Artsweek

January 24, 2002

Herbaliser | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Ninja Tune

By Eric Lister

I press play. All of a sudden my hair unlocks and - POP - I'm sporting an afro.

January 24, 2002

Top Ten Instances of the Arts Proving Artistic and Entertainment Proving Entertaining in 2001

By DJ FatKid

Top Ten Instances of the Arts Proving Artistic and Entertainment Proving Entertaining in 2001 By DJ Fatkid, the naked Artsweek Staff Writer 1) Mariah Carey’s Nervous Breakdown “You mean the hot pants, sir?&#8...

January 17, 2002

The Many Faces of Popular Music

By Patrick Wright

Dishwalla was formed in Santa Barbara in 1992 by original members, frontman J.R. Richards, bassist Scot Alexander, guitarist Rodney Browning Cravens and drummer George Pendergast.

January 17, 2002

A Track of the DJ’s

By Brian Walton

DJ Dan, named "America's Most Beloved DJ" by URB Magazine, has played a legendary role in the electronic music scene for over a decade.

January 17, 2002

Orange County: A-peel

By Curtis Brainard

I should have known that something was wrong when I had trouble enticing a friend to see "Orange County," despite the lure of a free ticket.

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.