2003 Archive

Interviews

Vic Godard, David Mackenzie, Namelessnumberheadman, Aaron Ximm (Quiet American's One Minute Vacations), Monorail Record Shop (Stephen Pastel and Duglas T Stewart), Duke Fame, Paul Laverty

Film

Films of Martin Scorsese, Movie Reviews (8 Mile, Auto Focus, Bowling for Columbine, Femme Fatale, The Grey Zone, The Ring, The Rules of Attraction, Secretary, Star Trek: Nemesis, White Oleander), Structuralism (Michael Snow and Michael Kirby)

Music

Sauvie Island Moon Rocket Factory, Titan Moon, the Whiskey, Michael, Spiv, Sprawl, 8 Mile Soundtrack, Missy Elliott, MC Paul Barman, Christina Aguilera, The Angels of Light, The Carribean, Tobin Sprout, Reviews (Air Formation, Anthemic Pop Wonder, The Arrogants, Artisokka, Atomic 7, Ross Beach, Bon Voyage, Bronze, California Snow Story, Calla, Circus Devils, Coronet Blue, The Damn Personals/The Kickovers, The Damnwells, The Dirtmitts, Don't Know When I'll Be Back Again, Shari Elf, Amy Fabry, Fairburn Royals, Simon Felton, D. Henry Felton, The Gay, A Gift From a Garden to a Flower, Vic Godard & Subway Sect, Good For You, The Guild League, HiM, I'm Gonna Watch the Bluebirds Fly Over My Shoulder, Jonathan Inc., Junkbunny, Kosmonaut, The Lucksmiths, Dale Maxfield, Melodie Group, John Moremen, Jennifer O'Connor, Palestine/Coulter/Mathoul, Photon Band, Pipas, Potion, Primitive Painter, Razorcuts, The Sinking Ships, Slick Fifty Seven, Summer at Shatter Creek, Jenny Toomey, Ultra Living, Ultramarine, The Violents, The Wakeups, Susumu Yokota)

Other things

Book Reviews (Kirk Alex, Daniel Clowes, Neil Gaiman, Jamming With Aleksander Zograf), Nelson George's Hip Hop America

What We Loved Most in 2002: Movies, Albums, etc.

Interviews

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Bill Morrison, Eduard Bersudsky, Bill Drummond, If Thousands, Sprawl, Sally Child on Alexander Trocchi, Louise Welsh, Tommy Sheridan, MOJO

Film

All the Real Girls, Bend It Like Beckham, Antwone Fisher, The Life of David Gale, Phone Booth, Ed Wood, Erasherhead, DVDs (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Mickey Mouse in Black and White, Style Wars)

Music

The Ramones, Music From UK, The White Stripes, DC to Daylight, Heth, Lookwell, Telstar Ponies/Rose McDowall, Pinback, The National Splits, Haley Bonar, Asa Chang & Junray, Little Brother, We Are Not Alone vols. 5, 6, & 7, Music Reviews (Aarktica, American Song-Poem Anthology, Andrew, Ape House, Arab Strap, Avoidance Theory, Bobby Birdman, Bluebottle Kiss, Boxing, The Boxing Lesson, Bronze, Bunny Nightlight, Candy Colored Clowns, Capitol Years, Daniel Carter + Reuben Radding, Johnny Cash, Loren Connors, Cubalive!, Evan Dando, The Decemberists, Dopo Yume, Flume, FM Knives, GZA/Genius, Simon Heselev & Kurt Vonnegut , The Impossible Shapes, Innocent Words: Small, My Table, Gordon Isnor, Jasmine Minks, Dan Jones, Kiddo, The Larch, Lifeguards, Light Sleeper, The Loveless & Goodnight Trail, Mateo & Matos, Momus, No Escape, Pale Horse and Rider, Pothole Skinny, Pulby, The Radio Dept, (The Real) Tuesday Weld, Virgil Shaw, Silent Kids, Lee Baby Sims, Sorry About Dresden, Rob Swift, Nobukazu Takemura, Tangiers, Themselves, Thalia Zedek

Other things

Book Reviews (Fargo Rock City by Chuck Klosterman), Screech

Interviews

Trash Can Sinatras, The Print Magazine Is Not Dead pt 1 (including Q&A with editors of The Big Takeover, Cabinet, Elemental, Wax Poetics and The Wire), Saloon, Future Pilot AKA's Sushil K. Dade, Haley Bonar, Lookwell, Dan Rhodes, Alexander Zograf

Film

Films of John Sayles, My Own Private Idaho, Punchline, Bruce Almighty, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Matrix: Reloaded, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Down With Love, Dancer in the Dark, DVD (American Mullet, Full Time Killer)

Music

Live Performance Reports (Ryan Adams, Ari-up, The Kitchen, I Love Lucy; Belle & Sebastian, Mull Historical Society and The Delgados; The Pastels, Barbara Morgenstern, Mapstation, Buck 65, Fourtet, Future Pilot AKA, Manitoba, Murcof, Leaf, Eyoe & Teenage Fanclub/BMX Bandits, Trash Can Sinatras), Pixies, The British are Coming!: A Look at the Latest Releases From the UK, Jewel Gone Wild, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Guided By Voices, The Pastels, TonyDoug's CD Reviews (6 Minute Mile, Dark Little Rooms, Morning Spy, and Terminus Victor), Grandaddy, Liz Phair, First Prize Killers, From Madonna to Math Rock In Four Easy Steps, Roman Evening, Hit List: Reviewing the Same Five Songs Every Hour, Flowchart, Poi Dog Pondering, 25 Reviews of Music (!!!, Alcove, And Academy, …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Arkitekchur, Aspera, Sherry Austin, Beginner's Guide to Bollywood, The Black Keys, Blurred Images, Bonepony, Bottom of the Hudson, Branches and Routes, California Oranges, Clare, Colin Clary, The Clientele, Cosmic Rough Riders, The Cruzeros, Diana Darby, Daughter, Dead Meadow, DJ Ordeal, Early Day Miners, Elliott the Letter Ostrich), 25 More Reviews of Music (Eluvium, Emery Reel, Fairburn Royals, Ed Fingerling, For Against, Adam Forkner, Doug Gillard, Adam Green, Hidden Cameras, High Explosion, James William Hindle, Hitchcock's Regret, Claire Holley, Hotwires, Eugene Kelly, The Like Young, Little Darla Has a Treat For You, v20, The Long Weekend, The Lucksmiths, Magic Car, Matinee 50, Mayday, Scott McDonald Group, Mogwai, Mudville), 28 More Reviews of Music (A Northern Chorus, PK Radiovista, The Potomac Accord, The Rain Band, Razorcuts, Jenny Reynolds, Saloon, Sekiden, Simpatico, Simply Saucer, The Slaughter Rule, Slipslide, The Snowdrops, Sonic Youth, Sportique, Kevin Stonerock, Styrofoam, Surface of Eceyon, Sweet Trip, Sweet William, The Swindles, T Minus Band, Toshack Highway/Sianspheric, Vibon 2, Josh Wink Steve Winwood, The Youngbloods , Young Antiques)

Other things

Book Reviews (Niall Griffiths, Stephen Jones, Mikael Niemi, Dan Rhodes, Marjane Satrapi, Ali Smith)

Interviews

Hal Hartley, M. Ward, Nigel Powell

Film

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, Cutter's Way, Rumble Fish, The Quick and the Dead, Bright Future, Young Adam, Mr. Show: The Third Season DVD, Russian Ark DVD, DVD Reviews(Bjork: Greatest Hits, By Brakhage, The Opening Paragraph)

Music

The Lucksmiths, The Sprites, Pas/Cal in Concert; Remembering Johnny Cash, Madonna, Ben Lee, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Frog Eyes, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Clem Snide, Sloan, C-Rayz Walz, Song Reviews (Thad Cockrell, Death Cab for Cutie, Mates of State), Music Reviews (Bobby Birdman, Mark Eitzel, Joe Ely, People Under the Stairs, We Came From Beyond Volume 2, El-P, Jeffrey Lewis with Jack Lewis and Anders Griffen, Mirah YomTov Zeitlyn/Ginger Brooks Takahashi & Friends, Mark Ronson, You're Still Young at Heart), Anamude, Defari, Fiel Garvie, The Frenchmen, The Heavenly States, Kronos Quartet With David Barron, Love, The Meeting Places, Placer, Scout, Stars, Arrial, Broadcast, Heathen Noise, Minmae, Rollerball

Interviews

Alex Church (Irving), Jorge Vacca (Topolin), Spotlight on Kenny Richey, Will Robinson Sheff (Okkervil River), Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Trunk Records, Clue to Kalo

Film

Buongiorno Notte, Anything Else, Lost in Translation, School of Rock, Hammer Horror Films, Quick Change, Seven, Stevie DVD, The Works Of Director Spike Jonze DVD, All the Real Girls DVD

Music

Hit List, Concert Reviews (Mogwai, R.E.M., Decibully), Meeting Famous People Isn't Easy, The British are Coming, The Darkness, David Byrne, Voodoo Popeye, Barbaro, Pale Sunday, Respira, Outkast, Guided By Voices, David Dondero, Holly Golightly, The Afternoons, Ballboy, Bluebottle Kiss, The Cash Brothers, The Forresters, The Long Weekend, The Long Winters, The Lucksmiths, Okkervil River, Soft Canyon, Aesop Rock, Belleville Rendezvous, Marshall Crenshaw, Danielson Famile, Giardini di Miro, Hamell On Trial, Damien Jurado, Looper, My Morning Jacket, The Ramblin' Ambassadors, Belle & Sebastian, Isobel Campbell, Edison Woods, Fortress Madonna, Jean Grae, Grandpa Boy, The Green Pajamas, Her Space Holiday, The Impossible Shapes, Metal Fingers, My First Days on Junk, The Pines, The Relict, Wig in a Box, Belle & Sebastian, Dick Smart 2.007, Les Georges Leningrad, Okkervil River, Sexy, The Original Soundtrack, Un uomo da rispettare, Young and Sexy, The Young Tradition

Other things

Gillian Wearing, All Music Guide to Hip-Hop, Banana Yoshimoto

Interviews

Yo La Tengo

Film

Alex De La Iglesia, Mystic River, Out of Time, Alien: The Director's Cut, Midnight Run, Days of Heaven, Friday Night DVD, The Directors Label DVD Series (Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, Michel Gondry)

Music

Live Reviews (The Pastels/Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Dexy's Midnight Runners), Hit List November 2003, Compulation, Cleveland/Kansas City, Soul Position, Rough Trade, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Read: Interpreting Bjork, Beulah, The Books, The Capitol Years, The Decemberists, Explosions in the Sky, The Gay, Lyrics Born, Teenage Fanclub, The Trouble Dolls, Yo La Tengo, Ballboy, Brighter, The Buddy System, Clem Snide, Death Cab for Cutie, Kid Koala, The Minders, Norfolk & Western, U.N.P.O.C., Robert Wyatt

Other things

Book Reviews (Alasdair Gray's The Ends of Our Tethers, Kool Mo Dee's There's a God on the Mic: The True 50 Greatest MCs, Craig Thompson's Blankets, Kid Koala's Nufonia Must Fall, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn by John Cavanagh, Notes from a Defeatist by Joe Sacco, Freshers by Kevin Sampson

Interviews

Tori Kudo (Maher Shalal Hash Baz), Christopher Doyle (cinematographer), Bill Swan (Beulah), Kevin Sampson (author)

Film

They Live, Comandante, Belle & Sebastian--Fans Only, Comedy of Innocence

Music

Live Reviews (The Pictish Trail, King Creosote, Pip Dylan, Super Shitbox, OnTheFly, Down The Tiny Steps, James Yorkston, The José, and U.N.P.O.C.; Peter Green Splinter Group; The Skatalites; Maximilian Hecker and Barbara Morgenstern), Recent Hip-Hop Releases (Diverse, 5 Family Click, Jay-Z, RZA), Kill Myself on Monday, Sixty Stories, Jim Dickinson Field Recordings, A Tribe Called Quest, British Sea Power, Air, The Windmills, Riow Arai, The Aranbee Pop Symphony Orchestra, The Atlantic Manor, Del Cielo, The Matinee Autumn Assortment!, Stephin Merritt, Reclinerland, Small Life Form, Sun Kil Moon, Upstate, The Amos House Collection Volume III, Ashen, Escape Pod, Little Darla Has a Treat For You v. 21, Stereolab, Collette Carter, Decibully, M. Doughty, Illion, Looper

Other things

Snow Globes, Book Reviews (Mortification, This Book Will Change Your Life)