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'Prefuse'ly entertaining hip-hop

By Jessica Halverson and Jesscia Halverson · Thursday, June 12,2003 12 a.m.

Tne Word Extinguisher is the album to listen to after experiencing the draining existence of far too many modern rock sluts. It will restore your faith in creative musicianship. Listening to this sort of thing really makes me want to rip out my eyebrows at the waste that makes that Top 40. Scott Herren, the man who is Prefuse 73, takes looping and beatmixing to some strange high on his second LP.

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Cartoons explain many loopholes of 'The Matrix'

By -Paul Straw · Thursday, June 12,2003 12 a.m.

"The Animatrix" is a collection of nine cartoons expanding on the world of "The Matrix." Those out there who are big enough geeks (myself included), might have known four of the cartoons had been previously released on the internet and a fifth, "The Final Flight of the Osiris," played before the movie, "Dreamcatcher." The DVD includes those five along with four new animated featurettes.

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Essex Green's unpowerful pop

By Jessica Halverson and Jesscia Halverson · Thursday, June 12,2003 12 a.m.

Man, this band is annoying. From cutesy-everything to boring, kitsch lyrics to the damn flute that sneaks in every once in awhile, The Essex Green knows how to make a rut for itself. The sad thing is, the album seems to have a good premise.

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Waves of fear: Turning up the BPM

By Michael Tapscott and Mike Tapscott · Thursday, June 12,2003 12 a.m.

This New Wave of the New Wave thing, interesting in terms of nostalgia, is basically a genre of subtleties. Like picking from a hat, it's a general rule of thumb that the discovered band will be arbitrary and that there is another one waiting, buried in a shallow grave. It is a group of bands (most based in New York) whose sound recalls the late '70s and early '80s era of CBGBs and amphetamine-driven New Wave, No Wave and Post-Punk bands like the Talking Heads, Television, Wire and Gang of Four.

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Today I painted something blue

By Jessica Halverson · Thursday, June 12,2003 12 a.m.

When you're an outcast, you feel it. You know the stares from the other kids at work. Smoker. Tomboy. You're into Xiu Xiu, can't recommend DMB or 50 Cent. Grandaddy, not Pete Yorn. Maybe you can't pay attention so well. Dripped paint on the blueprints. Drifted off with the last instructions, completed your menial task the wrong way. You're almost 21; thought this feeling and the breakouts would have faded away with high school.

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Sad bastard music done right

By B. James Reid and Brian Reid · Thursday, June 12,2003 12 a.m.

They say optimism and pessimism are defined by deciding whether a half filled glass of water is half full or half empty. It's probably safe to say that Eels frontman E would see it as half empty. In fact, E's worldview looks about as bleak as the results of Christina Aguilera's most recent VD test. Who really cares if the album is a little (and by a little, I mean very negative), E speaks to the cynic in all of us.

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My 'Intuition' says to ignore Jewel

By -Val Tsoutsouris · Thursday, June 12,2003 12 a.m.

Are you hot? Jewel thinks she is really hot. Just take a look at her new video for the single "Intuition," a sudsy romp in which Jewel puffs her chest in self-absorption. There's another song on the record that is "a love song to myself," according to the liner notes. Actually, though, after listening to her new album 0304, this is a woman making a throwaway pop diva record who knows that there is no future in a folkie singer-songwriter style.

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'Prefuse'ly entertaining hip-hop

By Jessica Halverson · Wednesday, June 11,2003 9:57 p.m.

Tne Word Extinguisher is the album to listen to after experiencing the draining existence of far too many modern rock sluts. It will restore your faith in creative musicianship. Listening to this sort of thing really makes me want to rip out my eyebrows at the waste that makes that Top 40. Scott Herren, the man who is Prefuse 73, takes looping and beatmixing to some strange high on his second LP.

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Rooney slips the mickey but has potential

By -Val Tsoutsouris · Wednesday, June 11,2003 9:56 p.m.

Major label artist development ceased to exist years ago when labels realized that bands are only as good as their last single. So here's Rooney, a very young band nowhere near ready to hit the big time but on a major label, opening shows for Weezer and the Vines and apparently already drawing gaggles of screaming girls to their shows. The bandmates' combination of influences headed by a '60s rock fascination isn't wholly unpromising, but parading around like this is only going to raise expectations to an obscene level.

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Essex Green's unpowerful pop

By Jessica Halverson · Wednesday, June 11,2003 9:55 p.m.

Man, this band is annoying. From cutesy-everything to boring, kitsch lyrics to the damn flute that sneaks in every once in awhile, The Essex Green knows how to make a rut for itself. The sad thing is, the album seems to have a good premise.

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My 'Intuition' says to ignore Jewel

By -Val Tsoutsouris · Wednesday, June 11,2003 9:54 p.m.

Are you hot? Jewel thinks she is really hot. Just take a look at her new video for the single "Intuition," a sudsy romp in which Jewel puffs her chest in self-absorption. There's another song on the record that is "a love song to myself," according to the liner notes. Actually, though, after listening to her new album 0304, this is a woman making a throwaway pop diva record who knows that there is no future in a folkie singer-songwriter style.

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It's too loud, I'm too old

By -Alec Toombs · Wednesday, June 11,2003 9:53 p.m.

The Deftones have set themselves apart from white bread nu-metal contemporaries Staind and Linkin Park by embracing art-rock conventions established by such acts as the Cure and My Bloody Valentine back in the '80s. This experimentation is a welcome change from the cookie-cutter alt-rock heard on modern radio, but also tends to jumble the overall soundscape of the band's records.

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Sad bastard music done right

By B. James Reid · Wednesday, June 11,2003 9:52 p.m.

They say optimism and pessimism are defined by deciding whether a half filled glass of water is half full or half empty. It's probably safe to say that Eels frontman E would see it as half empty. In fact, E's worldview looks about as bleak as the results of Christina Aguilera's most recent VD test. Who really cares if the album is a little (and by a little, I mean very negative), E speaks to the cynic in all of us.

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Mellencamp returns to 'roots'

By Brian Eliott Johnson and Brian Elliott Johnson · Wednesday, June 11,2003 9:51 p.m.

John Mellencamp has made a career of singing about slices of American life. Now with his latest, Trouble No More, he is at it again, but this time around he's letting others speak for him with an album full of covers and traditional songs ranging from Robert Johnson to Woody Guthrie to Lucinda Williams. Those expecting to hear echoes of his classic albums, such as The Lonesome Jubilee and Uh-Huh, may find disappointment with this latest effort, but those going into it with open ears will find a world that, while it doesn't hold the same personal sentiments of "Cherry Bomb" and "Little Pink Houses," still triumphs.

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A carnival of caring

Wednesday, June 11,2003 9:22 p.m.

The Fun Frolic carnival that begins tomorrow will be improving kids' lives not only for the week the carnival is here, but for years to come. Twenty percent of the profits will be split between IU Child Care Services and Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Monroe County. Big Brothers, Big Sisters Development Director Tom Hargis said the program receives a little more than $25,000 every year because of the carnival. "It goes to support essentially everything we do," Hargis said.

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Bell back for benefit concert

Wednesday, June 11,2003 9:22 p.m.

After nearly three years, Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell is returning to his hometown of Bloomington to perform at 8 p.m. June 24 at the Musical Arts Center. This concert is one of the first of many coming attractions of the IU School of Music's Summer Music Festival.

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Groups look for changes

By Ryota Kashiwa · Wednesday, June 11,2003 9:22 p.m.

The supporters of Indiana Equality, an initiative to extend civil liberties to people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, are looking for a few good legislators.

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Professor passes away at home

By Rob DeWitte · Wednesday, June 11,2003 9:20 p.m.

IU's anthropology department suffered a tragic loss Monday. James H. Kellar, director emeritus of the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, died at home.

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Duvall tangos the night away

By Michael Tapscott · Wednesday, June 11,2003 9:11 p.m.

"Assassination Tango" is the third film written and directed by Robert Duvall following "Angelo My Love" (1983) and "The Apostle" (1997). It is a film that slowly envelops a cross-section of a life, eventually revealing that amid cultural chaos, personal strife and moral evil lies the overwhelming pull towards normalcy.

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Flick subverts, embraces stereotypes

By -Alec Toombs · Wednesday, June 11,2003 9:10 p.m.

"Better Luck Tomorrow" is a curious and occasionally disturbing little gem. Following its 2002 Sundance Film Festival premiere, Roger Ebert rightfully defended the film when a fellow critic (also white) labeled it an "immoral" representation of Asian Americans. While the movie, which boasts an Asian American director and cast, doesn't present the group in the greatest of lights, it's certainly not immoral.

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