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New Order | Get Ready | WEA/Warner Bros.

October 18, 2001 by

New Order is back. After breaking its long silence with a track on last year's soundtrack to "The Beach," the dance-rock group has come back to the realm of LP-making with Get Ready.
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October 11, 2001 by

Thursday More than just a pretty face. The UCSB Women’s Center Art Gallery holds the exhibition entitled “I am …” Women Defining Themselves Through Culture. An opening receptio...
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Tying Up Loose Ends

October 11, 2001 by

"'Theater as rock concert' is the easiest tagline we have come up with," said organizer and performer Jason Burnstein. "Although it is pretty much impossible to explain what it is."
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Art in the Hot Seat

October 11, 2001 by

In spite of being so appealing, or perhaps because of it, Tuttle's furniture is both functional and ergonomic - two aspects of design that many contemporary artists have chosen to ignore.
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Hedonism, INC.

October 11, 2001 by

This seems antithetical for a group with roots in the proselytic hardcore genre. Then again, maybe they just want to carve out a niche, however small.
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mi6 | Lunchbox | Kung Fu Records

October 11, 2001 by

mi6's second album Lunchbox comes complete with fire-roasted lyrics, deep-fried power-punk guitar and a side of strange-ass confessions.
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The Pattern | Immediately | Lookout!

October 11, 2001 by

For every moment the band sounds like AC/DC, there's another where it sounds like the Stooges and yet another where it sounds like Pussy Galore.
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Pressure 4-5 | Burning the Process | Dreamworks

October 11, 2001 by

In a time where musical genres, through fusion and collaboration, have become twisted like a knot of drunken contortionists, Pressure 4-5 sticks to what makes a rock band truly rock.
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The Strokes | Is This It? | RCA Records

October 11, 2001 by

I am a frugal reviewer and I would never endorse a $15 CD with less than four really good songs. The Strokes' Is This It? has seven, and after one listen I skateboarded home humming the guitar hooks ...
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Menage a Trois

October 11, 2001 by

Maybe it's the obsessive-compulsive disorder in me, but I am a sucker for the heist film. The idea of a perfect plan gets me every time - the way it is conceived and executed, the attention to detail,...
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The Death of a Novel

October 11, 2001 by

Movie studios have the habit of trying to make good things better. They try to redo good stories and interesting characters for a population with an ever-shrinking attention span.
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Bob Dylan | Love and Theft | Columbia

September 27, 2001 by

Love and Theft, Bob Dylan's 43rd album is Forest Gump without the upbeat, guileless hero.
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See No Evil Hear No Evil Speak No Evil

September 27, 2001 by

"This [list] sends a message about the obstacles that exist in expressing a certain kind of viewpoint."
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Masters of Horror Unite

September 27, 2001 by

It’s so rare to find a good horror novel these days. Most of the pulp junk on the shelves isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Every time a new King or Straub book hits the shelves...
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The Faint | Danse Macabre | Saddle Creek

September 27, 2001 by

The Faint's use of analog synthesizers and live instrumentation is widely touted, but all I hear is Depeche Mode.
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