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Mark Heard

By Tim Porter on 12:00 AM on July 29, 2003

On Friday, August 16, 2002, some 35,000 fans from across the world gathered in Memphis, Tenn., to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of Elvis Aaron Presley. The following night, Pierce Pettis reminded a much smaller crowd at Eddie’s Attic in Decatur, Ga. (some 390 miles southeast) that Friday was also the 10th anniversary of singer-songwriter Mark Heard’s death. “Mark would have loved that he died on the same day as Elvis,” he added with a chuckle. Outside of Pettis’ covers, most of the crowd knew of neither the prolific and stellar work of Heard nor his perverse sense...  read more

Found in: Music, Features

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

By Tim Porter on 12:00 AM on March 10, 2003

Buffy, now entering its seventh season, is more than the standard teen drama so en vogue since Kevin Williamson rekindled and updated the devices of John Hughes in Scream.  read more

Found in: Movies, Features

Buddy Miller

By Pamela Winters on 12:00 AM on December 24, 2002

Buddy Miller's not one for big talk. Take Dogtown Studio, which occupies the downstairs of the Nashville home he shares with his writer-musician wife Julie...  read more

Found in: Music, Features

Sinead O'Connor

By Lori Lenz on 12:00 AM on December 24, 2002

Between 1987 and 1995, Sinead O’Connor was a prominent and controversial presence in the music industry. ...  read more

Found in: Music, Features

Doug Martsch

By Tim Sheridan on 12:00 AM on December 24, 2002

About half a minute into the loose-limbed slide guitar figure of "Window," a track on Doug Martsch’s excellent new solo album, Now You Know...  read more

Found in: Music, Features

Emily Saliers & Amy Ray

By Josh Jackson on 12:00 AM on December 24, 2002

On Tuesday nights in Decatur, Ga., patrons in the upscale Watershed restaurant tend to order only one thing -- the fried chicken. ...  read more

Found in: Music, Features

Kelly Willis

By Dan Macintosh on 12:00 AM on December 24, 2002

As music enthusiasts debate what exactly makes country music truly "country," Kelly Willis continues to bridge the gap...  read more

Found in: Music, Features

His Philadephia

By Kate Gutwein on 12:00 AM on December 24, 2002

When Denison Witmer wanted piano for a track on his latest CD, Philadelphia Songs, he did what any musician who might have watched Fletch too many times ...  read more

Found in: Music, Features

Aimee Mann

By Brian Baker on 9:46 AM on December 3, 2002

Aimee Mann is not the sort of person who dwells on the past with self-defeating bitterness or crippling regret. Whether it’s the natural resilience of her psyche or merely the emotional callous...  read more

Found in: Music, Features

Oasis

By Brian Baker on 12:00 AM on October 1, 2002

Although reviews of the new Oasis album, Heathen Chemistry, have been generally positive, a number of pundits have inferred (or outright shouted) that the album's biggest fault is...  read more

Found in: Music, Features