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Working With Wonka

February 13, 2003 by

Talking to Mel Stuart is like chancing upon the grandpa you always wished you had. That is, if your grandpa had directed one of the most imaginative and highly whacked out films ever made, "Willy Wonk...
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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days | Forget This Movie in 10 Days

February 13, 2003 by

How to lose a guy in 10 days. Hmmm...more like how to be a raving lunatic, but - granted you look like Kate Hudson and put tampons in your man's closet - totally get away with it. Does she lose the gu...
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The Coup Rally, Riot and Rhyme

February 13, 2003 by

Valentine's Day. What a miraculous consumerist debacle of a holiday, eh? Beyond the swooning Barry White-fest that Friday will likely bring about, this weekend marks an important statement of peace be...
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50 Cent | Get Rich or Die Tryin’ | Interscope

February 13, 2003 by

Gangsta rap drives by... err, I mean, rides again! If you've been longing for the sound of cocking and shooting gats being used as percussion in songs, then grab a four-tay and pick up 50 Cent's debut...
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Massive Attack | 100th Window | Virgin

February 13, 2003 by

There's the kind of music that instantly draws one in. Immediately, you're an uberfan who plays the album on repeat until a roommate threatens to annihilate your sound system. Then there's music that ...
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KCSB Top Ten Week ending 2/13/03

February 13, 2003 by

1) The Sea And Cake | One Bedroom | Thrill Jockey2) Hot Cross | A New Set of Lungs | Level Plane3) Boards of Canada | Twoism | Warp
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Add a Little Spice to Make Things Nice

February 6, 2003 by

Pepper is signed to Volcom Entertainment and consists of Bret Bollinger on bass and vocals, KaleoWassman on guitar and vocals, and Yesod Williams on drums. Their "Kona-dub-rock," as it's been coined, ...
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Tummy Turning Toons

February 6, 2003 by

What noise does a bunny rabbit make as it flies through a running jet engine? What about a beaver wearing construction boots stomping out the flaming carcass of formerly cute she-skunk?
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Failure to Recruit

February 6, 2003 by

Where have all the average films gone, a long time passing? Where have all the B movies gone, a long time ago? They've gone to the shelves of the local video store, every one, there to be rented one n...
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Various Artists | Morvern Callar | Warp Records

February 6, 2003 by

Warp Records may have taken a gamble by releasing a soundtrack to a movie most people won't see, but "Morvern Callar" will be known for this very soundtrack alone. The film is not at all about broken ...
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Johnny Marr + The Healers | Boomslang | BMG

February 6, 2003 by

Johnny Marr was in The Smiths, or, more accurately, that well-dressed band from the '80s fronted by Morrissey. Although never in the limelight after The Smiths dissolved, Marr has played an active rol...
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KCSB Hip Hop Top Ten: week ending 2/6/03

February 6, 2003 by

1) Mr. Lif | I Phantom | Def Jux2) Embedded Music | The Bedford Files | Embedded3) Daedelus | The Quiet Party | Plug Research
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If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Get out of Canada!

January 29, 2003 by

Besides being at the forefront of yet another recent musical movement, the Canadian quartet Hot Hot Heat just might be able to break Artsweek's habit of cracking totally unfounded Canadian jokes on th...
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Do the Allegory Thing

January 29, 2003 by

Look. If you had one shot, or one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted, one moment, would you capture it? Or just let it slip? Or would you package it and sell it as a Spike Lee joint?
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Zwan | Mary Star of the Sea | Reprise

January 29, 2003 by

Corgan, the singer/songwriter/tyrant responsible for catapulting the Smashing Pumpkins to fame and fortune, only to induce the band's self-destruction in 2000, has assembled an all-star lineup for his...
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