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KCSB Top 10 for the Week of November 7, 2002

November 8, 2002 by

KCSB Top 10 for the Week of November 7, 2002
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Glory Be, the Funk’s on Artsweek

October 30, 2002 by

What Would Bootsy Do? And more importantly, why should you want to know? When Parliament Funkadelic comes to the Thunderdome on Sunday (tickets are $18 for students, available at the A.S. Ticket Offic...
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Movie Review | Punch-Drunk Love: 1-900-DIAL-A-PLOT

October 30, 2002 by

"Punch-Drunk Love" provides a menagerie of oddities, and fails to make any of them very interesting. Sadly enough, "Punch-Drunk Love" is based on a true story.
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Picture Perfect

October 30, 2002 by

World-renowned photojournalist Steve McCurry is no stranger to danger - he once crossed the Pakistan border disguised as a rebel, just to take pictures.
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Bjork | Bjork’s Greatest Hits | Elektra

October 30, 2002 by

The album is not meant as reminiscences on a dwindling career, nor as a psychoticbumpschool, but rather as a comprehensive slate-cleaning after Vespertine.
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The Donnas | Spend the Night | Atlantic

October 30, 2002 by

Lately I've been craving some girl punk, and good girl punk can be hard to find. The female voice isn't necessarily suited to screaming, and "singing punk" is something of an oxymoron. Thank god for t...
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The Transplants | s/t | Epitaph Rocket from the Crypt | Live from Camp X-Ray | Vagrant

October 30, 2002 by

In fact, the Transplants would do well to figure out what genre they want to be and then stick with it. The first song on the album, "Romper Stomper," has a heavier, metal sound.
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The Bootzilla Five-Point Plan

October 30, 2002 by

Point 1: The eerie similarities between "You Know You're Right" and Weekend at Bernie's. Two living guys sponging off a dead guy.
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Nice car, Porn Star

October 24, 2002 by

Porn Star is a trendy and controversial clothing line based in Santa Barbara that has its roots in the punk scene. Back in the early '90s, twin brothers Sean and Barret Murphy fronted a band of the sa...
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All Aboard the Juice Caboose

October 24, 2002 by

Transplant cross-Californian smartasses into a historical celebration of small-town history, and see if they come out earnest and giddy. That's not a rhetorical challenge. They very well may.
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Movie Review | The Ring: Be kind, rewind.

October 24, 2002 by

There's a movie that makes people die after they watch it. No, it's not the latest Jerry Bruckheimer project. It's "The Ring" - once a genuinely creepy Japanese film about urban legends and a cursed v...
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MC Paul Barman | Paullelujah! | Coup d’Etat

October 24, 2002 by

And in late-breaking news, MC Paul Barman has fulfilled his quote-a. Brown University's most prominent rapper brings an album's worth of geeky-cocky Caucasian rhyme, and the results are Ivy League in ...
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Howie Day | Australia | Epic

October 24, 2002 by

As a debut album, Australia is a bit on the undercooked and crunchy side of the scale. Day, from Maine, has a vocal range that matches artists such as Bono, Thom Yorke and Jeff Buckley.
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CD Reivew: Johnny Cash | American IV : The Man Comes Around | Lost Highway CD Reivew: Rhett Miller | The Instigator | Elektra

October 24, 2002 by

Cash has survived thirty-some-odd years in the business and enough addictions to start his own clinic. His newest release, American IV: The Man Comes Around offers up a marvelous assortment of gems, t...
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The International Symbol for Surf Movie

October 17, 2002 by

With Saturday night's screening of his first feature-length surfing documentary, "The Far Shore," at I.V. Theater, it appears as though Greg Schell might well be a dreamer with real-world prospects.
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