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Taste of Terrastock

By Greg Winget · Wednesday, June 11,2008 7:58 p.m.

Four artists, along with local Bloomington act Poison Oak, will play a prequel to the Terrastock festival this Wednesday at Bear’s Place, giving locals an opportunity to experience the psychedelic sound.

Skybetter is interning at Ms. Magazine in L.A.

Something to write home about

Wednesday, June 11,2008 7:50 p.m.

Growing up in downtown Chicago, IU senior Rachel Skybetter thought she'd fit right in to another big city, but explains how Hollywood is not all it's made up to be.

Playin' the blues

By Ben Fearnow · Wednesday, June 11,2008 7:45 p.m.

The Ragin’ Texans, alongside local bluesy groups Nine Below Zero and The Mizfits, will reunite this Sunday during this year’s Blues in Bryan Park music concert.

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Taste of Terrastock

By Greg Winget · Wednesday, June 11,2008 7:20 p.m.

The definition of psychedelic music has changed since its beginnings in the 1960s. Branching off into a huge array of styles over the years, modern psychedelia has become extremely varied, and the term can easily be applied to anything from stoner rock/jam groups to druggy folk and drone.

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Playin' the blues

By Ben Fearnow · Wednesday, June 11,2008 6:30 p.m.

In the ’80s and early ’90s, local Bloomington band the Ragin’ Texans performed with such guest acts as John Mellencamp, Lou Reed and R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe.

Ladytron: Velocifero

Aftermath

By Amanda Lowry · Wednesday, June 11,2008 4:52 p.m.

Listening to Ladytron’s Velocifero is kind of like listening to Devo: If this is devolution, it’s still pretty good. The album is full of chest-shaking, fuzzy keyboard lines and instrumentation that ranges from dissonant organ to industrial noise.

Jakob Dylan: Seeing Things

Seeing double

By Tyler James Perry · Wednesday, June 11,2008 4:50 p.m.

Though some critics claim his fame comes from simply being Bob Dylan’s son, Jakob Dylan has two Grammy’s to back up the attention he received in The Wallflowers. Despite the repetitiveness of his first solo attempt, Seeing Things, the album will please anyone who has a craving for the classic Dylan dynasty’s folk sound.

E for Explosion: Reinventing the Heartbeat

Explosion of emotion

By Cory Barker · Wednesday, June 11,2008 4:47 p.m.

On the most basic level, the sound of E For Explosion doesn’t deter too far from the sound Covington helped shape with JamisonParker; but that’s not a bad thing whatsoever. For the most part, Reinventing The Heartbeat is nothing more than album full of solid emo rock tracks, but it is put over the top by Covington’s intense emotion that saturates each cut.

Alesana: Where Myth Fades To Legend

Where awful fades to dreadful

By Cory Barker · Wednesday, June 11,2008 4:46 p.m.

It’d be smart to say that Alesana has produced one of the worst albums of the year, but there are so many other screamo bands that are sadly worse at them. Where Myth Fades To Legend is an album no one would wish upon even their greatest enemies. Someone put a bullet in this genre, please.

Marie-Louise Parker asks, "Where the weed at?"

Smokin' good

By Stefania Marghitu · Wednesday, June 11,2008 4:43 p.m.

It’s no surprise that a TV show about a suburban housewife who deals California’s largest cash crop is both relevant and hilarious.

"The Red Album" displays the best and the worst of Weezer's musical abilities.

A mixed bag of Weezer

By John Barnett · Wednesday, June 11,2008 4:40 p.m.

Weezer’s sixth studio effort and third self-titled release is half a great album and half a mediocre one. The first four tracks and the final track are among the best the band has ever recorded, but it’s unfortunate that tracks five through nine feel like Rivers Cuomo and company got a little lazy.

“Semi-Pro” can’t touch “Space Jam.”

Semi-Entertaining

By Caleb Jackson-Boys · Wednesday, June 11,2008 4:36 p.m.

This film is another example of the same Will Ferrell formula repeated in a slightly different situation. It almost seems as if he is tiredly going through the motions, and judging by his performance on the talk-show circuit and his recent movies, he just doesn’t give a shit anymore.

Though he’s not this flexible, Jack Black is still on top of his game.

"Panda" delivers punches, laughs

By Brent Williamson · Wednesday, June 11,2008 4:33 p.m.

"Kung-Fu Panda" had every indication of being shallow and cheaply written piece of family schlock. Fortunately, Kung-Fu Panda breaks the preconceptions of the audience and delivers a vibrant and funny movie filled with humor, heart, and hard-hitting Kung-fu action.

Adam Sandler should spend less time on his hair and more time selecting screenplays.

Don't bother with the Zohan

By Jacob Levin · Wednesday, June 11,2008 4:25 p.m.

In keeping with Sandler’s recent crop of movies, the focus of "Zohan"’s is ambitious but uneven. There are funny parts, but they are brief moments of relief from a storyline that dawdles throughout, lurching forward at odd intervals.

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Disaster Area

By Deanna Krinn · Monday, June 9,2008 8:49 p.m.

NASHVILLE, Ind. – Thirty minutes was all it took for Debbie Guffey’s family business to go under water. “I’ve seen it (to the grass),” Guffey said. “But never, never to the windows of the shop.”

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Campus buses will cut service for Summer Session II

By Eric Welch · Monday, June 9,2008 8:49 p.m.

Last week, the IU Campus Bus Service announced its plan to thin bus schedules along the A route by 50 percent as a result of rising fuel prices and a decrease in passengers during the second summer session.

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