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Gonzalez
Icing's for Cake
No hockey? Oh, what will we do now?
By John Gonzalez
Published: December 9, 2004
My friends are slow. It's a sad fact, but it's also indisputable. They're not "show up late because they can't get ready" slow. More like "the brain cells they have aren't...
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Gwen Stefani
Love, Angel, Music, Baby (Interscope)
By Mikael Wood
Published: December 9, 2004
Gwen Stefani's obsession with material wealth borders on the pathological on Love, Angel, Music, Baby, the No Doubt front woman's solo debut: She has her "million-dollar...
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Sports/Outdoors
Rock 'n' Run
Marathon men and women of White Rock
Published: December 9, 2004
12/11 Joggers can be some selfish sons of bitches. No, we're serious. Pick up a copy of Runner's World and read their opinion columns, where some self-absorbed jerk will...
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You Said It
Letters
Published: December 9, 2004
Cowboys, Not Men Jerks: I can't begin to tell you how glad I was to read your article about some of the Dallas Cowboys leaving an anonymous letter trashing the sports writer...
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Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz
Crunk Juice (TVT)
By Geoff Harkness
Published: December 9, 2004
Being at the fore of rap's hottest trend comes with perks. Those perks can be found on Crunk Juice, Lil Jon's fifth full-length, which features an A-list roster of rap...
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See/Be Seen
A Blue Christmas
The MAC's cool yule
Published: December 9, 2004
12/11 Tired of hearing that same damn Christmas song come out of your worn 1988 Oliver & Company McDonald's limited-time-only ornament? Does your Christmas spruce need a...
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John Guliak
7 Stories and 13 Songs (Mint)
By Darryl Smyers
Published: December 9, 2004
"I've been running out of stories/I've been stealing Tom Waits songs," sings Canadian John Guliak on the title track of this thoughtful, funny and rootsy effort. With a voice...
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Performance
None the Wiser
Clowning toward Bethlehem
Published: December 9, 2004
12/9 Let's say, for the moment, that you're the Christ child. You are accustomed to being portrayed in solemn Nativity scenes, robust with ceremony. Then one December--this...
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Kelly Clarkson
Breakaway (RCA)
By Annie Zaleski
Published: December 9, 2004
To those who feel American Idol represents the worst aspects of the pop-music assembly line, Kelly Clarkson is just another Mariah Carey clone. But the Burleson girl's...
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The Soft Pink Truth
Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth? (Tigerbeat6)
By Philip Sheburne
Published: December 9, 2004
On the surface, much of Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth? is an album of electro-pop covers of punk songs from Drew Daniel--ex-punk rocker, current...
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Set List
One at a Time: A Singer/Songwriter Night
Monday, November 29, at Rubber Gloves
By Lyndsay Knecht
Published: December 9, 2004
At any town meeting, you have your concerned citizens who speak from the podium and your rowdy folk hollerin' from their seats. The same was true at Denton's "One at a Time: A...
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Critics' Picks
Citizen Cope
Tuesday, December 14
By Mikael Wood
Published: December 9, 2004
On his self-titled 2002 debut as Citizen Cope, Clarence Greenwood (former DJ with backpack-rap stars Basehead) made like a more granola Everclear: a hip-hop dude dabbling in...
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Critics' Picks
The Exploited
Thursday, December 9
By Adam Bregman
Published: December 9, 2004
At this late date in the Exploited's punk rock career, you might expect to find the group in line for the dole, belching and chuckling. Could they possibly have anything to say...
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Sue Foley
Thursday, December 9
By Sarah Hepola
Published: December 9, 2004
There are so few genuinely talented female guitarists. A short list might include Nancy Wilson, Bonnie Raitt and, um, Lita Ford? But it would certainly include Sue Foley, the...
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Critics' Picks
Isis
Wednesday, December 15
By Michael Chamy
Published: December 9, 2004
Isis is for the metalheads. Isis is for the metal-haters. You know those parts in a Tool song when everything breaks down and fat layers of saturation bounce off each other...
