Artsweek

January 17, 2002

Safari to the Rock ‘n’ Roll Jungle

By Molly Hahn

There is no doubt that the powerhouse funk of local band Blue Room continues to reach higher levels of almighty musical tightness.

January 17, 2002

Shannon McNally | Jukebox Sparrows | Capitol

By Sarah Kent

The newest in a line of female genre-blending artists like Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt, McNally's songs are country with a soulful rock attitude.

January 17, 2002

Atombombpocketknife | God Save the ABPK | Southern

By DJ FatKid

Being a fan of Atombombpocketknife guitarist Justin Sinkovich's old ensemble Thumbnail, I was pretty amped to get my grubby hams on this release.

January 17, 2002

Jel | 10 Seconds | Mush Records

By Mr. Bell

Using an SP-1200, the classic production tool of old school legends (which creates dirty, raw-sounding samples), Jel gives birth to 10 Seconds - an album that, in my way of looking at it, parallels the first 23 years of ...

January 17, 2002

Lostprophets | The Fake Sound of Progress | Columbia

By Jessica Jardine

Hailing from Wales, these six, adolescent-looking nu-metallers attempt to mix rock with piano sounds and turntable effects to produce what I imagine is supposed to be "new and innovative."

January 10, 2002

More Than the Sum of its Parts

By Erin James

Come on, it wasn't that long ago that when you looked at a large packing box, instead of seeing trash you saw a spaceship, a racecar or maybe even a dragon.

January 10, 2002

Digging Up the Dirt

By DJ FatKid

Your hometown can leap out and grab you at the oddest of times. In this case, Isla Vista leapt out of the carpet backstage at the El Rey during the penultimate Murder City Devils' Los Angeles gig.

January 10, 2002

Movie Review: A Beautiful Mind: A Terrible Thing To Lose

By Patrick Wright

Spanning some 40 years, from post-World War II through the early '90s, "A Beautiful Mind" is a sugar-coated bio-pic/period piece about the mental anguish of theoretical mathematician John Nash (Russell Crowe).

January 10, 2002

Movie Review: The Wide Blue Road: No Man Is an Island

By Josh Braun

"The Wide Blue Road" is a film about a town of fishermen in Italy in the midst of a post-World War II economic slump

January 10, 2002

The Sleeper Must Awaken

By Animatronic Castro

Hollywood loves Americans for the same reason the rest of the world hates us: We are fast food-eating, carbonated beverage-drinking, pleasure-seeking layabouts with little ambition other than to maintain bodily function.

January 10, 2002

Kid Rock | Cocky | Atlantic

By Eric Lister

Who is that substitute pimp charging out of the Motor City with an army of what appears to be moonshine-slammin' Metallica fans? It's Kid Rock and the Twisted Brown Trucker Band.

January 10, 2002

Champagne Kiss | Dancing in the Pockets of Thieves | Troubleman Unlimited

By DJ FatKid

Champagne Kiss is the latest offering from Michelle Maskovich and Russell White, the motivating forces behind Moog-happy bands The Shortwave Channel and Camera Obscura.

January 10, 2002

Laurie Anderson | Life on a String | Nonesuch

By Sarah Kent

Since 1981, Laurie Anderson has been one of the biggest avant-garde spoken word and experimental rock singers/songwriters to hit the mainstream American music scene.

January 10, 2002

Various Artists | Sundays, Volume 1 | Nude Recordings

By Mr. Bell

The people at Nude Recordings have put together a compilation that made me wet my bed. Last night I dreamt I was stranded on a deserted island, making love to my dream girl.

January 10, 2002

Various Artists | Orange County Soundtrack | Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax

By Richard Block

Orange County, the county, is nondescript. It's somewhere you pass through on your way to somewhere more exciting. Often pleasant, but not much to challenge or offend you.

November 29, 2001

Out of the Forest, into the Jungle

By Erin James

The Sherwood Players, an independent student-run theater group on campus, takes a look at the Vietnam War through the eyes of men who were there in their latest production.