Pages tagged “issue 11”

Resolution for the BoDeans

By Dave Sims on 12:00 AM on August 1, 2004

Roots rock has always been an exercise in optimism, a simple belief in the eternal resilience of a heartfelt lyric and a well-timed riff... read more

Found in: Music, Features

Waylon Payne

By Clay Steakley on 12:00 AM on August 1, 2004

Waylon Payne grew up around the people many artists spend their lives imitating. His mother is outlaw-country songstress Sammi Smith... read more

Found in: Music, Features

Merlefest 2004

By Cory Albertson on 12:00 AM on August 1, 2004

There’s a mountain chill in the air on this first Saturday of May, and The Walker Center—located ‘on high’ overlooking the Wilkes Community College campus... read more

Found in: Music, Features

John Lee Hooker

By Elliott Stephen Cohen on 12:00 AM on August 1, 2004

Archival blues material, once the tiny domain inhabited by collectors of dusty old 78s in flea markets, garage sales and back pages of specialty publications like Goldmine... read more

Found in: Music, Features

Standing By Words

By Philip Christman on 12:00 AM on August 1, 2004

“I seem incapable of writing a story in which people do not babble philosophically,” the late John Gardner once joked... read more

Found in: Books, Features

Love Saves the Day: A History...

By Philip Christman on 12:00 AM on August 1, 2004

1970s dance culture—i.e., disco—persistently occupies the summit of what’s considered tacky, false and elitist, the slickly gleaming antithesis of punk and rap... read more

Found in: Books, Reviews

Morrissey - You Are The Quarry

By Kurt B. Reighley on 12:00 AM on August 1, 2004

Unless you’re a sullen suburban teen of a very particular stripe, or one of his unshakeable Latino fans, you gave up on Morrissey ages ago... read more

Found in: Music, Reviews

Dios - Dios

By Josh Baron on 12:00 AM on August 1, 2004

Considering the fact that “dios” means “god” in Spanish, this SoCal band’s musical religion is nothing short of polytheistic... read more

Found in: Music, Reviews

The Corporation

By Robert Davis on 12:00 AM on August 1, 2004

Movie theaters are certainly brimming with political documentaries these days, but few of them are as sweeping in scope as The Corporation... read more

Found in: Movies, Reviews