Artsweek

February 21, 2002

Zero 7 | Simple Things | Quango/Palm Records

By ADHD

These dudes sound exactly like Air, so much so, that in my mind they are Air, the old Air, the erotic Air that everyone wants to fuck to.

February 21, 2002

Various Artists | The Funky 16 Corners | Stones Throw

By Mr. Bell

Peanut Butter Wolf knows how important it is to keep the funk alive; it's his job as a skilled producer and as founder of Stones Throw Records.

February 21, 2002

Rock Top Ten

By Staff

February 14, 2002

Cyberspace Wars

By Erin James

Morninglory Music closed its Isla Vista store last week. Owner Stan Bernstein told a tale of blight he claims has spread across the nation: "There [is] no way to compete with free downloadable music and CD burners."

February 14, 2002

Breaking Into A (Small) Run

By David Downs

Eggers teased diehard fans with screen shots of pages from his new book, flashing through the blurry and small pages, commenting, "This is when I discovered adjectives. Some of my friends told me that people really like ...

February 14, 2002

I Wouldn’t Exchange My Vagina For All The Tea In China

By Marisa Lagos

UCSB's Women's Ensemble Theater Troupe (W.E.T.T.) presents the monologues Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 7 in honor of V-Day, a worldwide movement to stop violence against women.

February 14, 2002

Collateral Damage: Terror Knows No Plot

By Richard Block

Want bin Laden on a stick? Apparently the Bush administration should just save the money going toward cumbersome military operations and buy Arnie a plane ticket.

February 14, 2002

DJ Enrie | Welcome to the Mix Show | Moonshine

By The Yellow Menace

One of my good friends tells me that she gets the female equivalent of blue balls whenever her desires are not being met – by way of her uterus contracting. After listening to this mix album, I can’t help but...

February 14, 2002

Neil Michael Hagerty | Plays That Good Old Rock and Roll | Drag City

By DJ FatKid

The guitarist, known for his involvement with abrasive blues-punk combo Pussy Galore and subsequent unabashed vein-thumping as half of Royal Trux, returns with his second solo album.

February 14, 2002

3582 | The Living Soul | Hum Drums

By Mr. Bell

>Fat Jon is "35," a versatile producer and member of the crafty 5 Deez. J-Rawls is "82," a distinguished MC and member of the up-and-coming Lone Catalysts. What the hell more could an underground hip hop head ask for?

February 7, 2002

After the Glory

By DJ FatKid

Artsweek Goes on a Santa Barbara Record Crawl in Search of the Quality Music Retailer.

February 7, 2002

Carrot Blows His Top

By Brendan Buhler

In which your Artsweek heroes sap a 33-year-old prop comic's will to live, he tells us to go fuck ourselves and cancels his Santa Barbara performance.

February 7, 2002

Post-Grunge Progeny

By Richard Block

Nirvana's Krist Novoselic and Sublime's Bud Gaugh, teamed up with Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets to play Goleta's The Living Room last Friday as the rock band Eyes Adrift.

February 7, 2002

Half-Assed Attempt

By Patrick Wright

Trying to prove that their finger is perpetually on the pulse of the young adult populous, 30-something marketing spin doctors give you yet another college flick.

February 7, 2002