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An Inferno Even Dante Would Love

April 7, 2006 by

Rock and roll is essentially licentious. Though, at its essence it is a fiery and ultimately liberating art. This July, the World/Inferno Friendship Society will release its new record, an amalgamatio...
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Live: KCRW’s A Sounds Eclectic Evening @ Gibson Amphitheatre

April 7, 2006 by

Once upon a time, NPR meant droning talk radio, hours of highbrow classical programming and the occasional hour of "world music" aimed at affluent middle-agers. Luckily, this age of pretentiousness ha...
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Live: Belle & Sebastian / The New Pornographers @ The Wiltern LG

April 7, 2006 by

Just after the first three songs of the band’s set list, Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch stopped for a moment to check on his bandmates’ morale. Guitarist Steve Jackson quic...
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“A” for Amen

April 7, 2006 by

While we fight a war with an increasing death toll, attempt to repair the damage of a hurricane disaster which is slipping further and further out of public view, and try to make sense of the announce...
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Stop Hatin’

April 7, 2006 by

Documentaries are all the rage nowadays. All it takes is a few key items and you’re set. First, you need a camera, hopefully a nice one, none of that skate video looking stuff. Second, you will ...
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Show Your Bones | Interscope

April 7, 2006 by

“Sometimes I think that I’m bigger than the sound,” bemoans Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O throughout “Cheated Hearts.” The cut is just one of 11 decidedly personal d...
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Don’t Panic

March 9, 2006 by

If I was in a rock band, I would ride onstage on a gold-plated motorcycle. Unfortunately, the members of The Academy Is... had too much integrity for this death-defying stunt. However, Artsweek did in...
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What, No Blarney Stone?

March 9, 2006 by

Dense and sinister-a fog slowly rolls over the audience's heads setting the stage for a performance of visiting playwright Marina Carr's "By the Bog of Cats." The fog preludes the clouds of malady tha...
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Ghetto Musik

March 9, 2006 by

If the "Girl from Ipanema" were alive today, she would certainly be homeless, addicted to drugs or dead. Today's Rio de Janeiro is much different than the Rio that inspired Stan Getz to write that fam...
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16 Blocks | Do You Feel Lucky, Punk?

March 9, 2006 by

Transport a criminal from his cell to a court appearance - simple enough, right? That's what Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis), an alcoholic and aging cop, has to do. But, with Eddie Bunker (Mos Def) in his ...
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She Wants Revenge | She Wants Revenge | Geffen

March 9, 2006 by

If Interpol is the mainstream musical brain fodder of mopey art students, then She Wants Revenge's self-titled debut acts as the melodramatic junior high schooler's equivalent. This is not to say that...
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Mogwai | Mr. Beast | Matador

March 9, 2006 by

For our beloved Daily Nexus readers who have not yet heard of Mogwai, I would briefly describe them as an instrumental rock band that utilizes the versatility of the electric guitar in all of its vari...
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Artist in Profile: A Portrait of the Hairbrain Scheme as Young Men

February 23, 2006 by

Rome wasn't built in a day. Neither was the Hairbrain Scheme. Each member of this Santa Barbara quartet was carefully constructed over the course of approximately nine months inside his mother's womb....
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The Last of The Mountain Kings

February 23, 2006 by

If you're craving some serious outdoor adventure, go no further than Campbell Hall next week. The Best of the 30th Annual Banff Mountain Film Festival, a showcase of short independent adventure films,...
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Live: Avenged Sevenfold, CKY and the Confession

February 23, 2006 by

I'm standing at the front railing, a high-decibel monitor in front of my face. A large, tattooed woman behind me emits a sigh of frustration. "God, Avenged had better go on soon," she says. "Then I ca...
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