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Cyberspace Wars

February 14, 2002 by

Morninglory Music closed its Isla Vista store last week. Owner Stan Bernstein told a tale of blight he claims has spread across the nation: "There [is] no way to compete with free downloadable music a...
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Breaking Into A (Small) Run

February 14, 2002 by

Eggers teased diehard fans with screen shots of pages from his new book, flashing through the blurry and small pages, commenting, "This is when I discovered adjectives. Some of my friends told me that...
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I Wouldn’t Exchange My Vagina For All The Tea In China

February 14, 2002 by

UCSB's Women's Ensemble Theater Troupe (W.E.T.T.) presents the monologues Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 7 in honor of V-Day, a worldwide movement to stop violence against women.
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Collateral Damage: Terror Knows No Plot

February 14, 2002 by

Want bin Laden on a stick? Apparently the Bush administration should just save the money going toward cumbersome military operations and buy Arnie a plane ticket.
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DJ Enrie | Welcome to the Mix Show | Moonshine

February 14, 2002 by

One of my good friends tells me that she gets the female equivalent of blue balls whenever her desires are not being met – by way of her uterus contracting. After listening to this mix album, I ...
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Neil Michael Hagerty | Plays That Good Old Rock and Roll | Drag City

February 14, 2002 by

The guitarist, known for his involvement with abrasive blues-punk combo Pussy Galore and subsequent unabashed vein-thumping as half of Royal Trux, returns with his second solo album.
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3582 | The Living Soul | Hum Drums

February 14, 2002 by

>Fat Jon is "35," a versatile producer and member of the crafty 5 Deez. J-Rawls is "82," a distinguished MC and member of the up-and-coming Lone Catalysts. What the hell more could an underground hip ...
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After the Glory

February 7, 2002 by

Artsweek Goes on a Santa Barbara Record Crawl in Search of the Quality Music Retailer.
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Carrot Blows His Top

February 7, 2002 by

In which your Artsweek heroes sap a 33-year-old prop comic's will to live, he tells us to go fuck ourselves and cancels his Santa Barbara performance.
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Post-Grunge Progeny

February 7, 2002 by

Nirvana's Krist Novoselic and Sublime's Bud Gaugh, teamed up with Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets to play Goleta's The Living Room last Friday as the rock band Eyes Adrift.
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Half-Assed Attempt

February 7, 2002 by

Trying to prove that their finger is perpetually on the pulse of the young adult populous, 30-something marketing spin doctors give you yet another college flick.
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The Chemical Brothers | Come With Us | Astralwerks

February 7, 2002 by

After secluding themselves in a south London studio for 18 months, the boys are back with an album that may actually merit its own hype.
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Damien Jurado | I Break Chairs | Sub Pop

February 7, 2002 by

A little country, a little rock 'n' roll, I Break Chairs is a solid collection of guitar-driven northeastern angst.
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Karp | Action Chemistry | Punk in My Vitamins

February 7, 2002 by

This album is just a bunch of b-sides and compilation tracks and shit. But their style, you've got to hear it, they were crazy, brah!
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Themes and Deviations

January 31, 2002 by

The band was sprawled out across the Mercury's back patio, drummer Tim Herzog and guitarist Dave Laney also exhibiting poor posture.
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