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Urban Experience
En Moog
Film sets synth record straight
By Niki D'Andrea, Steve Jansen, Douglas Towne and Craig Wallach
Published: March 17, 2005
FRI 3/18 "The Moog," as it's known among musical types, is the indispensable electronic synthesizer that has pioneered both mainstream and independent music movements over the...
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Aesop Rock
Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives
(Def Jux)By Jonathan Zwickel
Published: March 17, 2005
Back with thicker bounce and deeper funk than 2003's brittle Bazooka Tooth, NYC MC Aesop Rock takes a step toward his musical origins while backpacking ever closer to the...
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Film
Mad About It
Costner and Allen are the upside
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: March 17, 2005
The Upside of Anger belongs to Joan Allen, who plays Terry Wolfmeyer, a wife abandoned by her husband and left to pick up the pieces and collect them in a giant bottle of...
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Art Scene
Art Scene
Current shows, exhibits and installations
Reviews by Cristen Crujido, Benjamin Leatherman, Leanne Potts, and Amy Young
Published: March 17, 2005
"Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life": Designers get stereotyped as unexciting pragmatists, but this exhibition of fashion, architecture and product design from around...
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Sports/Outdoors
Speed Trap
PIR's Jam mixes speeding bullets with Velvet Revolver
By Niki D'Andrea and Joe Watson
Published: March 17, 2005
SAT 3/19 Slash and Scott Weiland (formerly of Guns n' Roses and Stone Temple Pilots, respectively) might have mellowed a bit -- a tad bit -- since the days of their reckless...
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Billy Idol
Devil's Playground
(Sanctuary Records)By Andrew Marcus
Published: March 17, 2005
On his affable comeback album, Billy Idol just barely succumbs to the demon that haunts Hollywood recording studios, whispering in the ear of every aging rocker, "Better tack...
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Film
Ghost and the Machine
The death of logic, without the waiting period
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: March 17, 2005
The Ring, Gore Verbinski's 2002 remake of Hideo Nakata's Ringu, offered sufficient closure that it didn't exactly demand a sequel. The horror lay in wondering why a mysterious...
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See/Be Seen
Wing Ding
1940s revisited in Mesa
By Niki D'Andrea, Austin Head and Benjamin Leatherman
Published: March 17, 2005
SAT 3/19 Grandpa's been acting kookier than normal lately, whistling "Pennsylvania 6-5000" to himself, and doing a solo Charleston in the mirror. But don't up his dosage of...
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The Mars Volta
Frances the Mute
(Universal)By Tony Ware
Published: March 17, 2005
Jane's Addiction fans reached for the Zeppelin, and Strokes fans uncovered the Velvet Underground. All's well in geekdom. But now El Paso, Texas, outfit the Mars Volta returns...
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Performance
Undrugged
Hooked pokes fun at addiction
By Niki D'Andrea, Ashlea Deahl and Joe Watson
Published: March 17, 2005
3/22-3/26 Mark Lundholm refers to himself as "a professional mistake-maker." In 1988, he found himself in a halfway house after carjacking for fixes. The divorced father of...
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Stars
Set Yourself on Fire
(Arts & Crafts)By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: March 17, 2005
Love -- as Pat Benatar sagely noted -- is a battlefield, and on the remarkable third album from Montreal indie-rock collective Stars, the bullets have been spent, the mines...
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Robbers on High Street
Tree City
(New Line)By j. poet
Published: March 17, 2005
By calling itself Robbers on High Street, this Brooklyn band dares you to guess its influences, and many of them are fairly obvious. There's snarling guitar reminiscent of the...
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Daft Punk
Human After All
(Virgin)By Dave Segal
Published: March 17, 2005
On its third studio album, Daft Punk lays on the irony as thickly as the distortion. Ditching the glittery nouveau-disco textures of 2001's Discovery, the French duo renovates...
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ZZZZ
Palm Reader
(Polyvinyl)By Jason Heller
Published: March 17, 2005
Chicago's Sweep the Leg Johnny was always a great band. But that sax? Had to go. Amid all the group's streamlined savagery, singer Steve Sostak's ungodly squawking was about as...
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Live Wire
Pigeon John
Funky yet humble
By Andrew Marcus
Published: March 17, 2005
Woe to hip-hop. Sometime in the past year, mainstream MCs became so venal that you don't so much listen to them as vicariously experience their bloat of self-importance....
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Live Wire
Ash
The soundtrack of geek romance
By Andrew Marcus
Published: March 17, 2005
As befits a band that's a teen-culture purist's dream, Ash spent part of the four years since its last album producing its own horror movie. Innocent of all things emo or artsy...
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Live Wire
Ambulance Ltd.
Pull over and let 'em through
By Tim Grierson
Published: March 17, 2005
Sometimes, the early band on the bill is the one worth your dollars. Last year, when that glorified '80s tribute band The Killers rode the success of their debut record,...
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Live Wire
Mono
Echoes from an instrumental canyon
By Serene Dominic
Published: March 17, 2005
If you think this is a reunion of the U.K. Mono-monikered band that won trip-hop infamy with Formica Blues in the '90s, forget it. But don't expect to be disappointed -- this...
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What's Selling
Top 10 selling CDs at Hoodlums, ASU Memorial Union Building in Tempe
Chart-toppers for March 4 through 10
Published: March 17, 2005
1. Jack Johnson, In Between Dreams (Universal) 2. The Mars Volta, Frances the Mute (Universal) 3. 50 Cent, The Massacre (Aftermath) 4. Death Cab for Cutie, The John Byrd...
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Needle Exchange
Shake! at the Rogue
Feel free to move about the bar
By Brendan Joel Kelley
Published: March 17, 2005
The Rogue, south Scottsdale's infamous punk rock bar, isn't normally the sort of place you're likely to see people bustin' out dance moves. But lately it's been known to...
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