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KCSB Hip Hop Top 10

1) Ursula Rucker | Super Sista | !K7 2) Living Legends | Almost Famous | Legendary Music 3) Meanest Man Contest | Feelin’ Pretty Psyched (About Love) [single] | Weapon-Shaped 4) Emanon | The Pri...
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Brushfire and Water

Eight years ago freshman math major Jack Johnson lived in Anacapa Hall, ate lunch at DLG and joked with his dad about being a rich statistician after college.
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Crossroads: Trashy, Sassy and Britney Hit the Road

"Crossroads" joins blockbusters "Glitter" and "On the Line" as the latest pop-star vehicle to leave American adolescents insecure and socially sedated.
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Reverse Astrology

R. Kelly: Today is a 14. Just how old was that girl in the videotape? You will face difficulty in proving your innocence to people in the upcoming months. It might be best to lay low while the legal b...
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Various Artists | The Thing That Ate Floyd | Lookout!

The Bay Area has a steady tradition of re-releasing compilations documenting scenes that have passed on. The Thing That Ate Floyd is the most recent re-entry into the fray.
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Zero 7 | Simple Things | Quango/Palm Records

These dudes sound exactly like Air, so much so, that in my mind they are Air, the old Air, the erotic Air that everyone wants to fuck to.
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Various Artists | The Funky 16 Corners | Stones Throw

Peanut Butter Wolf knows how important it is to keep the funk alive; it's his job as a skilled producer and as founder of Stones Throw Records.
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Rock Top Ten

KCSB Top Ten Rock Plays courtesy of Brad at KCSB-FM 91.9 1) Thrice | The Illusion of Safety | SubCity 2) Mary’s 9th Cut | Swan Song | Dogprint 3) Tara Jane O’Neil | In the Sun Lines | Quar...
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Cyberspace Wars

Morninglory Music closed its Isla Vista store last week. Owner Stan Bernstein told a tale of blight he claims has spread across the nation: "There [is] no way to compete with free downloadable music a...
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Breaking Into A (Small) Run

Eggers teased diehard fans with screen shots of pages from his new book, flashing through the blurry and small pages, commenting, "This is when I discovered adjectives. Some of my friends told me that...
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I Wouldn’t Exchange My Vagina For All The Tea In China

UCSB's Women's Ensemble Theater Troupe (W.E.T.T.) presents the monologues Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 7 in honor of V-Day, a worldwide movement to stop violence against women.
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Collateral Damage: Terror Knows No Plot

Want bin Laden on a stick? Apparently the Bush administration should just save the money going toward cumbersome military operations and buy Arnie a plane ticket.
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DJ Enrie | Welcome to the Mix Show | Moonshine

One of my good friends tells me that she gets the female equivalent of blue balls whenever her desires are not being met – by way of her uterus contracting. After listening to this mix album, I ...
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Neil Michael Hagerty | Plays That Good Old Rock and Roll | Drag City

The guitarist, known for his involvement with abrasive blues-punk combo Pussy Galore and subsequent unabashed vein-thumping as half of Royal Trux, returns with his second solo album.
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3582 | The Living Soul | Hum Drums

>Fat Jon is "35," a versatile producer and member of the crafty 5 Deez. J-Rawls is "82," a distinguished MC and member of the up-and-coming Lone Catalysts. What the hell more could an underground hip ...
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