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Pirate Info Galore

June 25, 2003 by

All your pirate dialect needs
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Dropkick Murphys | blackout | HellCat Records

June 25, 2003 by

The Dropkick Murphys came as a huge shock to most punk fans with 1998's Do or Die. For kids who had never heard of the Pogues, Do or Die's mix of rock, folk and Irish music was unprecedented.
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KCSB Top 20

June 25, 2003 by

1) Kissing Tigers | Trebuchet (EP) | You Genius2) The Postal Service | Give Up | Sub Pop3) Hot Cross | Cryonics | Level Plane
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Let’s Get Digital

May 29, 2003 by

You probably know a film studies major. Perhaps s/he is a roommate or just that guy/girl in class who feels the need to parallel every topic of study to the way Scorsese masterfully saturated the hues...
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Bruce Almighty | Bruce Alrighty, Then!

May 29, 2003 by

Folks, this movie stinks to high heaven.In the past few years, Jim Carrey has been taking on challenging roles (as in "The Truman Show" and "Man on the Moon") in an attempt to win an Oscar. With "Bruc...
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Kindergarten and Coltrane

May 29, 2003 by

Mark Cantor may seem like your average kindergarten teacher, having thirty years' experience with the little rugrats, but just throw out a name like "Billie Holiday" or "Dinah Washington," and you'll ...
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Detroit’s Finest

May 29, 2003 by

This Memorial Day weekend, I joined over 700,000 dance music lovers and went to "Movement," Detroit's Electronic Music Festival, also known as the DEMF. I flew in with my best bud on Friday to catch s...
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Ed Harcourt | From Every Sphere | Heavenly

May 29, 2003 by

Ah, singer/songwriters and their quirks. Ed Harcourt, who plays about 39 instruments, wrote all the music, sang all the songs and entirely lacked creative backing on From Every Sphere , is a good exam...
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Led Zeppelin | How the West Was Won | Atlantic

May 29, 2003 by

The first Led Zeppelin album added to a music collection is a special memory for everyone. At least, it was for me. Helping my old man arrange books and records at the Agoura Hills Library some years ...
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KCSB Top 20

May 29, 2003 by

1) Black Eyes | s/t | Dischord2) Postal Service | Give Up | Sub Pop3) Rjd2 | The Horror | Def Jux
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The Paulitical Prince

May 22, 2003 by

A veteran hip hop visionary of almost two decades, Prince Paul knows this. He knows that critics can digest artistry the wrong way, and that labels can excrete you without a second thought.
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Hunting For Jazz’s Newest Son

May 22, 2003 by

After emerging with Michael Franti and the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy in 1992, Hunter released his own trio's first jazz album in 1993, Charlie Hunter Trio, under Primus bassist Les Claypool's Pr...
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Movie Review | Matrix Reloaded: Captain Neo On Deck

May 22, 2003 by

If you had to sum up the Wachowski brothers' "The Matrix: Reloaded" in one word, it would be "cool." If you could use two words, the second would be "unnecessary."
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Deftones | s/t | Maverick

May 22, 2003 by

When bands play hard and heavy, they always take the risk of thrumming out agonizingly slow, as if they were attempting to gorge John Madden's Thanksgiving Day turkey doused in 54 gallons of slop-grav...
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Electric Six | Danger! High Voltage | Beggars/XL

May 22, 2003 by

"Fire in the disco / Fire in the Taco Bell / Fire in the disco / Fire at the gates of hell." So sings Electric Six frontman Dick Valentine in "Danger! High Voltage" on the album of the same name.
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