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2005 Archive

Issue 30 -- January 2005

Interviews

The Carlsonics, The Switch

Film

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, In Good Company, Beautiful Girls, Tom Tykwer's Winter Sleepers and Heaven, 2004 Year-End Feature (Favorite Films of 2004, This Is Not a Year-End List, Best DVDs of 2004, etc.)

Music

Tell-All Records vol. 1, The Cars Are the Stars, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, Chuck Bettis, Luka Bloom, Kawaii, Kid Dakota, Landing Gear, The Pine Club, Statuesque, Accelera Deck, Aqueduct, Destroyer, Devotchka, Shuyler Jansen, Leigh Marble, Laurie Mathieson, The Matinee Winter Warmer, Dale Maxfield and the Silver Hammers, Steve Mayone, Outrageous Cherry, Pinkie, Swank, The Vestals, Gina Villalobos, Lou Barlow, Biirdie, Liam Singer, Petra Haden, Bing Ji Ling, The Chris Stamey Experience, Pop Go the Women (Vanessa Carlton, Charlotte Martin, Avril Lavigne, Katy Rose, Ashlee Simpson), 2004 Year-End Feature (Favorite Music of 2004)

Other things

Book Review (Mario Livio's The Golden Ratio)

Issue 31 -- February 2005

Interviews

The Carlsonics, The Switch

Film

Hide and Seek, Escape From New York, The Sea Inside, Maria Full of Grace

Music

Aarktica, Miles Davis, Jarboe, M.I.A. & Diplo, High School Speeding, North Elementary, Arrial, Kutmasta Kurt, Tobin Sprout, Cass McCombs, Dutch Elms, the Original Mark Edwards, Tiger Mountain, Bright Eyes, Winter Vacation, 3Men + Black (live), Simon Joyner, The Language of Flowers, Eric Matthews, The Close-Ups, Fabulous Nobody, Jeff Leopard, Melted Men, The Sparticus Stargazer, The Field Mice, The Black Swans, Lizz Fields, Folk?, Pipas

Other things

Forget About Love: A Novella in Twenty-Four Parts (Parts 1-4), Book Review (Paul Ash's What I Think About When I Go to the Job), 2005 NYC Fashion Week (Baby Phat, Luca Orlandi, Betsey Johnson), Hunter S. Thompson, Comics (Zoo Force, The Fairer Sex, Man Is Vox)

Issue 32 -- March 2005

Interviews

Giovanni Avena (editor, Adista), His Girl Friday, James Grant

Film

Head-On, Little Big Man

Music

The Stairs, AqPop, Pretendo, Animal, The Capstan Shafts, Ryan Doyle, Maximillian Hecker, Nagisa Ni Te, CoMo Music Anthology Vol. 1, Citified, The Capitol Years, The Channel, Math and Physics Club, Psychon, Momus, Amp, Vic Chesnutt, The Buckners, They Walk in Line, Adam Bianchi, Murdocks, Tompaulin, Tree Wave, Angil, The Casting Couch, Owen, Radar Bros., Slow Six, Tiny Idols

Other things

Book Reviews (David B.'s Epileptic, Jill Nelson's Sexual Healing, Philippe Vasset's ScriptGenerator©®™, Bracket: A New Generation in Fiction, ed. Ra Page), Comics (Green Lantern-Green Arrow Vol 1), Andres Serrano's America

Issue 33 -- April 2005

Film

Guess Who

Music

Eluvium, Mahjongg, Monica queen, Nemo, The Pubcrawlers, Akron/Family, Built Like Alaska, Cheese, Colonel Rhodes, Ffa Coffi Pawb, A Gun Called Tension, Jet By Day, The Oranges Band, The Rosebuds, Slomo Rabbit Kick, Strikes Again!, The Wowz, Beck, Okkervil River, The Mars Volta, Mark Mulcahy, Bright Eyes, Bearsuit, Lovejoy, Mice Parade, Of Montreal, Zion I

Other things

Book Reviews (Judy Budnitz's Nice Big American Baby, Jose Canseco's Juiced

Issue 34 -- May 2005

Film

Fever Pitch, Sin City, Sideways DVD, A Lot Like Love

Music

Kid Koala, Euz Autres, Half Acre Day, The Nein, Channing Cope, Robert Deeble, Metropolitan, Signal Hill Transmission, The Lucksmiths, Manual, Live Reviews (Television Personalities, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Juana Molina, Alasdair Roberts, Pastels DJs, Miso DJs, Lucky Luke, Dosimat, Open Field Church, Andres Lokko; International Airport, St. Deluxe, Pete Dowling, Stephen Pastel DJ), Cardinal, Linda Draper, Goldspot, Hobotalk, No Wait Wait, The Pathways, Robert Pollard, Verve Remixed 3, Clouds Forming Crowns, Ammoncontact, Auburn Lull, The Charade, Duplex!, The L.J.'s, Lorna, A Northern Chorus, Pacific Ocean Fire, Soltero, Dwight Trible & The Life Force Trio, ddd, Graves, Darren Hanlon, Melodium, Merzbow, One Umbrella, Remora

Other things

Book Reviews (Book Review: Julie Orringer's How to Breathe Underwater, Etgar Keret's The Nimrod Flip-Out, Samuel Shimon's An Iraqi in Paris, Buzz Bissinger's 3 Nights in August, Jimmy Ramsay's The Streets: tower blocks & top tens, Paul Ableman's I Hear Voices, Marjane Satrapi's Embroideries, Tori Amos and Ann Powers' Piece By Piece, Almudena Solana's The Curriculum Vitae of Aurora Ortiz), Champion City Comics (Dub Trub 2: The Peacemakers)

Issue 35 -- June 2005

Interviews

Monica Queen and Johnny Smillie

Film

Fletch, Made in Sheffield DVD, Sky Captain

Music

Roddy Frame and Hobotalk live, The Capstan Shafts,Crane Orchard, Lorenzo Goetz, The Herbaliser, P:ano, Jason Anderson, Word Jazz, Mahogany, The Foolish, Backstreet Boys

Other things

Book Reviews (Jackie Kay, Chris Colin, Etgar Keret), Forget About Love part five, Comics (The Iron Ghost, Green Lantern, Leap Years), Kerouac's Orpheus Emerged

Issue 36 -- July 2005

Interviews

The Wild Strawberry, Margaret Obank, Editor of "Banipal"

Film

Hamburger America dvd, Moog dvd, George A. Romero's Land of the Dead, Drive Well Sleep Carefully: On Tour With Death Cab for Cutie dvd

Music

Drew Danburry, The Orange Peels, Piano Magic, The Trembling, Tullycraft, The Young Tradition, The Consultants, Boyracer, Don Dipaolo, Heavy Trash, Jennifer O'Connor, The Like Young, Pale Sunday, Bunnygrunt, Halfway, Keepintime, David McCormack and the Polaroids, One Self, Beccy Owen, Pest, The Spongetones, Dwight Trible and the Life Force Trio, Treva Whateva

Other things

Book Reviews (John L. Allen's The Rise of Benedict XVI, Sara Banerji's The Waiting Time, Nick Brooks' My Name is Denise Forrester, Emma Forrest's Cherries in the Snow

Issue 37 -- August 2005

Film

Heat: Special Edition dvd, Pablo Berger's Torremolinos 73, Punk: Attitude

Music

The Floating City, Grenadier, Ian Britt, Cheese on Bread, Colin Clary, The High Dials, The Kallikak Family, Kobol, The Quarter After, Rollerball, Skyline Rodeo, Snow & Voices, The Supahip, Wild Strawberry, Clem Snide, Entre Rios, The HaveNots, Her Name in Lights, Magnolia Electric Co., Math and Physics Club, Okkervil River, The Primary 5, Sam Shinazzi, The Temperance Union, Volebeats, Danny George Wilson

Other things

Book Reviews (Niall Griffiths' Wreckage, Linda Ferri's Enchantments, Leila Aboulela's Minaret and The Translator, Jeff Smith's Bone One Volume Edition, Daniel Clowes' Ice Haven, Paul Whitelaw's Belle and Sebastian: Just a Modern Rock Story, Jake Willis Simons' The Exiled Times of a Tibetan Jew, Ben Myers' Green Day: American Idiots & The New Punk Explosion), Comics (Rushmore)

Issue 38 -- September 2005

Interviews

Delegate

Film

Dune

Music

California Oranges, Herbie Hancock, Bob Mould, Roky Erickson, Amestory, Death Cab for Cutie, Field Notes, Freiband, The Happy Couple, Annie Hayden, The Hotel Alexis, Isobella, Moonbabies, The Spinto Band, This Charming Man, The Zephyrs, The Sames, The Seldon Plan, The White Stripes, Brian Wilson, Nada Surf, Devendra Banhart, Liz Durrett, Tiger Saw, The Clientele, The Debutantes, The Doxies, Jose Gonzalez, Mile: A Hush Compilation, The Rosebuds, The Snow Fairies

Other things

Book Reviews (Kenneth Kahn's The Carny Kid: Survival of a Young Thief, Tom Bissell's God Lives in St. Petersburg and Other Stories)

Issue 39 -- October 2005

Interviews

Eugene Kelly

Film

Serenity, Roberto Benigni's The Tiger and the Snow

Music

Kanye West, Paul McCartney, Bochum Welt, Dogme95, Drexon Field, Friends of Dean Martinez, Marah, Sigur Ros, The Spectacular Fantastic, Spend an Evening With Saddle Creek DVD, Bonobo, DJ Kentaro, For Against, High Foundation '05, La Maison De La Culture, Lowlights, Pest, Pleasant, The Smittens, Guided by Voices, The Caribbean, Jamie Barnes, Blockhead, Coldcut, Elliott the Letter Ostrich, Cameron Ember, Fax, Milo Jones, Larsen, Lotek Hi-Fi, The Montgolfier Brothers, The Montgolfier Brothers, New Estate, NMS, Novillero, One Self, Roots Manuva, Secret Annexe, Skalpel, Skeletons & the Girl-Faced Boys,The Young Untold, The Go! Team, Ray Charles, Living Things, The Jessica Fletchers, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Capstan Shafts, The Herbaliser, the Long Winters, Scrabbel, LD & the New Criticism, Paul Duncan, The Stairs, Akron/Family & Angels of Light, Foo Fighters/Weezer/Hot Hot Heat Live, Denuzio, Jason Dove, The City on Film, The Eames Era, Robert Pollard

Other things

50th Anniversary of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Book Reviews (Nicholas Zinner, Kathryn Harrison, Jimmy McDonough, Ali Smith), Comics (Carter Allen)

Issue 40 -- November 2005

Music

If Thousands, Benji Cossa, Dreddy Kruger Presents Think Differently Music: Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture, Toothfairy, Il Programma di Religione, Super Numeri, Grateful Dead, Digable Planets, Robert Deeble, Maquiladora, Tangiers, The Twin Atlas, Black Keys Live DVD, No Parachute Vol 1 DVD, David Axelrod, The Pathways, Cake on Cake

Other things

Champion City Comics (Joe Kubert's Sgt Rock - Between Hell and a Hard Place), Book Reviews (James Meek's The People's Act of Love, Nancy Clark's A Way From Home)

Issue 41 -- December 2005

Interviews

John Ira Thomas of Candle Light Press, Timorous Beasties, Boo Hewerdine, Twisted Generation

Music

Live reviews (Boo Hewerdine, Wild Strawberry, Nick Reilly; The Creeping Bent Organisation presents Remake/Remodel; Tangiers; Roots Manuva; De la Soul), The Roots, David Dondero, The Black Watch, Cesar Comanche, Heth and Jed, Silver Sunshine, Cars Can Be Blue, The Catbox Quartet, Catfish Haven, Imaginational Anthem, Jazzanova, Kind of Like Spitting, Money Can't Buy Music, Part2, Plains, Popism, Sun Kil Moon, Voxtrot, Inner City Sound, Keith John Adams, Beaumont, Broken Spindles, Eurythmics, Githead, The Lucy Show, Hilken Mancini and Chris Colbourn, Margo, Merry Mixmas: Christmas Classics Remixed, The Mizell Brothers, Modern Giant, P:ano, Agape, Avoidance Theory, Canibus, Mark de Clive-Lowe, The Divorce, Dungen, The Great Distance, Ham1, Lambchop/Hands Off Cuba, Carter Little, The Mathletes, Modern Skirts, Paleo, Player Hater, Meri von KleinSmid, Ponies in the Surf, The Casting Couch, The Capstan Shafts, Comomusic Anthology 1990-2005 Volume 2, Kind of Like Spitting, Kobi, Looper, Ninja High School, The Snowdrops, Tender Trap

Other things

Book Reviews (Jane Kenyon, Alexander Mackendrick, Dan Fante, Kate O'Brien, James Greer, Tim Burton, Alexander McCall Smith, Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh, Alison Miller, Audrey Niffenegger)


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