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1998 Stories by Zac Crain

• Down in the tube station

  published March 5, 1998

  Mary Lou Lord's story almost sounds like the plot of a Dickens novel, or at least the bastardized Hollywood version of a Dickens novel: a scrappy,... More >>

• High Cotton

  published February 26, 1998

  In a city like Austin, the so-called "Live Music Capital of the World," it's easy for a band to get lost in the shuffle. There are scores of... More >>

• No Doubt about it

  published February 5, 1998

  An hour before Denton's Grown-Ups are set to take the stage at Emo's in Austin--the second show of their three-date reunion tour of Texas--an... More >>

• Let's play four

  published January 29, 1998

  The flustered clerk stood there with slack-jawed confusion, as if someone had just asked him whether he could mow the linoleum in the store. ... More >>

• Believe the hype

  published January 22, 1998

  It was an odd, unexpected sight at the Christmas party thrown this year in Austin by Hamstein Publishing and Lone Wolf Management: the four... More >>

• Zac Crain's Top 10 Texas Albums:

  published January 8, 1998

  Too Far To Care, The Old 97's (Elektra) UFOFU, UFOFU (Medicine) Redo The Stacks, Centro-matic (Steve) The Twelve-Point... More >>

• Zac Crain's Top 10 National Albums:

  published January 1, 1998

  OK Computer, Radiohead (Capitol) Tone Soul Evolution, The Apples in Stereo (SpinART) Urban Hymns, The Verve (Hut/Virgin) The... More >>