Email Author Ben Mercer

2003 Stories by Ben Mercer

• Broken Social Scene

  published July 10, 2003

  In case just listening to the schizophrenic You Forgot It in People leaves you scratching your head, it comes equipped with an underlined... More >>

• Grandaddy

  published June 26, 2003

  Grandaddy's 2000 album, The Sophtware Slump, dripped with millennial dread: Pictures of broken keyboards on post-apocalyptic dirt floors... More >>

• Fog

  published June 12, 2003

  Ether Teeth is the second album of haphazardly assembled folk-hop from Fog, an alias for Minnesota solo act Andrew Broder. Glaringly... More >>

• Smog

  published May 8, 2003

  Though Smog's Bill Callahan has gradually progressed to a higher-fi sound and properly synchronized arrangements, he still tosses off unusual... More >>

• The Notwist

  published February 27, 2003

  The Notwist underwent an abrupt stylistic shift sometime in the mid-'90s, somewhere in Germany; their abrasive punk songs suddenly became a more... More >>

• Loose Fur

  published February 6, 2003

  With last year's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Jeff Tweedy led Wilco into less-tone/more-drone terrain, determined, it seems, to record the... More >>