Music

Dan Larkin knows Liam & Me are going to make it. "We all are," he says over the phone from Gainesville, Fla.
October 2, 2003 at 12:00 am

Aaron Lewis may be a moping and MTV-friendly Fred Durst suck-up, but his band isn't half bad live. On Saturday, Staind and Sevendust kicked off the first day of their tour with a sonic flurry of rock proportions. As Sevendust's Thundercats-esque red and black flag descended, testosterone coursed madly through the audience's veins.
October 2, 2003 at 12:00 am

James Reimer does not exactly stick out like a sore thumb alongside his 23 other band mates in The Polyphonic Spree.
September 25, 2003 at 12:00 am

The guitars disappeared, but the clouds of depression hanging over A Perfect Circle's music have not.
September 25, 2003 at 12:00 am

Regular Guys is an intelligent, interesting and entertaining German film. Although intensely boring, it's a fantastic movie if you watch it in well spread-out 15 minute chunks.
September 25, 2003 at 12:00 am

Off the crystal meth and back in the studio, Rufus Wainwright puts forth his most sober and self-reflective album to date.
September 25, 2003 at 12:00 am

With the release of You Forgot It In People, Broken Social Scene was catapulted from an unknown Canadian band to one of the most talked about groups in indie rock.
September 25, 2003 at 12:00 am

I'm not a metalhead, and as I pushed my way through the bearded and pierced attendees of last Thursday's Andrew W.K.
September 18, 2003 at 12:00 am

Remember that song "Ugly" that had you "throwin' 'bows" at the party and wishing you were from Hicktown, Georgia?
September 18, 2003 at 12:00 am

Nicholas Payton gets more ass than Wilt Chamberlain -- on one of his better days. And it's not as though this classically trained trumpet player is keeping it a secret.
September 18, 2003 at 12:00 am

Ah, the memories... I remember my first step into punk when I heard MXPX covering "Summer of '69." I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Since then, I have ditched Christian pop-punk, and so has MXPX on their new LP, Before Everything and After. That may not be a good thing in their case.
September 18, 2003 at 12:00 am

You could make a drinking game out of all the different Scottish inventions. Golf. Adhesive postage stamps.
September 11, 2003 at 12:00 am

Attention, indie head-bobbers! Dressy Bessy's self-titled album, their third release, is one of the catchiest albums of the year.
September 11, 2003 at 12:00 am

Dave Matthews, Some Devil, September 23 (RCA) Choosing to leave the band out of his name and album, Dave Matthews embarks on the tricky path of creating a solo album.
September 11, 2003 at 12:00 am

For the music snob, the first concert occupies a sacred space. Whether awful or amazing, we remember that first show, be it grooving to New Kids on the Block or sitting with your parents, suffering through a James Taylor set.
July 31, 2003 at 12:00 am

Every advertisement was billing it as the Dismemberment Plan's last show ever but when lead singer Travis Morrison walked on stage after Engine Down's serviceable opening set, he set the record straight on the "big fat lie." Turns out that the Plan had one more show, in their hometown of Washington, D.C.
July 31, 2003 at 12:00 am

I knew little to nothing about The Used before writing this review. I knew lead singer Bert McCracken dated Kelly Osborne and throws up on stage, or something like that.
July 24, 2003 at 12:00 am

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Fuck Nirvana. Credit where credit is due, the real impetus for the alt-rock revolution of the early 1990's wasn't Seattle and Nirvana.
July 24, 2003 at 12:00 am

Oh man, this one's bad. To you, Linkin Park may be just another top 40 Nu-Metal act, fodder for Y-100.
July 17, 2003 at 12:00 am

Sure, they lay their dark vocals over sugary pop music, but Guster's true appeal lies in their percussionist, Brian "Thundergod" Rosenworcel.
July 17, 2003 at 12:00 am