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March 8, 2001

Straight To Video Classics: Tribute to Gary Busey

By Trey Clark

The Man, the Myth, the Legend: Gary Busey. Gary Busey is the man, the “Straight to Video Classics” king. His life on and off the camera is inspirational, a beacon of hope to all thespians lacking talent but t...

March 8, 2001

Theater Review: “Midsummer Night’s Dream”

By Lindsay Farmer Staff Writer

What happens when you combine some mixed-up lovers, a feuding lord and his lady, a chauvinist father, a host of fairies and a little magic? You get Theatre UCSB in conjunction with the SB Dance Theatre’s “A M...

March 8, 2001

Cutthroat Comittee | Turf Buccaneers | Thizz

By The Yak Staff Writer

The Crest Side Creeper is back again, this time with some help from his cutties (Fellow Cutthroats). Mac Dre, Vallejo’s most revered independent rapper, teams up with fellow Crest Siders P.S.D. and Dubee AKA Sugawo...

March 8, 2001

Arab Strap | Red Thread | Matador

By Joseph Martinez

Sunday morning music is for lying in bed and kissing the back of the neck of the one you love. Red Thread is not just Sunday morning music, it’s rainy Sunday morning music. The two blokes who make up the band are t...

March 8, 2001

Various Artists | Caf

By Patrick Wright

CafŽ Del Mar Volume Seven is an acceptable compilation of downbeat ambient techno and house with a few Latin jazz pop songs thrown in for good measure. Stitched together by the enigmatic Bruno, the album is consiste...

March 8, 2001

Jennifer Lopez | J. Lo | Epic

By Jenne Raub

For a self-described dance-pop album, J. Lo has lots to live up to. After all, the genre has been around as long as rock itself, and albums such as Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall have long since set the standard fo...

March 8, 2001

The Breakestra | The Live Mix Vol. 2 | Stones Throw

By Trey Clark

I can see the confused expressions already: “Why are you reviewing a funk band? That shit ain’t hip hop!” Chill out fool. The Breakestra is a bunch of guys who play instruments but wish they were hip ho...

March 1, 2001

Interview: Bad Astronaut

By Collin Mitchell

"There's people who just turn on the radio and see whatever the hell is on, and there's people like me who sit around for two hours looking for used records; but there's no right or wrong."

March 1, 2001

Film Review: “3000 Miles to Graceland”

By Andy Sywak

A 120-minute exercise in bad-boy cliches, generic storytelling and gratuitous violence, co-writer and director Demian Lichtenstein has made one of the most disgraceful and ugly films in recent memory.

March 1, 2001

Film Review: “Black and White in Color”

By Patrick Wright

A Mira Erdevicki documentary, it primarily takes place in the Czech Republic, where Vera Bila and her band Kale struggle to make ends meet with part-time jobs while trying to book gigs, do publicity spots and find time t...

March 1, 2001

Aceyalone | Accepted Eclectic | Project Blowed

By Trey Clark

Aceyalone exists as the greatest emcee on earth, as well as one of the most underappreciated. If you’ve ever checked for the L.A. underground, you know the stats: one-fourth of Freestyle Fellowship, head of the Pro...

March 1, 2001

The Ataris | End is Forever | Kung Fu

By Ted Andersen

I like punk rock, but any good punk ass knows there are types of the music for different moods. The Santa Barbara quartet The Ataris seems to gear their punk toward the relationship inept. The band’s latest album, ...

March 1, 2001

Rainer Maria | A Better Version of Me | Polyvinyl

By Joseph Martinez

Intimacy is the art unique to the musical trio. Named after the famous German poet, R.M. Rilke, Rainer Maria consists of a couple plus one other guy. Arguably emo, Rainer Maria makes songs about emotions not yet given na...

March 1, 2001

Self Scientific | The Self Science | S.O.L. Musicworks

By Trey Clark

Back in 1998, when the hip hop independent 12″ trend was still relatively young, and I could afford to spend money on records I had never heard before, I came across “Return” from Self Scientific. Altho...

March 1, 2001

The Causey Way | Causey vs. Everything | Alternative Tentacles

By DJ FatKid

Are reviewers somehow honor bound to play into bands’ gimmicks? It seems sycophantic to do so, which means I guess I’ll be a stick in the mud (shtick in the mud?) and declare straight off that members of Man ...

March 1, 2001

Living End | Roll On | Reprise

By Patrick Wright

In the tradition of other Australian bands, Living End’s second album Roll On falls short of its self-titled debut. Released back in ’97, that album went five times platinum down under and made a dent in the ...