Cover Story: Reality Bites
Ohio native is an ultra-man searching for Hardcore Zen
0 Comments · Wednesday, September 10, 2003
If you look in your local New Age book store or browse the philosophy/religion section at the nearby Book-a-Doodle mega mart, you'll notice that there are very few books with toilets on their cov
Pulp: We Love Life
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 21, 2001
It's a well-known story, at least in the UK, but as it's the stuff of heroes, it's worth repeating. In 1996 at the Brit Awards, England's equivalent to the Grammies, King-of-Pop Michael Jackso
Onstage: Everybody Walk the Dinosaur
Vegetarians, carnivores and kids have a gigantosaurus time with Lost World Exhibit
0 Comments · Thursday, July 12, 2001
Just beneath the jaws of a gigantosaurus, the biggest meat-eating dinosaur known to have roamed the earth, stands a round middle-aged woman in a floppy blue cotton hat and Bermuda shorts. Staring
Low/Dirty Three 'In the Fishtank'
CD of the Week
0 Comments · Thursday, May 31, 2001
Lots of plunking, strumming and sawing going on In the Fishtank, the new EP collaboration from Minnesota minimalists Low and Australian instrumental trio Dirty Three. On first listen, none of it s
Four new re-issues from The Band reviewed
CD of the Week
0 Comments · Thursday, May 24, 2001
Rock of Ages Moondog Matinee Northern Lights-Southern Cross Islands I'm a sucker for well-done CD re-issues. Give me bonus tracks, extensive liner notes, 20-bit remastering (whatever that is
Cover Story: Johnny Can You Hear Me?!
The Ox holds down the bottom end for one of the summer's Rock & Roll nostalgia tours
0 Comments · Thursday, May 24, 2001
It's the same thing every summer. Pick up the season's concert schedule and you'd swear it was the 1970s again. Had someone told me in '76 that, 25 years later, I'd still be able to see Deep
Richard Thompson's Action Packed: The Best of the Capitol Years
CD of the Week
0 Comments · Thursday, May 10, 2001
After three decades in the music business, you'd hardly think that Richard Thompson would require an introduction. But despite the fact that several of his records show up like cats 'round a tun
Music: Voice of Conscience
Don't put down Hazel Dickens
0 Comments · Thursday, May 10, 2001
On their groundbreaking, self-titled album of 1973, Bluegrass duo Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard performed a song penned by Dickens, "Don't Put Her Down, You Helped Put Her There." The feminis
Music: Head Easton
Rootsy singer/songwriter Tim Easton makes good with his latest CD
0 Comments · Thursday, April 19, 2001
There's a curious thing about the cover of Tim Easton's new CD, The Truth About Us. Right beneath the title and just to the right of the singer's name sits a row of three stars, as if the album
Love's Forever Changes
Web Feature: CD of the Week
0 Comments · Thursday, April 12, 2001
Admittedly, we're not going out on a limb by making Love's Forever Changes -- a bona fide classic -- our CD of the week. We do have a good excuse, though, as the album has just been remastered,
