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The Avalanches | Since I Left You | Sire/Modular

November 15, 2001 by

For recording artists, the line between sampling and stealing can be very fine. And copyright infringement can be an expensive lesson learned.
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Techno Animal | The Brotherhood of the Bomb | Matador

November 15, 2001 by

To put it simply, this is Techno Animal: a slowed electronic rhythm with hard drums and heavy bass.
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Alana Davis | Fortune Cookies | Elektra

November 15, 2001 by

It's a new world, Ms. Davis - you're not the only multicultural, pop songstress anymore. While you hit it big in 1997 with "Thirty-two Flavors," there is more competition now; a catchy pop chorus just...
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Growing Old Together

November 13, 2001 by

We might not walk, talk or look the the same, but I still love you baby. Artsweek celebrates a two-decade long relationship with animation.
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Seasoning Your Words

November 7, 2001 by

Performance poetry, as of late, has experienced a renaissance fueled by the energy and fervor of young bards who reject the constraints of traditional poetry forums.
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Waking Life: Brownia Motion

November 7, 2001 by

A 99-minute fully animated dream sequence containing numerous dream subplots, false awakenings, philosophical brainteasers and, yet, no clear story line - sounds like the perfect recipe for a Hollywoo...
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Monsters Inc.: Out of the Closet

November 7, 2001 by

A summer of animation successes and failures taught Pixar/Disney an important lesson: amazing technology can't make up for a worthless script.
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Pink Floyd | Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd | EMD/Capital

November 7, 2001 by

Pink Floyd, the band Barrett helped to make famous with his insanity, offers Echoes, a greatest hits album, combining popular favorites with Barrett's early work.
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Incubus | Morning View | Epic

November 7, 2001 by

As a longtime Incubus junkie, it is with great displeasure that I admit Morning View, though introspective and chock-full of musical surprises, is far from a stellar achievement.
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Lexicon | It’s the L | Spytech

November 7, 2001 by

With its first full-length release, It's the L, the Southern Cali-based duo hopes to broaden its local rep and become "popular" nationwide. Shit ... I remember what it was like to be 15, too.
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Genre, All Mixed Up

November 1, 2001 by

The Associated Students - sponsored "From Chaos" tour - opened by Alien Ant Farm and headlined by 311 - was a heaven-sent purgation from the festering ulcer that midterms week had become.
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One for the Road

November 1, 2001 by

"I'm tired of Budweiser," said Spencer Moody. "I drank four and a half years of Budweiser on tour, so I'm drinking Heineken on this one."
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‘Mulholland Drive’: The Long and Winding Road

November 1, 2001 by

After his Oscar-winning Disney departure from new noir, "The Straight Story," director David Lynch returns to the off-kilter, double fantasies that made "Lost Highway" so maddeningly enthralling.
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The Best Words in Their Best Order

November 1, 2001 by

"You can analyze the music of poetry, but it's difficult to conduct an argument about its value, especially when it's gotten into the blood. It becomes autobiography there." -Robert Haas
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Bush | Golden State | Atlantic

November 1, 2001 by

Emerging from the grunge movement, comparisons with bands that defined the genre were inevitable. Bush, however, was cursed with more than its fair share of naysayers that slammed the band as another ...
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