Email Author Amelia Abreu

2000 Stories by Amelia Abreu

• Five for Fighting

  published December 28, 2000

  Guitar Rock Is Dead: The Need, The Need is Dead; Thrones, White Rabbit and Sperm Whale EPs; Chicks on Speed, The... More >>

• Dallas Stars

  published December 28, 2000

  Without question, 2000 was a good year for local music, as familiar faces and genuine surprises delivered the rock and didn't take it back. From... More >>

• Crit and Shap 2000

  published December 28, 2000

  Afew years ago, former New Times Los Angeles music editor Keven McAlester (who once held down the same post at the now-defunct Met)... More >>

• Black Hole Sons

  published November 30, 2000

  Awake and alert on a Sunday afternoon, Rhythm of Black Lines frontman Clint Newsom interviews like every unfamous rock musician should. He's... More >>

• Out & About

  published November 16, 2000

  Le Shok: While tight pants and white belts have become the leisure suit for the '00s, San Diego's Le Shok has taken the all-looks-no-hooks... More >>

• Rainer Maria

  published November 9, 2000

  By the time this goes to print, we'll have a new president. For the sake of pop music, let's hope that my requisite college-girl vote for Ralph... More >>

• Out & About

  published November 2, 2000

  Melt-Banana; 90 Day Men, Black Heart Procession: Although everyone is talking about Chicago these days, if you're looking for the best... More >>

• Out & About

  published October 26, 2000

  What will ultimately save Bratmobile from the riot girl ghetto of early '90s commercial nostalgia can be summed up in one word: balls. While their... More >>

• Modest Mouse

  published September 28, 2000

  FOR: "It took a lot of work to be the ass that I am," sings Isaac Brock on Modest Mouse's latest release, The Moon & Antarctica, and quite... More >>

• Paper Tigers

  published August 24, 2000

  It's a late night at Nomad Studios in Carrollton, where The Paper Chase's John Congleton works as a sound engineer. At the moment, he's sitting in... More >>

• The Fox and the Hounded

  published August 10, 2000

  It starts -- surprisingly, frustratingly -- with a question of etiquette, after half a dozen calls to the appropriate cell-phone number at the... More >>

• Holiday road

  published July 13, 2000

  Forget about all the other summer tours making their way across the country in convoys of plush buses and overloaded trailers. The real show of... More >>

• Critics' Picks

  published June 1, 2000

  The Makers In the past few months, The Makers have gotten unprecedented hype even though their act--like most of... More >>

• Sound mind

  published April 20, 2000

  Last July, kids from all over the world flocked to Olympia, Washington -- a city with a population half that of Denton -- solely to see music,... More >>

• Preview

  published April 13, 2000

  Sean Na Na, Ted Leo My father, a Cuban national and Dallas Public Schools educator, claims that the best... More >>

• Do you wanna dance?

  published March 9, 2000

  Last spring in Denton, Gregg Foreman -- long-legged and wolf-voiced frontman of The Delta 72 -- won my heart, along with that of everyone else in... More >>

• Good to Go!

  published February 10, 2000

  Unless you're a local punk enthusiast who perhaps spent some time studying the collective works of Rudolf Rocker and his "anarcho-syndicalism"... More >>

• Scene stealers

  published January 27, 2000

  It's been a full six months since Swivel and Blush last played together. Simply billed as the July 3 Show, it was the last of several set up by... More >>