Artsweek

April 24, 2002

Wayne | Music on Plastic | TVT

By Collin Mitchell

Like the reviews and profiles say, their music is "emotional" and "powerful," but Wayne fails to consistently express these elements in any sort of depth.

April 24, 2002

J-Live | All of the Above | Coup d’

By Mr. Bell

Whether it's the "jiggy," beats mixed with bearable lyrics or meaningless,annoying choruses mixed with bearable beats, All of the Above delivers no more than five good cuts.

April 18, 2002

Like Moth to the Fame

By Erin James

You can tell a lot about a record label's faith in its band by the size of its tour bus. Virgin clearly has high hopes for its recent signee, Moth.

April 18, 2002

Bathtub Film Festival

By David Downs

I Love Adolph Hilter co-producer Matt Wienglass says his 4/20 showing of seven experimental films in I.V. Theater has a drug theme corresponding with the worldwide smoke-out, but it's in no way limited to dopes.

April 18, 2002

Aude Man in the House

By Brian Walton

Techno and jungle beat freaks of SB, put your dancing shoes on. High-powered digital guru and L.A.-native Dave Aude is set to pound Velvet Jones tonight like a blood-soaked tom-tom.

April 18, 2002

Y Tu Mama Tambien: Finalmente! Cine Caliente

By Marie Lopez

Here is a film that is intelligent, insightful, surprising, funny, and burningly sexy all in one; a film that's frank realism and audacity are rarely found in American movies.

April 18, 2002

Blackalicious | Blazing Arrow | MCA

By David Downs

Blackalicious’ only crime on Blazing Arrow is that its CD is too fucking good. The rhymes set the ears a-tingle and the frontal lobes afire. The beats blur genres and demand bass knobs turned to the left. Most kids...

April 18, 2002

Sage Francis | Personal Journals | Anticon

By Lee Shaker

Personal Journals is Sage Francis’ long-awaited first LP, complete with “journal entries” explaining the conception of each track and written apologies to all of his ex-girlfriends. This is a true conce...

April 18, 2002

Fat Jon the Ample Soul Physician | Wave Motion | Mush Records

By Mr. Bell

When I listen to music, I see things – I see visions of people, exotic settings and situations. If a picture tells a thousand words, and I only have 220 left to tell you about Wave Motion, I’m worried you won...

April 18, 2002

Hip Hop Top Ten

By Quinn Chaloeicheep

April 11, 2002

Staging A Devolution

By Erin James

The Gorillaz I would endure almost any indignity. The group's live show is a fundamentally arcane creature, and I made the drive down to Los Angeles on March 9, keen to know it more intimately.

April 11, 2002

My Vagina Is Angry And It Needs To Talk

By David Downs

UCSB's allegedly liberal-minded student body could use a good, hard kick to the cunt, and three professional Vagina Monologists have arrived with their boots on.

April 11, 2002

Big Trouble: Ahead Of The Crass

By Dan Gutierrez

The director of "Get Shorty" has produced a highly stylized and devilishly entertaining movie in the Hollywood tradition of bumbling ex-cons and cops, confused professionals and hallucinogen-squirting toads.

April 11, 2002

Rye Coalition | On Top | Tiger Style

By DJ FatKid

Returning after three years of silence with a third album, the band stands by its old habit of changing membership every album as well as its snide regard for '70s hard rock, and then goes full bore.

April 11, 2002

Bats & Mice | Believe It Mammals | Lovitt

By DJ FatKid

I feel cleansed, fresh, wonderful. But let me start at the beginning. Last year, a curiously simple little brown-fronted CD-EP landed in the review pile, from a band called Bats & Mice.

April 11, 2002

Reverend Horton Heat | Lucky 7 | Artemis

By The Yellow Menace

Before you get any Catholic jokes in your dirty minds, I have an admission to make: Reverend Horton Heat took my psychobilly cherry in the back of the House of Blues on Sunset in 1996.