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Carina Round

By Tom Lanham on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

She’s a diminutive, soft-spoken acoustic guitarist with a penchant for quirky thrift-shop clothes, and she hails from the seedy crime-ridden Low Hill area of the tiny British burg of Wolverhampton... read more

Mary Chapin Carpenter

By j. poet on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

Mary Chapin Carpenter has her Grammys and CMA awards, but between tours she avoids the spotlight and keeps a low profile... read more

Grey De Lisle

By Tom Lanham on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

In a shimmering crystal-blue trill that conjures up visions of an antebellum Dolly Parton fanning herself on some plantation porch, SoCal songbird Grey De Lisle warbles gorgeous Gothic originals... read more

Thax

By Julie Simmons on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

Revered Portland, Ore., folk-rock artist, M. Ward, is ready to begin his set. But first, a 46-year-old man with a wiry gray beard, baseball cap and khaki-colored jacket lumbers across the stage... read more

Karrin Allyson

By j. poet on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

Like all great jazz singers, Karrin Allyson makes it look easy. When she sings, she opens her heart, delivering lyrics as if they were secrets meant for your ears only... read more

Bob Schneider

By Lynne Margolis on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

Bob Schneider’s latest album, I’m Good Now, was supposed to be released last year, while he was still with Universal. But mega-label mathematicians decided projected sales of 250,000 units wasn’t enough... read more

Dexter Romweber

By Steve LaBate on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

In the midst of the Saturday-night madness at Austin, Texas’ SXSW music festival, Dexter Romweber walks in through the back door of The Jackalope... read more

Melissa Auf Der Maur

By Tom Lanham on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

A couple years ago, Montreal-born bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur was re-examining her life, attempting to map out the circuitous path that led her from home... read more

Finding Gomez

By Jay Moye on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

One night back in 1996, a nameless garage band played its first-ever gig at a tiny social club in Leeds, England. The group of young Brits were worried one of their friends wouldn’t be able to find the place... read more

Scandinavia’s Trio Mediæval

By Thom Jurek on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

A sound winds across history, whispering from the north of Europe, echoing through the silences of its ruined churches and cloisters... read more

Sam Bush's Newest Grass Revival

By Jeff Wall on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

“We’re not a bluegrass band,” says Sam Bush. “We’re a rock ’n’ roll band that just happens to know a handful of bluegrass tunes.”... read more

Peter Himmelman

By Sean Lawrence on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

With rapier wit and a unique gift for composing sincere songs of absolutes, marital love and the “beyond reckoning” blessings of children... read more

Athlete

By Brian Quincy Newcomb on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

Given the “everybody wants to be part of the rock scene” hook of Athlete’s first single, “Westside,” you’d think the band had written the song about Austin, Texas’ SXSW... read more

Bernie Leadon

By Jim Nelson on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

The Eagles plan to finally release a new studio album later this year, but if Bernie Leadon was asked to rejoin the group he helped found in 1971... read more

David Byrne

By Tom Lanham on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

Strolling through the back alleys of his native New York recently, ex-Talking Heads titan David Byrne happened upon a quaint curiosity... read more

Franz Ferdinand

By Tom Lanham on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

“Ready…Set…Go!"... read more

the subdudes

By Charlene Blevins on 12:00 AM on June 1, 2004

Post-impressionist painter Paul Gauguin once said, “In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.” But it was Thomas Edison who really hit the heart of creativity. When asked by a Harper’s journalist in 1934 what laboratory rules Edison wanted him to observe, Edison bristled, “Hell! There ain’t no rules around here! We’re trying to accomplish somep’n!” The subdudes surely qualify for mastery under Gauguin’s definition. They took their collective musical heritage of raucous Louisiana roots rock, shook it up in a gris-gris bag... read more