Pages tagged “issue 8”

Howie Day

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

Bang her?” asks singer-songwriter Howie Day, accentuating his native Maine bark, “I just met her!” It’s a joke he’s heard thousands of times. Growing up in Bangor, he says, “There wasn’t much to do. We threw a lot of rocks off bridges."... read more

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Ruthie Foster

By Josh Jackson on 12:00 AM on February 1, 2004

Ruthie Foster and her musical partner, Cyd Cassone, sip rum and Cokes near the window—one of the only places in the country bar lit by more than the red neon Budweiser sign... read more

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Elbow

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

So who is that sharp-dressed man over there, lunching on the posh hotel patio? Some visiting CEO, calling up his weekly appointments on his Palm Pilot? A traveling sales rep, working up his latest bargain-basement pitch?... read more

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These Kids Are Alright

By Josh Jackson on 12:00 AM on February 1, 2004

Our Feb/March issue features four of our favorite young artists (counterclockwise from bottom left): Erin McKeown, Josh Ritter, Kathleen Edwards and Sondre Lerche. We brought them together for a photo shoot in New York's Chinatown. read more

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These Kids Are Alright

By Josh Jackson on 12:00 AM on February 1, 2004

Erin McKeown is nothing if not surprising: the quiet girl wearing the Fluevogs and an impish smile is also the Brown-educated multi-instrumentalist who writes gorgeous, literate pop songs and looms much larger than her petite five-foot frame... read more

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A Death in the Family

By Matt Fink on 12:00 AM on February 1, 2004

For those of us who knew him only through his songs, the unwelcome news of Elliott Smith’s suicide on the morning of October 21 last year might not have been completely shocking; anyone who listened closely to his lyrics tended to worry about him... read more

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Starsailor

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

These young Brits lured legendary producer Phil Spector out of a 20-year retirement ... then mustered the nerve to fire him... read more

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Califone Dreams of the Heron King

By John Schacht on 12:00 AM on February 1, 2004

It’s fitting that Califone’s new record, Heron King Blues, get its inspiration from the mists of antiquity and the dream world of band-founder Tim Rutili, since this is a group whose music virtually defies time... read more

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Jem

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

No, shrugs Jem, she has nothing to do with the same-titled ’80s cartoon, wherein a pink-haired pop-rock vixen and her band the Holograms battled a bitchy trio called The Misfits every episode... read more

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Terry Allen

By Rosie Carter on 12:00 AM on February 1, 2004

“You can go more places making stuff than you can just sitting around waiting to take it,” Terry Allen says, kicked back in a booth at a neighborhood bar in Santa Fe, New Mexico... read more

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