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2002 Stories by Greg Barr

• Beaver Nelson, with Adam Carroll and Scrappy Jud Newcomb

  published December 26, 2002

  Beaver Nelson's new CD, Legends of the Super Heroes, is his most diverse, intriguing batch of songs to date, reaffirming the notion that he's a... More >>

• Secret Agent 8

  published December 19, 2002

  There's nothing clandestine about Secret Agent 8 when it comes to its approach to ska. The first three tracks on the band's second album blast... More >>

• November Pain

  published December 12, 2002

  Backstage at General Motors Place in Vancouver, the tension was as thick as the morning fog that often cloaks the rainy West Coast city. An hour... More >>

• Rockin' Drama Mama

  published November 28, 2002

  Look around a New York City subway train on a Saturday evening and it might seem that you're stuck inside a shaky, clickety-clackety green room... More >>

• Stone Sour

  published November 14, 2002

  Was it the ignominy of a life behind masks, or the fact that their fans were known as "maggots" that drove Corey Taylor and James Root to give... More >>

• Mushroomhead

  published November 7, 2002

  We got masks! We got masks! Unfortunately for Mushroomhead, the California hardcore band's tawdry choice of apparel puts it squarely in the... More >>

• Sum 41

  published October 31, 2002

  Only a week after Jackass: The Movie opened in Houston, "Jackass: The Band" barrels into town with a one-night screening at the Engine... More >>

• The Gord Is My Shepherd

  published October 24, 2002

  The most enduring cliché spouted to critics by a band whose new release sounds just like 30 other albums released that day goes like this:... More >>

• The Mexican Roots Trio

  published October 24, 2002

  Joel Guzman had not performed with his father for nearly 15 years when Lupe Guzman was invited to go on at a National Endowment of the Arts event... More >>

• Chemical Kids

  published September 26, 2002

  There isn't much margin for error if you're zigzagging across the stage at Fitzgerald's while peering through a five-foot foam rubber vagina. Yet... More >>

• Spies Like Us

  published September 12, 2002

  In the back room of a Galveston coffee bar, Will Frith hauls a hefty tome out of his backpack and rests it on his lap. The lead vocalist of the... More >>

• Bo Diddley with Hamilton Loomis

  published September 12, 2002

  Folks who are hung up on that visual image of Bo Diddley cradling his quirky, rectangular Gretsch guitar, or his 1980s Nike ad campaign, don't... More >>

• Ruthie Foster

  published August 22, 2002

  If music that sounds as if it were naturally fermented from the bayous, cricks and back porches of rural America is what you seek, then look no... More >>

• Rush

  published August 15, 2002

  After nearly 30 years together, the members of Toronto power trio Rush have little left to achieve. The band has released a slew of albums (at one... More >>

• Hayes Carll

  published August 8, 2002

  Not since fellow Old Quarter alum Diane Craig's Fortunes Told has a member of the OQ fraternity released as impressive a record as... More >>

• Tommy Lee

  published August 8, 2002

  You have to hand it to that Tommy Lee. He knows exactly who pays the freight (namely, teenage boys with perpetual boners), and he has no problem... More >>

• Hot Tunes, Summer in the City

  published July 18, 2002

  It's time for another round of Houston Press Music Awards jinxes. Considering that last year's big winners were Japanic (who broke up six... More >>

• Our Lady Peace, with Ash and greenwheel

  published July 18, 2002

  Though it has nothing much to do with appealing to fans and everything to do with smart marketing, the summer of 2002 will go down in history as... More >>

• Todd Snider

  published July 18, 2002

  When a Billboard reporter asked him what was the most memorable part of recording his latest album, New Connection, Todd Snider... More >>

• Seven Come Eleven

  published July 11, 2002

  At some point between the last miserable day job and the first national tour, countless musicians have either chosen, or been forced, to take a... More >>

• Popsy

  published June 27, 2002

  The success of Limp Bizkit, SoCal rap-metallurgists P.O.D. and schlock-hopper Kid Rock has spawned a horde of fledgling bands that aspire to make... More >>

• Hamilton Loomis

  published June 6, 2002

  Bo Diddley once offered some sage advice to his then teenage blues guitar protégé, Hamilton Loomis. Diddley told Loomis, "Innovate,... More >>

• Diana Krall

  published May 23, 2002

  Until recently in her career, the 37-year-old Canadian-born New York resident was referred to as a brilliant pianist whose vocal talents were just... More >>

• Garbage

  published May 16, 2002

  Squeezed from the piss-and-vinegar concoction that is Shirley Manson and Butch Vig, Garbage has more bouts of trash-talking, fits of pique and... More >>

• Golden Gate Garage

  published May 2, 2002

  Shea Roberts doesn't mind it at all when passersby in his San Francisco neighborhood comment on his British Invasion styles. "Cool…Beatles!"... More >>