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Ladytron
Light & Magic (Emperor Norton)
By Ben Mercer
Published: November 14, 2002
Ladytron makes music simultaneously from decades past and decades yet to come. Their layered beats and hovercraft grooves suggest the morning radio of an anonymous metropolis...
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Hot Stuff
The lighthearted Wasabi offers real kicks
By Andy Klein
Published: November 14, 2002
A tough Paris cop (Jean Reno) flies to Tokyo for the funeral of his great lost love, only to find out that she has left him in charge of the rebellious teen-age daughter (Ryoko...
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Sondre Lerche
Faces Down (Astralwerks)
By Mikael Wood
Published: November 14, 2002
Wondering what Beck's gonna sound like with Oklahoma psych-pop nuts the Flaming Lips as his backing band? This 20-year-old Norwegian kid's already figured it out: On Faces...
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Like Father, Like Hell
Mexican priests make it hurt so good in El Crimen del Padre Amaro
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: November 14, 2002
It is the essential sexiness of holy archetypes that stirs up a ruckus in Carlos Carrera's competent if unremarkable tragedy, adapted by screenwriter Vicente Lenero from the...
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Clem Snide
You Were a Diamond (spinART)
By Ben Mercer
Published: November 14, 2002
Clem Snide reached new heights with last year's The Ghost of Fashion, which contained, among other highlights, an elegant tale of a suburban first love ("Joan Jett of Arc") and...
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Movie Magic
This 1946 version of Beauty and the Beast is enchantingly fantastic
By Jean Oppenheimer
Published: November 14, 2002
So enchanting it takes your breath away, Jean Cocteau's 1946 live-action version of the famous fairy tale remains one of the most magical films ever made. Boasting a new print,...
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Critics' Picks
X
November 14
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 14, 2002
It's the unimaginable, the fucking unfathomable--X, reunited 'cause it feels so good, playing live after on-and-off years of playing dead, or at least going solo (or fixing...
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Beck, the Flaming Lips
November 14
By Zac Crain
Published: November 14, 2002
If it's a surprise that Beck follows his least necessary album (1999's Midnite Vultures, where he tried so hard to be Prince he seemed on the verge of ditching his name in...
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New Found Glory
November 17
By Mikael Wood
Published: November 14, 2002
Every time I accidentally catch the twin brothers who front Good Charlotte hosting MTV2's All Things Rock (which is never more than twice a week, promise) I say a little prayer...
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The Strokes
November 16
By Mikael Wood
Published: November 14, 2002
Though they've spent the past year playing relatively big-ass rooms like the one they'll play here Saturday night, don't the Strokes seem like a smaller, cooler rock band today...
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India.Arie, Slum Village, Floetry
November 14
By Mikael Wood
Published: November 14, 2002
Thursday night's the night for rounded-edge hip-hop that soothes as much as it moves. When Atlanta-based headliner India.Arie appeared last year with Acoustic Soul (following...
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Seldom and The Velvet Teen
November 16
By Shannon Sutlief
Published: November 14, 2002
Is David Bazan--ringleader of Pedro the Lion, this show's headliner--a masochist or just a blind supporter of new talent? We present the evidence. Exhibit A: Seldom. The...
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Rilo Kiley
November 18
By Mikael Wood
Published: November 14, 2002
For all the problems the mainstreaming of emo has created--the validation of high school whining as high art, say, or the Get Up Kids' and the Promise Ring's hiring big-name...
