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Moving Units is one band trying quite hard to learn everything they can. Having opened shows for the holy disco-punk trinity of the Rapture, Hot Hot Heat and Radio 4, they debut four songs (a prelude ...
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The only thing worse than seeing a predictable, paint-by-numbers action movie is seeing it and walking out confused. The audience expects "boom!" "bang!" "pow!" and some gratuitous plot involving some...
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What has the average 12-year-old accomplished? Maybe making the club soccer team? Winning a few spelling bee trophies? Starring as Maria in "West Side Story"?
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Independent films have always had to rely on the strength of their stories to compete with Hollywood blockbusters. These smaller films have the advantage of being able to take more risks, experimentin...
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"Like Herbie Hancock with an MPC" is how the Addict Merchants flatter themselves. And with good reason. The Merchants have become a live hip hop sensation, already rocking a few enthusiastic Santa Bar...
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Boy Sets Fire exhibits a teeming tempest of energy, emotion and raw intensity that swirls around like a monsoon-blizzard-hurricane-sandstorm all rolled into one hell of a force of nature. Unfortunatel...
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The Fruit Bats spawn from the self-replicating record factory, Sub Pop. Mouthfuls is their second release that screams simplicity with lead singer Eric Johnson's gentle voice and lazy guitar putting t...
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With bands like Blink-182 and Good Charlotte pumping out pop-punk like someone after a bad encounter with Jack in the Box, it's refreshing to know that after their last release five years ago, Lagwago...
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1) Hot Cross | A New Set of Lungs | Level Plane2) Aphex Twin | 26 Mixes for Cash | Warp3) Candies | Dense Waves Make Your Eyes Wider | Suiteside
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While the majority of Gauchos packed into clubs with titles like "La Boom" and "Papas and Beer" over Spring Break, Artsweek took a turn for all things geeky and visited every over-the-top theater majo...
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ust think of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll thrown in with some existential burden and a cherry topping of conservatism and you have the makings of the new film "Laurel Canyon."
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Elephant, the latest offering from the White Stripes, is one of the sweetest products to come out of Detroit since Ford Mustangs started rolling off the assembly lines in 1964.
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1. Apparently, a hipster uses words like "deck" (meaning cool) and "fin" (meaning uncool). Artsweek has yet to pass the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" phase of "cowabunga" and "totally tubular, dude."
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There is nothing more attractive than an intelligent, socially conscious hip hop head. Examples vary by sexual preference, but T-Love suits my fancy just fine.
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Every once in a while, a band will come along that will make you think about feelings, whether by screaming and rapping about them over pseudo-metal beats or singing them over radio-friendly guitar ri...
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“Greased Lightnin’” from “Grease”
Sunset waltz from “La La Land”
“Thriller” by Michael Jackson
Frat flick
“Macarena” by Los Del Río
“Gangnam Style” by PSY
“Swan Lake” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Renegade
“Cell Block Tango” from “Chicago”
“The Last Text” from “Dance Moms”
Flossing
All of “Hamilton”
