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2002 Stories by Zac Crain

• Hip-Hop Family Feud

  published July 18, 2002

  The Legendary Fritz and Headkrack tell completely different stories, with the same characters and a few similar plot points: Both... More >>

• Hide and Seek

  published July 11, 2002

  John Congleton and Matt Armstrong, otherwise known as one half of the pAper chAse, sit in a tiny, cluttered recording studio, otherwise known as... More >>

• Gotta Have Faith

  published July 11, 2002

  To be honest, most (OK, fine, all) of what we know about how our city works--or doesn't, usually--comes from what we hear star columnist Jim... More >>

• The Flaming Lips

  published July 11, 2002

  The OK trio's second disc since reimagining itself on 1997's Zaireeka, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is casually electronic and... More >>

• Lesson Learned

  published June 27, 2002

  It's always been complicated for Ghetto Fame-Us. Time, money, whatever: Something always gets in the way. For example, the group finished... More >>

• Another Brick in the Wall

  published June 27, 2002

  It's probably true in other cities, but it might as well be gospel in Dallas: If you can make it here, well, you've probably already made it... More >>

• Various Artists

  published June 27, 2002

  At just under an hour, The Osbourne Family Album manages to give Jack and Kelly Osbourne's burgeoning music-biz gigs a boost (dour... More >>

• A Good Idea, But...

  published June 20, 2002

  We could ignore this, move on to something else for 800 or so words, make everyone happy. There are other things we could talk about. Say, Vanilla... More >>

• Looking Back

  published June 13, 2002

  The building at 508 Park Avenue isn't much of one, just a shell, really, not that different from the dozens of other abandoned husks... More >>

• K104 Summer Jam

  published June 13, 2002

  For the third weekend in a row, a local radio station throws its annual summer shindig, a pledge drive disguised as a present to the fans, a bash... More >>

• Raphael Saadiq

  published June 13, 2002

  Didn't take long for neo-soul or whatever you wanna call it--Raphael Saadiq prefers "gospeldelic," it seems--to become another ghetto, another... More >>

• Hack Factory

  published June 6, 2002

  True story and, come to think of it, we've probably told this one before: A couple of years ago, we went to see the Beastie Boys at the Fort Worth... More >>

• Guided By Voices

  published June 6, 2002

  Reasons why Guided By Voices' new Universal Truths and Cycles (due June 18) will be called a "return to form" or some such: Because it's... More >>

• Bad Business

  published May 30, 2002

  Here's how screwed up the music business is, in 100 words or less. You're likely familiar with this story. Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was... More >>

• Brave Combo

  published May 23, 2002

  Joe Cripps sits on the porch of his house near Argyle, a sweaty glass of Maker's Mark at his feet, a pile of dusty 45s by his side. It's early... More >>

• Pine Bluffing

  published May 23, 2002

  The old man onstage at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios--the guy with the face like a weathered catcher's mitt who is sitting in a wheelchair in... More >>

• Birthday Bash

  published May 23, 2002

  Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (better known to most as Arts Magnet High School) will host a 25th... More >>

• Deadman, Walking

  published May 16, 2002

  Steven Collins found what he was looking for at an abandoned Mexican porn theater an hour or so outside Los Angeles, 60 miles south on the seedy... More >>

• When East Meets West

  published May 16, 2002

  Ghetto Fame-Us has a new record in the can, And Then There Was Us!, a long-gestating sequel to 1999's Add On! (We're... More >>

• What To Do

  published May 9, 2002

  Everyone should have been asleep by then or, at least, getting there, and most had called it a night long ago, stumbling back to their hotels and... More >>

• Turn Up the Volume

  published May 9, 2002

  Best new band we've come across in a while: Robot Monster Weekend. Performing here and there since late last year, Robot Monster Weekend... More >>

• Human Nature

  published May 2, 2002

  It's easy to make Damian Higgins laugh. Doesn't take much effort at all, really. The key, as it turns out, is to question how much work it... More >>

• Pick It Up

  published May 2, 2002

  [DARYL] and Slowride's month-and-change tour of the better part of the country makes a pit stop in Dallas on May 2 so the bands can... More >>

• Drive Away

  published April 25, 2002

  Tony Hajjar is in Vancouver, recording a new album with his band, which is exactly where he should be and not where you'd expect. Let's back... More >>

• Give a Little

  published April 25, 2002

  Buncha benefits happening around D-D-FW this week and next. First up is a shindig for the Denton Humane Society at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal... More >>