Email Author Zac Crain

2002 Stories by Zac Crain

• A Marked Man

  published January 31, 2002

  Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to have "motherfucker" tattooed on the side of your neck. Don't even think we have to get the churchgoers out... More >>

• Cat Calls

  published January 24, 2002

  Listen to enough musicians talk about being musicians, with their anecdotes about shows with a dozen people in the audience and broken-down vans... More >>

• In a Trance

  published January 24, 2002

  The last time we saw Shawn Francis he was walking around the streets of Austin during South by Southwest wearing a badge around his neck... More >>

• The Cure

  published January 17, 2002

  A week before his show at the Gypsy Tea Room, Nate Fowler said he was finally "ready to get back in the park and play ball," and many of his... More >>

• For the Birds

  published January 17, 2002

  El Gato will celebrate the release of its first full-length, We're Birds, on January 18 at the Gypsy Tea Room, with a shindig... More >>

• Hear Here

  published January 10, 2002

  It was a strange year, no doubt about it. Think about it: 2001 began with word of the first Toadies release in some seven years. By August, the... More >>

• Crit & Shap

  published January 10, 2002

  For the past few years, we've polled the Dallas Observer's stable of music writers to determine how full of shit the bottom of the barrel... More >>

• Bad Ideas, Inc.

  published January 10, 2002

  Best sign that program director Scott Strong and the gents over at Susquehanna Radio Corp. have given up on the station located at 93.3 on your FM... More >>

• Hear This

  published January 3, 2002

  This isn't as easy as it should be--as it would have been, say, four months ago. I listen to records for a living--that's how my folks see it,... More >>