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U2: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

It’s a useless thought, but it’s one that might cross more that one critic’s mind: it doesn’t matter for shit...

Nov 24, 2004

Ed-in-Chief and pal Scott Reid and I have more than a couple differences in musical taste -- most obvious among... Nov 24, 2004

NBH

Although Greetings from Michigan was an homage to his home state, prolific singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens’ new album, Seven Swans, is...

Nov 20, 2004

So I was late to both of these concerts, missing On! Air! Library! at the 9:30 club in DC, and... Nov 20, 2004

Featuring a name that has to be a reference to the scheming cafeteria-worker from Joseph Heller’s Catch 22, Your Code...

Nov 17, 2004

Chicago's art-pop scene; the mere mention of it is enough to conjure Joan of Arc, like a particularly throbbing blemish... Nov 17, 2004

Brave artists who drop albums into the small, small world of instrumental hip-hop face a number of challenges. On... Nov 16, 2004

Lynne Ramsey’s film Morvern Callar, based on the novel by Alan Warner, features an intriguing premise: a guy has...

Nov 15, 2004

The music goblins, the gluttons with bits for brains, after having gorged themselves on every category of every color of...

Nov 15, 2004