nov. 7 in Campbell Hall.
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White Chocolate

November 14, 2002 by

Though "8 Mile" is indeed worth a good bit of the hype, it's merely a heavily treaded, well-positioned spike used to anchor down Eminem's dominance in mainstream entertainment.
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Bullets, Bowling & Blame

November 14, 2002 by

His youth in Michigan creates plenty of fodder for "Bowling for Columbine," a documentary about gun violence in America. Moore, a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association, questions why our r...
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Badly Drawn Boy | Have You Fed the Fish? | BMG/Artist Direct

November 14, 2002 by

"Have you fed the fish?" inquires the title of Badly Drawn Boy's new release, seemingly reminding the potential purchaser of better things to do than bothering with Badly Drawn Boy's latest.
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Mr. Lif | I Phantom | Def Jux

November 14, 2002 by

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

November 14, 2002 by

"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?
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Artsweek Five-Point Plan: November 14, 2002

November 14, 2002 by

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

November 8, 2002 by

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 four...
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