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2000 Stories by Greg Barr

• Playbill

  published December 28, 2000

  Visitors to the tiny dimly lit Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe in Galveston can't help but notice a hodgepodge shrine to venerable Texas... More >>

• Godsmack

  published November 23, 2000

  With Awake, Godsmack takes a sharp turn off the hard-rock road that it barreled down on its self-titled debut disc. The new album gives... More >>

• Playbill

  published November 23, 2000

  With all its mala suerte seemingly behind it, Austin's Vallejo was finally able to release its major-label debut, Into the New,... More >>

• Death Rap

  published October 5, 2000

  Erik Schrody, whom you may know better as Everlast or as his occasional moniker Whitey Ford, has made a record that sounds so, well, black. It's... More >>

• The Riff Factory

  published September 7, 2000

  While some rock musicians would never release an album unless it was a genuine reflection of how much they had developed since their previous CD,... More >>

• Dude Raunch

  published August 17, 2000

  Any aspiring metalhead who doesn't know Jack is shit out of luck. That's because the cherub-faced teenager with the spiked hair named Jack... More >>

• Lady Belts the Blues

  published August 10, 2000

  The four words "drastic change" and "Marcia Ball" have never really fit well together in the same sentence. The Louisiana-bred piano player has... More >>

• Easy Does It

  published July 20, 2000

  What the world needs now is another folk singer / Like I need a hole in my head. -- "Teen Angst," Cracker Todd Snider can't tell you... More >>

• Rotation

  published July 20, 2000

  Young Dubliners Red Omtown/Higher Octave Irish bands that have tried to steer Celtic rock into the... More >>

• Bob Schneider

  published July 6, 2000

  It's nearly 3 a.m., and amid the din of workers sweeping up piles of broken bottles after another sold-out show at the Satellite Lounge, Scabs... More >>

• Artsy Activist

  published May 11, 2000

  For Bruce Cockburn, it has become routine for interviewers to ask why this New Testament-packing Canadian folk troubadour has spent years tromping... More >>

• Not Your Average Angst

  published May 11, 2000

  What sets Greg Graffin, the leader of punk survivors Bad Religion, apart from many of his contemporaries is his impeccable knack for knowing... More >>

• Makeup Something

  published March 30, 2000

  Coal Chamber's second album, Chamber Music, which was released in September 1999, sold like crazy for a few weeks, basically coasting on... More >>

• You Go Gaelic, Girl

  published March 23, 2000

  While Peter Garrett, the hyperkinetic, cranelike front man for Midnight Oil, used his law degree to delve into sociopolitical issues and tilt his... More >>

• Party On

  published January 27, 2000

  It's July 1998, and A.J. Vallejo is strolling through the parking lot of Austin's Tinseltown movie megaplex on a mission to see Armageddon,... More >>