Artsweek

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.

October 17, 2002

Movie Review | The Rules of Attraction: Sex, Drugs, and Dawson?

By Luke Chamberlin Josh Tosney

Welcome to Camden College, the slutty cousin of all party schools. Camden boasts rigorous curricula in ethanol, psychedelic fungi, and chemically induced debauchery.

October 17, 2002

Minimalism to the Max

By Josh Braun

Philip Glass will change your life. He's been called a minimalist and the new Stravinsky, but it's not as easy as all that. His style is about as difficult to pin as a wrestler on a Teflon mat.

October 17, 2002

Jurassic 5 | Power in Numbers | Interscope

By DJ FatKid

Twinkle twinkle hip hop star, how you wonder what you are. L.A. longtime new-old-school crew Jurassic 5 finally returns with a long-awaited second LP, and the results are scattered across the map

October 17, 2002

Various Artists | Vegas Baby | Capitol

By Staff

The newest entry - Vegas Baby - misses the Bellagio gondola this time around. While the lineup is ring-a-ding (Garland! Bennett! Torm!) the disc is mostly one long "Swingers" reference.

October 17, 2002

Artsweek Five-Point Plan: October 17, 2002

By Staff

The new Nirvana video on "Total Request Live." Artsweek in Times Square sez, "Omigod, we totally want to dedicate this to our exes, 'cause we wish they were dead too! Yay!"

October 16, 2002

Jets to Brazil | Perfecting Loneliness | Jade Tree Black Heart Procession | Amore del Tropico | Touch & Go

By Angela Potter

While Jets distracts listeners from its melancholy lyrics by playing upbeat rock music, Procession leaves the listener with no doubt as to its sorrows.