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The New University sat down and spoke with Saosin bassist Chris Sorenson, whose band is currently on tour with Underoath, and will hit the Bren Events Center on Saturday, Nov. 15. The Newport Beach native talks about life on tour, UC Irvine and the band's new album.

Using the word "heavy" would be putting it mildly when it comes to describing the Floridian metalcore quintet Underoath, who will be taking UC Irvine by storm at the Bren Events Center this Saturday. With its recently released sixth album, "Lost in the Sound of Separation," Underoath continues to show its hard-hitting aggression and penchant for crafting blistering soundscapes, with an onslaught of apocalyptic guitars and drums set to vocalist Spencer Chamberlain's hair-raising screams and Christian-themed lyrics.

Chino is a best friend, singer, dancer, comedian and loyal member of Puerto Rican gang the Sharks in UC Irvine's production of "West Side Story." He is also a fourth-year undergraduate student double- majoring in multicultural studies and drama.

Acrobatics Everyday sponsored an election day concert on Nov. 4 at the Phoenix Food Court, featuring performances by Parts and Labor, Gowns, White Fang and Thanksgiving.

Reviews of The Cure's "4:13 Dream" and Deerhunter's "Microcastle".

On Halloween, the UC Irvine Drama Department showed how it celebrates the holiday. There was no candy or "monster mash" to be found, but blood was definitely present in the department's Oct. 31 production of "Titus Andronicus."

You wouldn't think a film with a title as blunt as "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" would be this season's mushiest movie, but there is an undeniable charm sprinkled throughout Kevin Smith's latest post-Jersey flick, somewhere between the anal sex and bubbles blown from below the belt.

After countless beta teases and an aggravating world-wide delay, Media Molecule's "LittleBigPlanet" is finally accessible for all gamers who own a Playstation 3, and it has been well worth the wait. This game is beyond phenomenal; it has so greatly exceeded expectations since its release last week that a sequel is already in the works.

Reviews: Snow Patrol's "A Hundred Million Suns"; Bloc Party's "Intimacy."

In 1980, the revolutionary album "Back in Black" was released, packed with sharp, staccato riffs and punkish screams. Now, 28 years later, that infectious sound has returned. AC/DC has rolled back the years, and once again brought out the schoolboy outfit to create "Black Ice," which can be considered as the sequel to Back in Black.

A crowd of eager punk rockers, hipsters and music fans gathered at UC Irvine last Tuesday to participate in a question and answer session with legendary musician Ian MacKaye, organized by the non-profit campus group Acrobatics Everyday. MacKaye is best known in the music world as the frontman of "straight edge" punk bands such as Minor Threat, The Teen Idles, Fugazi and The Evens. He is also the founder and owner of the independent rock label Dischord Records.

t seems as though with the release of "Synecdoche, New York," the inevitable and long-awaited directorial debut from one of cinema's most prominent writers has finally come to pass. Charlie Kaufman creates a world where he plays puppet master for not only the verbal level of character interaction, but for the film's overall display as well. Kaufman's work is enhanced by the truly all-star cast, which runs the gamut of Oscar worthies to independent film starlets. While the audience experiences the stellar script materializing before its eyes, the content does, however, veer off course as things wind down into overly symbolic and somewhat impractical referential gestures.