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October 18, 2001

New Order | Get Ready | WEA/Warner Bros.

By Staff

New Order is back. After breaking its long silence with a track on last year's soundtrack to "The Beach," the dance-rock group has come back to the realm of LP-making with Get Ready.

October 11, 2001

Artsweek Calender

By Staff

Thursday More than just a pretty face. The UCSB Women’s Center Art Gallery holds the exhibition entitled “I am …” Women Defining Themselves Through Culture. An opening reception will be held from ...

October 11, 2001

Tying Up Loose Ends

By Erin James

"'Theater as rock concert' is the easiest tagline we have come up with," said organizer and performer Jason Burnstein. "Although it is pretty much impossible to explain what it is."

October 11, 2001

Art in the Hot Seat

By Leah Fargotstein

In spite of being so appealing, or perhaps because of it, Tuttle's furniture is both functional and ergonomic - two aspects of design that many contemporary artists have chosen to ignore.

October 11, 2001

Hedonism, INC.

By DJ

This seems antithetical for a group with roots in the proselytic hardcore genre. Then again, maybe they just want to carve out a niche, however small.

October 11, 2001

mi6 | Lunchbox | Kung Fu Records

By Ted Andersen

mi6's second album Lunchbox comes complete with fire-roasted lyrics, deep-fried power-punk guitar and a side of strange-ass confessions.

October 11, 2001

The Pattern | Immediately | Lookout!

By DJ FatKid

For every moment the band sounds like AC/DC, there's another where it sounds like the Stooges and yet another where it sounds like Pussy Galore.

October 11, 2001

Pressure 4-5 | Burning the Process | Dreamworks

By Jessica Jardine

In a time where musical genres, through fusion and collaboration, have become twisted like a knot of drunken contortionists, Pressure 4-5 sticks to what makes a rock band truly rock.

October 11, 2001

The Strokes | Is This It? | RCA Records

By David Downs

I am a frugal reviewer and I would never endorse a $15 CD with less than four really good songs. The Strokes' Is This It? has seven, and after one listen I skateboarded home humming the guitar hooks I remembered.

October 11, 2001

Menage a Trois

By Patrick Wright

Maybe it's the obsessive-compulsive disorder in me, but I am a sucker for the heist film. The idea of a perfect plan gets me every time - the way it is conceived and executed, the attention to detail, the precision timin...

October 11, 2001

The Death of a Novel

By Steven Ruszczycky

Movie studios have the habit of trying to make good things better. They try to redo good stories and interesting characters for a population with an ever-shrinking attention span.

September 27, 2001

Bob Dylan | Love and Theft | Columbia

By Patrick Wright

Love and Theft, Bob Dylan's 43rd album is Forest Gump without the upbeat, guileless hero.

September 27, 2001

See No Evil Hear No Evil Speak No Evil

By Erin James

"This [list] sends a message about the obstacles that exist in expressing a certain kind of viewpoint."

September 27, 2001

Masters of Horror Unite

By Steven Ruszczycky

It’s so rare to find a good horror novel these days. Most of the pulp junk on the shelves isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Every time a new King or Straub book hits the shelves, fans of the macabr...

September 27, 2001

The Faint | Danse Macabre | Saddle Creek

By DJ FatKid

The Faint's use of analog synthesizers and live instrumentation is widely touted, but all I hear is Depeche Mode.

September 20, 2001

Meet the Band: Shaking the Hand that Bites

By Patrick DJ

Leaping from a self-released LP the group has been snapped up by Dreamworks, sent off into the Ozzfest maelstrom and set up with Orgy and Slipknot producer Jay Baumgardner.