Artsweek
Singer-songwriters are making a comeback, and it's about time. A welcome change from the manufactured pop icons who have dominated the charts over the last couple of years, this is a breed of artist t...
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I must admit, I was a bit skeptical of Arie's staying power after the barrage of neo-soul-phytes that followed in her footsteps in the last couple of years.
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Think old funk, the raw beats of early disco and sassy hip-hop combining to appeal to the spastic brand of indie kid. Stuff that commands booty shaking and attitude.
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Top Ten Rock Plays week ending 10.12.02 courtesy Randy at KCSB-FM 91.9
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These mismatched activists originally came together in hopes of creating music in ways too innovative for the mainstream industry. So what genre does INC fall into?
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I don't quite feel like James Bond, but fuck him. I'm undercover in the seedy heart of Santa Barbara's literary scene, talking to this Craig Clevenger guy.
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And the Oscar goes to ... Heath Ledger, "The Four Feathers." Yes, you read that correctly, and no, I'm not kidding. In fact, I'm also predicting that this movie will walk away with Best Picture.
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With the recent release of Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head and Haven's Between the Senses, Britpop is experiencing a renaissance of sorts on this side of the Atlantic.
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There's really only one word that can properly describe the latest release from Colorado new age hippies The String Cheese Incident, and it rarely escapes the lips of anyone who isn't stoned.
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Niggaz With Attitude (N.W.A.) rips, backpedals, reverses field and touches back onto a ghetto blaster near you with the astounding and turbulent reissue of Straight Outta Compton.
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Dear Janeane Garofalo, I'm sure you've gotten this kind of thing before: a letter that walks the line between being a love letter and a sort of missive of encouragement. But now it's Artsweek's turn.
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I've been reading Henry Miller. If you're bumming around Europe with a gray Parisian rain dancing a tattoo on your window, this is the guy to read.
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As we put some distance between our MP3'd, puffy-jacketed, fo-shizzeling fin-de-siecle society and the one that, less than 20 years ago, was living in constant fear of nuclear obliteration, it becomes...
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Put your dancing shoes on your feet and The Pattern's Real Feelness on your stereo, because it's time to cut a rug. Expectations are high for this Oakland, CA quintet's full-length debut, and they liv...
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The Chocolate Industries label is hip-hop's answer to itself. Possibly the freshest compilation in recent memory, Urban Renewal Program is almost daunting with dopeness.
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Ends on ‘good terms’ but is blocked on Instagram
Slow fade
Ghosting them on a random Monday
“It’s not you, it’s me”
Drunk Uber “we need to talk” voice memo
Presents a notes app pros and cons list
Asks to still be friends
Drops their stuff off, never speaks to them again
Texts “this isn’t working” then posts from another country
“It’s not me, it’s you”
Tells them they need to focus on Econ 10A
Delivers a hand-written letter to their mom
