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Orange County: A-peel

January 17, 2002 by

I should have known that something was wrong when I had trouble enticing a friend to see "Orange County," despite the lure of a free ticket.
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Safari to the Rock ‘n’ Roll Jungle

January 17, 2002 by

There is no doubt that the powerhouse funk of local band Blue Room continues to reach higher levels of almighty musical tightness.
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Shannon McNally | Jukebox Sparrows | Capitol

January 17, 2002 by

The newest in a line of female genre-blending artists like Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt, McNally's songs are country with a soulful rock attitude.
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Atombombpocketknife | God Save the ABPK | Southern

January 17, 2002 by

Being a fan of Atombombpocketknife guitarist Justin Sinkovich's old ensemble Thumbnail, I was pretty amped to get my grubby hams on this release.
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Jel | 10 Seconds | Mush Records

January 17, 2002 by

Using an SP-1200, the classic production tool of old school legends (which creates dirty, raw-sounding samples), Jel gives birth to 10 Seconds - an album that, in my way of looking at it, parallels th...
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Lostprophets | The Fake Sound of Progress | Columbia

January 17, 2002 by

Hailing from Wales, these six, adolescent-looking nu-metallers attempt to mix rock with piano sounds and turntable effects to produce what I imagine is supposed to be "new and innovative."
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More Than the Sum of its Parts

January 10, 2002 by

Come on, it wasn't that long ago that when you looked at a large packing box, instead of seeing trash you saw a spaceship, a racecar or maybe even a dragon.
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Digging Up the Dirt

January 10, 2002 by

Your hometown can leap out and grab you at the oddest of times. In this case, Isla Vista leapt out of the carpet backstage at the El Rey during the penultimate Murder City Devils' Los Angeles gig.
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Movie Review: A Beautiful Mind: A Terrible Thing To Lose

January 10, 2002 by

Spanning some 40 years, from post-World War II through the early '90s, "A Beautiful Mind" is a sugar-coated bio-pic/period piece about the mental anguish of theoretical mathematician John Nash (Russel...
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Movie Review: The Wide Blue Road: No Man Is an Island

January 10, 2002 by

"The Wide Blue Road" is a film about a town of fishermen in Italy in the midst of a post-World War II economic slump
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The Sleeper Must Awaken

January 10, 2002 by

Hollywood loves Americans for the same reason the rest of the world hates us: We are fast food-eating, carbonated beverage-drinking, pleasure-seeking layabouts with little ambition other than to maint...
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Kid Rock | Cocky | Atlantic

January 10, 2002 by

Who is that substitute pimp charging out of the Motor City with an army of what appears to be moonshine-slammin' Metallica fans? It's Kid Rock and the Twisted Brown Trucker Band.
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Champagne Kiss | Dancing in the Pockets of Thieves | Troubleman Unlimited

January 10, 2002 by

Champagne Kiss is the latest offering from Michelle Maskovich and Russell White, the motivating forces behind Moog-happy bands The Shortwave Channel and Camera Obscura.
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Laurie Anderson | Life on a String | Nonesuch

January 10, 2002 by

Since 1981, Laurie Anderson has been one of the biggest avant-garde spoken word and experimental rock singers/songwriters to hit the mainstream American music scene.
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Various Artists | Sundays, Volume 1 | Nude Recordings

January 10, 2002 by

The people at Nude Recordings have put together a compilation that made me wet my bed. Last night I dreamt I was stranded on a deserted island, making love to my dream girl.
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