Artsweek
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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If you're anxiously searching for open-shirted, pouty-lipped rock star photos to paste all over your notebook, dredg is the wrong act for you. These four Bay Area art-rock boys seem faceless even as t...
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A dark, empty theater, popcorn, hushed silence - the perfect atmosphere for a scary movie. Instead, however, I got "Swimfan." The plot line is simple - at times, painfully so.
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World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) comes to Santa Barbara for the first time in 15 years. Actually, for the first time ever; all prior wrestling engagement were actually booked by the World Wildlife ...
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They should have called the album Songs That Will Make You Go Deaf, because it is one of the most inspired collections of loud, aggressive hard rock songs to come out in recent years.
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Pulp, in its various incarnations, has offered anthems for the downtrodden since 1978. Different Class, in 1995, is unquestionably one of the finest albums of the decade.
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George Clinton's Funkadelic provided the Funk to Parliament's P, and, despite the promiscuous member-swapping between the two groups, Funkadelic kept its sound distinct from that of the other Funk Mob...
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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
