Artsweek
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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," 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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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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Austin, Texas's ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead's major-label debut features a cut entitled "Homage," and it's the most misnamed song on the album.
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At it's best, the Hampshire five-piece juxtapose wistful, jaded lyrics and swooshing effects with big-ass "crunch-crunch" noises out of a Korn concert.
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Artsweek used its professional training and deep-cover sources of college entertainment journalism to uncover the following triple-stamped, uber-Top Secret CIA communiqu
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A werewolf who definitely howled mid make-out
A performative male dressed as Tyler Durden
The mime that somehow made it hot and cool
The ghost of your situationship (no, it’s actually them)
Frat vampire, and your neck will be bleeding
The angel that has definitely never gone out
The literal devil
A prisoner with fake tattoos that you can pretend are real for the night
A sexy cowboy that definitely used the ride line at least four times
A Patrick Bateman who relates a little too much
The witch who asked for your zodiac sign first
A nurse who will leave you needing CPR
