Artsweek

September 26, 2002

Fishing with Pete: HARSHING YOUR YELLOW

By Peter Conover

I've been reading Henry Miller. If you're bumming around Europe with a gray Parisian rain dancing a tattoo on your window, this is the guy to read.

September 26, 2002

Hot Hot Heat | Make Up the Breakdown | Sub Pop OK Go | s/t | Capitol

By DJ FatKid

As we put some distance between our MP3'd, puffy-jacketed, fo-shizzeling fin-de-siecle society and the one that, less than 20 years ago, was living in constant fear of nuclear obliteration, it becomes easier to romantici...

September 26, 2002

CD Reivew: The Pattern | Real Feelness | Lookout! Records

By A. C. Scordelis

Put your dancing shoes on your feet and The Pattern's Real Feelness on your stereo, because it's time to cut a rug. Expectations are high for this Oakland, CA quintet's full-length debut, and they live up to the hype.

September 26, 2002

Various Artists | Urban Renewal Program | Chocolate Industries

By Mr. Bell

The Chocolate Industries label is hip-hop's answer to itself. Possibly the freshest compilation in recent memory, Urban Renewal Program is almost daunting with dopeness.

September 20, 2002

forceful and FACELESS

By Jessica Jardine

If you're anxiously searching for open-shirted, pouty-lipped rock star photos to paste all over your notebook, dredg is the wrong act for you. These four Bay Area art-rock boys seem faceless even as they stand poised to ...

September 20, 2002

Moive Review: Swimfan: DOGPADDLE DEVOTEE

By Angela Potter

A dark, empty theater, popcorn, hushed silence - the perfect atmosphere for a scary movie. Instead, however, I got "Swimfan." The plot line is simple - at times, painfully so.

September 20, 2002

3-Count Me In

By DJ FatKid

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) comes to Santa Barbara for the first time in 15 years. Actually, for the first time ever; all prior wrestling engagement were actually booked by the World Wildlife Fund.

September 20, 2002

Queens of the Stone Age | Songs for the Deaf | Interscope

By A. C. Scordelis

They should have called the album Songs That Will Make You Go Deaf, because it is one of the most inspired collections of loud, aggressive hard rock songs to come out in recent years.

September 20, 2002

Pulp | We Love Life | Rough Trade

By Erin James

Pulp, in its various incarnations, has offered anthems for the downtrodden since 1978. Different Class, in 1995, is unquestionably one of the finest albums of the decade.

September 20, 2002

Funkadelic | Hardcore Jollies, One Nation Under a Groove, Uncle Jam Wants You, The Electric Spanking of War Babies | Priority/Capitol

By DJ FatKid

George Clinton's Funkadelic provided the Funk to Parliament's P, and, despite the promiscuous member-swapping between the two groups, Funkadelic kept its sound distinct from that of the other Funk Mob operations.

September 20, 2002

Artsweek’s Five-Point Plan for 9.20.02

By Staff

Artsweek's Five-Point Plan for 9.20.02

September 20, 2002

Book Review: Tortilla Curtain: The Boyle Bridge

By Peter Conover

Boyle's novel could be our very own homespun (Boyle lives in Montecito) "Grapes of Wrath." The premise is simple: The immigrant worker collides with the contemporary white suburbanite.

August 28, 2002

Making a Minor Scene

By Angela Potter, DJ FatKid

Santa Barbara's a rough town. It's not violent, improverished or even badly paved. But it is tough on the under-21 crowd. Never fear, Artsweek is here. We've handpicked a panel of experts in assorted recreational fields,...

August 28, 2002

Movie Review | Simone : B0r1ng M0v1e

By Jessica Staff Writer

Writer/director Andrew Niccol's new release, "S1m0ne," fails to decide just where moral lessons end and satire begins.

August 28, 2002

The Vines | Highly Evolved | Capitol

By A. C. Scordelis

If you think rock 'n' roll is a thing of the past, then think again, brother. Australian newcomers The Vines are one of many bands to embody the overdue rock revival, joining such acts as The Strokes, The White Stripes a...

June 26, 2002

Defining the Destruction

By Angela Potter

Despite an imperfect PA system and lead singer Jason Navarro barely having a voice, The Suicide Machines rocked the Living Room on Tuesday, June 18. As guitar player Daniel Lukacinsky said, "This is punk rock and we don'...