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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Welcome to Camden College, the slutty cousin of all party schools. Camden boasts rigorous curricula in ethanol, psychedelic fungi, and chemically induced debauchery.
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Philip Glass will change your life. He's been called a minimalist and the new Stravinsky, but it's not as easy as all that. His style is about as difficult to pin as a wrestler on a Teflon mat.
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Twinkle twinkle hip hop star, how you wonder what you are. L.A. longtime new-old-school crew Jurassic 5 finally returns with a long-awaited second LP, and the results are scattered across the map
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The newest entry - Vegas Baby - misses the Bellagio gondola this time around. While the lineup is ring-a-ding (Garland! Bennett! Torm!) the disc is mostly one long "Swingers" reference.
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The new Nirvana video on "Total Request Live." Artsweek in Times Square sez, "Omigod, we totally want to dedicate this to our exes, 'cause we wish they were dead too! Yay!"
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While Jets distracts listeners from its melancholy lyrics by playing upbeat rock music, Procession leaves the listener with no doubt as to its sorrows.
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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
