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British by night in L.A.
Special to The TimesTestifying to the ongoing Invasion, the kingdom's sounds enliven clubs and Angelenos find a cultural kinship. In a town where you can practically dance to the beat of the boom-bust cycle, and six months is a good run for a club night, one part of the...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Starbucks Corp., Silversun Pickups (music group), Moscow (Russia), The Smiths (music group)
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A reignited Reznor nails the feeling at Coachella
Times Staff WriterWhen a great artist from one decade returns to action in another, the best that can usually be hoped for is a reasonable approximation of the old brilliance. Prince's comeback tour last year may have been wonderful, but he still wasn't the man with the...Tags: Prince (music artist), Kurt Cobain, Wars and Interventions, Music Industry, Festive Events
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Slackers in Icelandin '101 Reykjavik'
TIMES FILM CRITIC"What is it you do in life?" Lola asks Hlynur. "Nothing." "What kind of nothing?" "The nothing kind of nothing." Hlynur is not exaggerating. The protagonist of "101 Reykjavik," possibly the first and certainly the most successful Icelandic slacker...Tags: West Los Angeles, Abril , Movies, Bjork, Santa Monica
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Smart pop tart
Tribune music critic"He never made me feel like I was special," Avril Lavigne sang in the opening seconds of her concert Thursday at the United Center. Lavigne should have been pouting, but instead her silhouette stood tall behind a curtain bearing the image of a fist...Tags: Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne, Pies and Tarts, United Center
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Movie review: 'Sexy Beast'
Chicago Tribune Staff Writer3 1/2 stars (out of 4) Even before Don Logan (Ben Kingsley) appears, his presence permeates "Sexy Beast." His name saturates the room with tension and sets its occupants into a quivering sweat. Like Orson Welles' Harry Lime in "The Third Man" or...Tags: Tim Roth, Martin Scorsese, Ian McShane, Movies, United Kingdom
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Off your radar screen
Chicago Tribune rock criticThe ones that got away? Not necessarily. In the last year, more than 30,000 compact discs were released. Here are a few small treasures that nearly were buried in that avalanche, great records that escaped wide notice but deserve your attention. Deltron...Tags: Dance Music (genre), Auction Service, Plastic Surgeons, Randy Newman, Avalanches and Landslides
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Music review, Coldplay at the Vic
Special to the TribuneAside from Radiohead, which occupies a unique place in the pop scene as the current international arbiter of cool, Brit-pop just isn't making much headway in a U.S. market still saturated with teen pop and hip-hop. Any assessment of so many other U.K....Tags: Coldplay (music group), Radiohead (music group), Eminem
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Rock review, Gorillaz at the Riv
Tribune staff reporterGorillaz fans who sold out the Aragon Ballroom Sunday night did not hallucinate. The record did not skip. British pop sensation Gorillaz actually repeated not one, but two songs —"5/4" and star-making hit "Clint Eastwood" — during its encore. Perhaps...Tags: George Lucas, Television, Damon Albarn, Gorillaz (music group), United Kingdom
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Cartoon characters
Tribune rock criticGorillaz, which makes its Chicago debut Sunday, March 3, at the sold-out Aragon, is the latest and perhaps most fully realized of fabricated pop bands: It's the Archies with a Web site, the "Yellow Submarine" Beatles with a hip-hop makeover, the Jackson 5...Tags: Animation (genre), Music Theater, Cartoons, Music Industry, Television
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Always Faithfull renditions
In her 1994 biography, Marianne Faithfull wrote of her young life that "I wasn't interested in happiness, I was looking for the holy grail." And how. When the Rolling Stones were marauding their way through the '60s, Faithfull was so close to the...Tags: John Lennon, Damon Albarn, Marianne Faithfull, England, The Happiest News!
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Cafe Tacuba's malleable sonic urgings
On Café Tacuba's fifth and latest album, "Cuatro Caminos" (MCA), the Mexican quartet once again ventures outside its comfort zone to find the "very moment when the floor beneath us ends." That line, from the album's final song, "Hola Adios" (Hello...Tags: Recording Studios, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Chicago Tribune, Rock and Roll (genre), Radiohead (music group)
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Trainspotting
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday July 19, 1996 Exuberant and pitiless, profane yet eloquent, flush with the ability to create laughter out of unspeakable situations, "Trainspotting" is a drop-dead look at a dead-end lifestyle that has all the strength of its considerable...Tags: London (England), Ewan McGregor, Cinema Industry, Kevin McKidd, Movies
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