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Y Tu Mama Tambien: Finalmente! Cine Caliente

April 18, 2002 by

Here is a film that is intelligent, insightful, surprising, funny, and burningly sexy all in one; a film that's frank realism and audacity are rarely found in American movies.
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Blackalicious | Blazing Arrow | MCA

April 18, 2002 by

Blackalicious’ only crime on Blazing Arrow is that its CD is too fucking good. The rhymes set the ears a-tingle and the frontal lobes afire. The beats blur genres and demand bass knobs turned to...
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Sage Francis | Personal Journals | Anticon

April 18, 2002 by

Personal Journals is Sage Francis’ long-awaited first LP, complete with “journal entries” explaining the conception of each track and written apologies to all of his ex-girlfriends. ...
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Fat Jon the Ample Soul Physician | Wave Motion | Mush Records

April 18, 2002 by

When I listen to music, I see things – I see visions of people, exotic settings and situations. If a picture tells a thousand words, and I only have 220 left to tell you about Wave Motion, IR...
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Hip Hop Top Ten

April 18, 2002 by

1) J-Live | All of the Above | 7Heads 2) Blackalicious | Blazing Arrow | Quannum 3) El-P| Deep Space 9mm | Def Jux 4) Antipop Consortium | Arrhythmia | Warp 5) Scarub and Very | Afroclassic? | Legenda...
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Staging A Devolution

April 11, 2002 by

The Gorillaz I would endure almost any indignity. The group's live show is a fundamentally arcane creature, and I made the drive down to Los Angeles on March 9, keen to know it more intimately.
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My Vagina Is Angry And It Needs To Talk

April 11, 2002 by

UCSB's allegedly liberal-minded student body could use a good, hard kick to the cunt, and three professional Vagina Monologists have arrived with their boots on.
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Big Trouble: Ahead Of The Crass

April 11, 2002 by

The director of "Get Shorty" has produced a highly stylized and devilishly entertaining movie in the Hollywood tradition of bumbling ex-cons and cops, confused professionals and hallucinogen-squirting...
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Rye Coalition | On Top | Tiger Style

April 11, 2002 by

Returning after three years of silence with a third album, the band stands by its old habit of changing membership every album as well as its snide regard for '70s hard rock, and then goes full bore.
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Bats & Mice | Believe It Mammals | Lovitt

April 11, 2002 by

I feel cleansed, fresh, wonderful. But let me start at the beginning. Last year, a curiously simple little brown-fronted CD-EP landed in the review pile, from a band called Bats & Mice.
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Reverend Horton Heat | Lucky 7 | Artemis

April 11, 2002 by

Before you get any Catholic jokes in your dirty minds, I have an admission to make: Reverend Horton Heat took my psychobilly cherry in the back of the House of Blues on Sunset in 1996.
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Painting By Numbers

April 4, 2002 by

Writer/director Richard Linklater conceived of a new direction in animation. Teaming up with Bob Sabiston, who developed a signature software package to animate over the top of live-action film, Linkl...
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Literature Blows

April 4, 2002 by

"Literary parody and current events parody, mixed in with some fellatio humor; and some of them have plots." So goes author Neal Pollack's synopsis of the very funny and naughty Neal Pollack Anthology...
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Panic Room: Can’t Get Into It

April 4, 2002 by

"Panic Room," billed as commentary on the trappings of paranoia in the late 20th century and designed to have the audience looking over their shoulders on the way home, disintegrates into a run-of-the...
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Dead and Gone | The Beautician | GSL

April 4, 2002 by

Meet Dead and Gone. They're oh-so-creepy, oh-so-dark, in oh-so-much pain, and with The Beautician, prove once and for all that they're smarter than you.
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