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2004 Archive

Issue 19 -- January 2004

Interviews

The Books, The Decemberists, Last Night's TV, Tam Dean Burn, Craig Thompson, Martin Roach

Film

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Music

Live Reviews (The Flaming Lips/The White Stripes, Isobel Campbell/Bill Wells/Roddy Hart), Music Reviews (Accelera Deck, Jamie Barnes, Brando, Camera Obscura, Tom Heinl, Pro Audio, Romantic and Square Is Hip and Aware: A Matinee Tribute to The Smiths, Rothko and Blk w/Bear, Spiders From Venus, The Steinbecks)

Other things

Short Stories (Behind the Music, Shattered, Only the Good Die Young), Book Review (Peanutbutter & Jeremy's Best Book Ever!)

Special Feature - What We Loved Most in 2003

Favorite Movies of 2003, Best DVDs of 2003, Guilty Pleasures on Television in 2003, Favorite Music of 2003, Best Music of 2003 (includes interviews with Heth and Dark Little Rooms), Musical Choices of 2003, Top 20 Pop Songs of 2003, Top 10 Albums, Top 5 Concerts of 2003, Best Music of 2003, Top 10 Singles, Top 10 Albums and more, Favorite Albums of 2003, Favorites of Everything of 2003, Best of 2003 List, 2003: The Year of the Zapatista Anniversaries

Issue 20 -- February 2004

Interviews

The Skatalites' Lloyd Brevett, Red Bee Society, Purple Paul (first cannabis coffee shop owner in Scotland)

Film

Mean Streets, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Paul Westerberg's Come Feel Me Tremble DVD, Elephant, Monster, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the Oscars, Siddiq Barmak's film Osama

Music

Live Reviews (Old 97s, Rilo Kiley), Music Reviews (Stereolab, The Mountain Goats, Foreign Legion, Grant-Lee Phillips, Entre Rios, Ness, The Album Leaf, Cabrini, Carte Blanche, Cathari, Tempertwig/Air Formation, Boyracer, Harold Budd, The Gena Rowlands Band, IfIHadAHifi, Lycia, Shmat Records: A Map of the Woods, The Smittens, Danger Mouse, Dave Douglas, Dub Narcotic Sound System, Ghost, Group Sounds, Alan Watts), Brief Reviews of Relatively Recent Recordings (The Buttless Chaps, The Cling, Corn Crop and the Seven Donkeys, Dream Into Dust, The Dutch Flat, The Larch, Manta Ray, The Mighty Stars, Pansy Division, Phantom Tollbooth, Red Bee Society, Selfmademan, The Shifties, Tigerella, The Tyrades, Via, and Steve Wilson)

Other things

Book Reviews (Mie Morimoto's Birth and Present: A Studio Portrait of Yoshitomo Nara, The Hidden God: Film and Faith, New York Architecture: A History), Champion City Comics (Zoo Force: Dear Eniko and Man is Vox: Barracudae)

Issue 21 -- March 2004

Interviews

Moonbabies (Ola Frick), Looper (Stuart David), Travis Morrison (ex-Dismemberment Plan)

Film

The Iron Giant, Gridlock'd, Running on Empty, Ingmar Bergman's Dreams

Music

Live Reviews (Randy Newman, Ninja Zen TV Tour), Dave Blood (Dead Milkmen), Liars,Eugene Kelly, Meat Loaf, The Procussions, The Elected, The Feenom Circle, Nectarine No 9, Monorail Fence Monorail, Anthemic Pop Wonder, The Safes, Namelessnumberheadman, TV On the Radio, Dizzee Rascal, KISS, Definitive Jux Presents III, Kalimoto, Sufjan Stevens, Calamatuer, Andrew Bird, Jim Byrnes, Caramel Jack, John Cunningham, Maggie Holland, Rich Hopkins And Luminaroos, John Guilt, Quiet Loner, Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, James Varda, The Volebeats, Amy Wadge, Jenny Whiteley, Boyracer, DJ Ordeal, Harris, Mark Robinson, The Darkness, Howie Day, Jay-Z, Jason Anderson, El-P, Mahjongg, Pipas, Tulsa Drone, Bingo, Circus Devils, The Diskettes, Hospital Grade, Manual with Jess Kahr, Marizane, Mocean Worker, Shumai, The Silent League, Tears in X-Ray Eyes

Other things

Champion City Comics (Dub Trub: Our World Is In Danger Now)

Issue 22 -- April 2004

Interviews

John Cavanagh

Film

Ae Fond Kiss, The Agronomist, Spartan, Out of Sight, Big Trouble in Little China

Music

Moving in Stereo 3, The Selecter Acoustic live, Guided by Voices break-up, Future Pilot Aka, Huckster, Manishevitz, Eyedea and Abilities, Sharkey, Sound Providers, Johnny Cash, Black Time, Vast Aire, Devendra Banhart, CocoRosie, Calla, Of Montreal, Sekiden, Voodoo Child, The Decemberists, The Fence Collective, Homescience, Pale Horse and Rider, Belle and Sebastian, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Broken Spindles, The Caribbean, Iron and Wine, Mirah with the Black Cat Orchestra, Robert Pollard, The Spectacular Fantastic

Other things

Book Reviews (Martin Roach's Morphing the Blues: The White Stripes and the Strange Relevance of Detroit, Luke Sutherland's Venus as a Boy, Helen Walsh's Brass, ZZ Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere), Champion City Comics (Numbers: A Tale of Shades and Angels)

Issue 23 -- May 2004

Interviews

Fence Records, Douglas MacIntyre (Creeping Bent), Barbara Morgenstern, Kalimoto

Film

5 Films About Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Chungking Express

Music

20 Underrated Hip-Hop Albums, Moving in Stereo volume 4, Live Reviews (Lone Pigeon, Pip Dylan, The Acoustic Vera Cruise; A Triptych Weekend), Major, Breaking Laces, Mirah, Mus, Phosphene, Carolyn Mark and the New Best Friends, Astrid, The Contrast, Jamie Hoover/Bill Lloyd, Rob Reynolds, Barb Waters, Eluvium, Francis Albert Machine, Li'l Cap'n Travis, Applecraft, Aveo, Deadstring Brothers, The Happiness Factor, Jeff Kelly, 15.60.75 (The Numbers Band), Kon and Amir, Mům, Organic Thoughts, Schooner

Other things

Book Reviews (Ged Simmons, The Gravedigger's Story; Williams, The Last Road Race – The 1957 Pescara Grand Prix; Alan Moore, Voice of the Fire), Champion City Comics (Mike Sullivan, Virtual Infinity Comics Presents: Intermezzo)

Issue 24 -- June 2004

Interviews

David Murphy (Sound Tribe Sector 9), Alec Downie (Nemis), Thomas "TC" Campbell, Sharkey, Jad Fair, When Fair Trade Means Peace

Film

Manufacturing Consent, The Cooler

Music

Moving in Stereo volumes 5 & 6, Sonic Youth, Galaxie 500, Live Reviews (Terra Diablo, We Rock Like Girls Don't, Red Bee Society; Edwyn Collins, The Alexander Brothers, Jad Fair and Lumberob,Alleschwindel, Aether Flux , School's Out featuring Belle & Sebastian/The Trashcan Sinatras/Camera Obscura/V-Twin/Mother & The Addicts/The James Orr Complex, The Beat, Bob Dylan), Tilly and the Wall, Down With Hyperbole (essay), The Album Leaf, Colin Clary and the Magogs, The Like Young, Pere Ubu, Superfallingstars, The Capsules, Architecture in Helsinki, Black Dice, Maleza, Sigur Rňs, Tangiers, Ave Marina, Delivery Room, Pants Yell!, Pepito, Mark Tranmer, Reverend Horton Heat, International Airport, Masta Killa

Other things

The Beat Generation, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Book Reviews (Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker, Amélie Nothomb's The Book of Proper Names, Etgar Keret and Samir El-Youssef's Gaza Blues, Suhayl Saadi's Psychoraag),

Issue 25 -- July/August 2004

Interviews

Suhayl Saadi, Colin Blunstone of the Zombies, Joseph Kyle of Mundane Sounds, Mark Askwith, Sarah Lowndes

Film

The Story of the Weeping Camel, Tucker

Music

Live Reviews (Toots and the Maytals, The Magic Band/Fire Engines, Jimmy Cliff/Siobhan Parr), Carl Newman and Dan Bejar, Jonathan Richman, Fiery Furnaces, Would-Be-Goods, Fire Engines, Low, The M's, Pleasant Stitch, Astronaut, Crispy Ambulance, Drew Danburry, The Fall, The Flower Machine, For Stars, Ghostface, Hangar 18, Venetian Snares, X-ecutioners, The Fairways, Paris, The Places, Rollerball, The Clientele, For Against, Fuzzy Boombox v.2, David Kilgour, Rattling Wall Collective, 7L & Esoteric, Auburn Lull, Old 97's, Satellite 66, The Waxwings, Approach, The Damnwells, The Sadies, Shark Quest

Other things

Book Reviews (Mahmoud Saeed's Saddam City, Bruce Cumings' North Korea: Another Country, The Coma by Alex Garland, The Little White Car by Danuta de Rhodes, Whoever You Choose to Love, Social Sculpture by Sarah Lowndes, Louise Welsh's Tamburlaine Must Die), Champion City Comics (Ellium: Sword of the Dragon, Jason Moser and Dave Reynolds, The Avengers Disassembled #500: Chaos Part 1, Demo #8: Mixtape), Advertisement of Sorts (PunkVoter.com's Bush Vs. Kerry On the Issues)

Issue 26 -- September 2004

Interviews

Louise Welsh

Film

Napoleon Dynamite, Wanda, Wicker Park, Garden State, Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Music

Guided by Voices Live, Moving in Stereo 8, Northern State, Otasco, The Umbrella Sequence, Bjork, DJ Rels, Bill Janovitz and Crown Victoria, The Clientele, Francesco De Masi, Ennio Morricone, Mario Nascimbene, We Could Live in Hope: A Tribute to Low, Enemy Love, Escape Pod, Julian Fane, Food for Animals, Hey! Where'd the summer go?, New Radiant Storm King, Terrestre, Mike VanPortfleet, Slowly Minute, Bobby Darin, Ape House, Richard Buckner, David Dondero, The Eames Era, Garden State Soundtrack, Harper Lee, American Music Club, Devendra Banhart, Migala, Mudville, Bola Sete

Other things

Book Reviews (Edward Buscombe's Unforgiven - BFI Modern Classics, Craig Thompson's Carnet de Voyage, David Lane's Berlusconi's Shadow: Crime, Justice and the Pursuit of Power, James Kelman's You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free, Erica Kennedy's Bling, John King's The Prison House

Issue 27 -- October 2004

Interviews

Carole King, Pete Doctor (Monster's Inc.), Tom Wilson Jr. (Ziggy), Greg Evans (Luann), Kalle Lans (Adbusters), Bill Amend (Fox Trot)

Film

The Insider, Friday Night Lights, Weerasethakul's Films Tropical Malady and Blissfully Yours, Hard Core Logo

Music

Talib Kweli, Cub Country, Dreamend, DJ Krush, Jean Grae, IsWhat?!, Little Darla Has a Treat For You v. 22, Ovum: The Fall Collection, The Roots, Wolf Eyes, Melodic Scribes, Juliana Hatfield, Human Hands, Remake Remodel, Preserve Volume One, Camera Obscura, Graves, The Guild League, Manual & Syntaks, The Minders, Vote For Change (Bruce Springsteen, REM Live Review), Moving in Stereo Vol 9, Trashcan Sinatras, Skooshny, The Primary 5/Ally Kerr (Live Review), Blanket Music, Coastal, El Muniria, Jedi Mind Tricks, Lovejoy, Luna, The Organ, Outerspace, The Primary 5, Sister Flo

Other things

Book Reviews (Joe Sacco's The Fixer, Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return, Jon Link and Mick Bunnage's Modern Toss, Zoe Strachan's Spin Cycle, The Knuckle End: An Anthology of Emerging Scottish Literary Talent edited by Adrian Searle, Ben Myers' John Lydon: The Sex Pistols, PiL & Anti-Celebrity, Gideon Sams' The Punk

Issue 28 -- November 2004

Interviews

Brad Anderson (Marmaduke), Steven Thomson (Glasgay!), Frank Reader (Trashcan Sinatras)

Film

I Heart Huckabees, Team America World Police, Jandek on Corwood, The Abyss, Alfie, The Grudge, Take My Eyes, The Incredibles, Ray

Music

The Capstan Shafts, A. Graham & the Moment Band, Invisible, Loveless, Summer Set, Sunsets and Silhouettes, Pavement, Penny Arcade’s Bad Reputations/Late Night Review, Ela, Skating Club, Trashcan Sinatras, Boyracer, Entrance, A Houseguest's Wish: Translations of Wire's 'Outdoor Miner', Postal Blue, The Visitations, Corrina Repp, Sigur Ros, Ant, Panda Bear, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti 2, 22 Brief Reviews (Action Now, Simon Apple, Atomic 7, Blue Sparks, Carmen Borgia, Comunique, Diffuse Light, El Jefe, Extended Play, The Flesh, DW Holiday, Dustin James, Rob Levit, The Loves, Bill Madden, MC Idobelus, Anders Parker, Pot Luck, Soap Star Joe, State Shirt, This Is a Process of a Still Life, Twinkie), Son Ambulance, Wire, Casaverde, The Icicles, Bill Santen, Singapore Sling, Water School

Other things

Books (Putin’s Russia by Anna Politkovskaya, Des Dillon's The Glasgow Dragon, Matthew Collin's This Is Serbia Calling, Ray Gosling's Sum Total, Choman Hardi's Life for Us, L A Naylor's Judge for Yourself, and Mary Oliver's Wild Geese), Comics (Demo #11: Midnight to Six, The Crazing Spider-Hag)

Issue 29 -- December 2004

Interviews

David Scott (The Pearlfishers), Jim McCullock (Green Peppers)

Film

The Polar Express, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, National Treasure, Ocean's Twelve, Let's Get Lost, Lemony Snicket

Music

Moving in Stereo vol. 10, The Winter Blanket, Green Peppers, Carl Henry Brueggen, It's a Team Mint Xmas Vol. 2!, My Favorite Song Writers, The Pearlfishers, Ponies in the Surf, Silvercord, Things in Herds, Alex Keller and Meri von KleinSmid, Okkervil River, Modulator, Frog Eyes, Mannipulator Alligator, Minus 5, The Mutts, Soltero, My Morning Jacket, Sauna Kings, Someone Else

Other things

Mehfil, Books (Greg Philo and Mike Berry's Bad News from Israel, Karen Lystra's Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years, David Sedaris'Santaland Diaries, Suhayl Saadi's The White Cliffs, Stevie Davies' Kith and Kin)


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