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The Replacements: New bands in old niches

Modest Mouse started this year the same way The Flaming Lips started 2002-a band whose optimistic indie rock had, for years, deemed them the next big thing. Finally, after a string of critically acclaimed albums which had never amounted to a commercial success, the Lips pushed through with Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. This was echoed two years later by Modest Mouse, when Good News for People Who Like Bad News brought the band from indie icons to mainstream ones. Modest Mouse has effectively become this year's Flaming Lips. 

'Code 46' not worth cracking

With his new film \Code 46,"" maverick director Michael Winterbottom proves that he not only shuns the idea of working in the same genre twice; he flat-out refuses to take his audience to the same place again. 

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Efforts around campus to register young voters for the upcoming elections seemed admirable and appropriate to me. That is, until my neighbor peed on his house. 

Morrison lyrics carry post \Plan\

Interpol follow-up as gloomy as ever

Clash still urgent 25 year

The Clash 

Yo La Tengo: 'El Presidente es loco, no nos gusta'

THE EVOLUTION OF PROTEST!

Much has changed at UW-Madison since the Vietnam era. Bandanas have gone from helping protesters brave tear gas clouds on Library Mall to adorning the hair of coeds. Bob Dylan has gone from an emblematic musician to a creepy old man from Victoria's Secret commercials. But through it all, a penchant for political expression among UW students has endured. 

Green Day reinvents self

Green Day  

Steve Earle reinvents self

Steve Earle  

Poker's gritty past folds to new, flashy fads

That big gray monster, this mass co-opting culture of yours and mine, the same thing that ate up the '60s, punk, hip-hop and Tolkien, is eating up poker. It has given poker as much glitz as Jessica Simpson. And it is a sad thing. We, as poker-playing UW-Madison students, should be conscious of this drastic change in a storied American tradition, because it shows just how much mass pop culture shapes us.  

Uchill previews anticipated summer music releases

You are off for the summer. Musicians aren't. Midway through what has been an impressive music year, some of the best and most anticipated music is primed to come out. Here are just a few of the albums all the kids will own by fall semester. 

'Cope Park' draws from grunge legends

The Killers next victim: the United States

Future synth-pop icons The Killers have had a good year.  

Party in the Park headliner Califone answers the call of the Madison crowd

Stellastarr* fall on Madison

\We get that a lot."" 

Franz Ferdinand album eponymous fun

The monster on State Street

Spring break is over and as students filter back for the second half of the semester, State Street is also entering another stage of its entertainment district evolution as the Overture Center enters Phase II of its construction. This time it's two restaurants that are facing their final days as March draws to a close. 

TV on the Radio on the rise

At least this time the media were ready for it. Last year's TV on the Radio album was a total surprise to most of the critics who would love the album. Instead the EP began to make TV on the Radio's follow up, their first full-length album, the most anticipated album not recorded by a band named Wilco. was an early candidate for 2004's album of the year.  

Galactic causes 'Ruckus' in Madtown

This Friday, the jazz-funk-rock band Galactic will bring their original sound to the Barrymore Theatre, 2090 Atwood Ave.