Artsweek
Brief digression: AFI sweatshirts emblazoned with the East Bay Hardcore (EBHC) logo seem omnipresent in the city of Santa Barbara, which is odd because, well, there're no bays to speak of on the South...
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Sometimes I can spot if a rap album is going to suck just by looking at the cover insert. Up Close and Personal is one of those albums.
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For those of you who follow music way too closely and form opinions of new acts by what label they are on, check this out: Dreamweavers' label is NC Clothing, a skate clothing designer.
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Truth be told, there is usually very little to be said about the latest releases in house with the exception of an opinion and a brief description of the sound.
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Heat in the high '90s, 47 bands and lots and lots of skin greeted the 30 thousand-plus revelers at last Saturday's Coachella festival.
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Rocket From the Crypt has been touted as "the band that will save rock 'n' roll."
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Hallowed Hollywood studio Dreamworks was going to put me and a bunch of other college journalists up at the Brentwood Holiday Inn and pamper us with movie screenings, celebrity interviews, free beer, ...
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Instead of trying to come up with some witty lead to the story, let me just cut to the chase: "Driven" sucks.
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Strolling into "From the Sun King to the Royal Twilight," the new exhibit at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, is like walking through a corridor of thought and perception.
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How does one cope with the loss of a loved one and deal with the complex family problems that occur afterward?
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In the spirit of Oscar Wilde's farcical portrayals of human nature in plays such as "The Importance of Being Earnest," the Santa Barbara City College Theater group's newest production, "Taking Steps,"...
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I don't know who Capital D and Tone B. Nimble think they are.
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Postmodernism is hardly unknown to independent rock. Nearly every crap conceptual Polyvinyl band can quote Baudrillard or Foucault.
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Someone should let these guys know that if their lyrics are simply going to suck, they should scream and blur them together like the rest of the grungy, heavy bassline-hitting hard rockers.
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It seems like nowadays everybody feels the need to combine contrasting music styles. Rap-rock, ska-pop, but opera and electronica?
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“Greased Lightnin’” from “Grease”
Sunset waltz from “La La Land”
“Thriller” by Michael Jackson
Frat flick
“Macarena” by Los Del Río
“Gangnam Style” by PSY
“Swan Lake” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Renegade
“Cell Block Tango” from “Chicago”
“The Last Text” from “Dance Moms”
Flossing
All of “Hamilton”
