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When someone really wants to emit an aura of creepiness, they lurk around, glare ominously, mumble about doom and despair and occasionally make passes at members of the opposite sex in awkward but unu...
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The name Les Nubians reminds me of lesbians. I mean, all you have to do is remove the "Nu" from their name. And look at that cover. Are they gonna kiss?
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Here's an exercise in futility: Imagine a music scene where pop does not exist. Almost as futile: trying to sort out how to describe Supergrass' new album, Life on Other Planets, without listing half ...
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It's hard to imagine hip hop poet/actress/playwright Sarah Jones ever not commanding the spotlight. She's one of those people who dominates conversation, but for all the right reasons.
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Like chicken tikka masala prepared by careless American chefs, Daisy von Scherler Mayer's Hollywood-meets-Bollywood quasi-musical "The Guru" suggests that some things should stay on their respective c...
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Thumb sucking, microphone stand humping and rip-roaring rock 'n' roll: These are all staples of a live show by the Pattern, Lookout! Records' purveyors of punk rock boogie-woogie.
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Packed with distinctively '80s retro beeps, boops and clicks, this album so marvelously finds the pulse on electronica's ever-frigid wrist.
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There is a great reward waiting for anyone who checks their bias at the door and just listens.
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I was brainwashed by the Meanest Man Contest last year. Obsessed, really. My psychotherapist prescribed ragtime music, which was supposed to squander a relapse, should more tracks be manufactured.
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It's not often that bottom-feeding college entertainment journalists receive phone calls from high-powered film studios begging to wine and dine them, screen advance copies of upcoming films and hold ...
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Over the past few years, Sublime has unofficially and posthumously become the house band for I.V. parties. But just because the sounds of Sublime perfectly compliment your keg tappin' and bowl packin'...
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The play, written by Naomi Wallace and directed by UCSB graduate student Kate Yust Al-Shamma, revolves around five characters plagued by the pains of waiting for change to occur in their lives. Each c...
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Too whimsical to be trip hop, too lively to be shoegazer, Baxter Dury's debut album Len Parrot's Memorial Lift is a gentle lo-fi album that could be used medicinally to relieve anxiety. At once psyche...
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There have been so many tribute albums dedicated to the Ramones that it has become tricky to keep track of them all. Though they are now credited as punk pioneers, the musical homage thus far amounts ...
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1) Hot Cross | A New Set of Lungs | Level Plane 2) Orwell | Following Days | Hidden Agenda 3) Hive and Keaton | Plague | Renegade Hardware
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Ride through the bike path without crashing
Find a seat at the red couches on the second floor of the library
Sunrise and sunset dip on the same day
Find parking on Del Playa Drive
Drunk for 24 hours
Bagel crawl
First pick at an Arbor muffin in the morning
Participate in a mosh pit at a band show
Finally talk to their class crush
Get an earlier pass time than their friends in GOLD
Graduate
Successfully walk through I.V. without seeing an old hookup
