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2002 Stories by Craig D. Lindsey

• Black Gold

  published December 26, 2002

  This was a magnificent year for R&B and hip-hop -- that is, if you shunned commercial radio, corporate music magazines, MTV, BET and all other... More >>

• Flush 'Em All

  published December 26, 2002

  "I don't really know how to put this, but I guess it's like Houston really kinda needed an enema," says local record-spinner Albert Rowan, better... More >>

• No Deposit, No Return

  published December 19, 2002

  Ask any detective -- there are at least three sides to every story. There's your version, the other guy's version and the truth. Unless you saw... More >>

• Christina Aguilera

  published December 19, 2002

  It's easy to be too self-righteous. Oprah teeters on the brink of it every day. Rosie O'Donnell was so full of it, she's currently committing... More >>

• Combat Rock

  published December 12, 2002

  Brian McManus is stalking the stage with thong panties on top of his damn head. The Fatal Flying Guilloteens guitarist is immersing himself in... More >>

• K-Otix / The ARE

  published December 12, 2002

  The members of K-Otix claim that these two platters -- the products of a hiatus between MCs Mic and Damien and their producer the ARE -- are... More >>

• Big Tymers and Lil' Wayne

  published December 12, 2002

  Like so many popular rap empires before it, it seems like the crew of Cash Money Records is on the wane. Still, it could be worse: Juvenile and... More >>

• When Nelly Met Kelly

  published December 5, 2002

  Two minutes. One hundred and twenty seconds. That's all you're gonna get if you're a reporter and you want to talk to Kelly Rowland, one-third of... More >>

• Vivian Green

  published November 28, 2002

  Vivian Green has a soft voice, but it often builds into boisterous crescendos. It wouldn't be surprising to see grown men weeping at the sound of... More >>

• Sweet...and a Little Sour

  published November 21, 2002

  Kim Hill -- the soul singer, not the Christian folk/rock guitarist from Mississippi -- is not a bitter woman. The following profile may... More >>

• Gin and Vamoose

  published November 21, 2002

  This is the story of two special, high-profile parties that happened on the exact same night. It was last Tuesday, a brisk evening. On one side of... More >>

• MC Paul Barman

  published November 21, 2002

  On one hand, New Jersey's MC Paul Barman has got to have the blandest name in hip-hop, bereft as it is of flash and imagination. Then again, it... More >>

• Motor City Mellow Men

  published November 14, 2002

  Welcome to Detroit. Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. Stevie Wonder. The MC5. The Stooges. Ted Nugent. Eminem. Kid Rock. The White Stripes.... More >>

• Houston Music Festival

  published November 7, 2002

  Two of the many things that bring people from all over the world to New Orleans year after year are Mardi Gras and the Essence Music... More >>

• Cex

  published November 7, 2002

  "I'm like the white Eminem," Baltimore rapper Cex has snarkily said about himself. In a year when there seems to be more talented,... More >>

• The Eclectic Horseman

  published October 31, 2002

  George Durham has been called "the Bill Gates of male dancers," but most folks just call him Horseman. And, of course, we could make wisecracks... More >>

• Scarface

  published October 31, 2002

  To say that Scarface's The Fix is his most commercial album to date is sacrilegious. It's almost like saying the man has completely sold... More >>

• I Am Woman, Hear Me Groove

  published October 24, 2002

  On the third Tuesday night of every month, a party goes down in Montrose. Well, to be honest, a party goes down in Montrose every time somebody... More >>

• George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic

  published October 24, 2002

  There are those who believe there's nothing left to say about funkmaster-general George Clinton and his rhythmic traveling freak show. Balderdash!... More >>

• Aretha Franklin

  published October 24, 2002

  Rolling Stone just declared Aretha Franklin's I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You the most essential rock album by a female... More >>

• Rap Avengers

  published October 17, 2002

  You wanna make Dälek laugh? You know, say something that just makes the man double over? Then tell him that a lot of people out there don't... More >>

• Fiddle Femme Fatale

  published October 17, 2002

  To hear Catherine Burnside talk about her ambitions, her dreams of stomping with the big dawgs, as they used to say on Martin, is almost... More >>

• People Under the Stairs

  published October 17, 2002

  Don't fall for the myth that rap is made by scowling artists for scowling people who love to sit back, listen to a CD and, well, scowl. Oh yes,... More >>

• Isn't He Lovely

  published October 10, 2002

  There are a couple of things stopping American audiences from realizing that World Outside My Window, the debut album from soul singer... More >>

• Acid Trips

  published October 10, 2002

  With all the damn drama this column reports week after week -- the gossip, the rumors, the closings, the construction, the indictments, the... More >>