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1996 Stories by Hobart Rowland

• Sad Vacation

  published January 18, 1996

  The last few weeks have been anything but a vacation for Big Holiday's Lisa Novak. So as it turned out, an interview request was the best news... More >>

• Static

  published January 18, 1996

  Blues of a lifetime... Glen Alyn made a hefty sacrifice setting aside a chunk of his life for one man. But looking back, he figures it was well... More >>

• Cute Threat

  published January 18, 1996

  You might wonder whether we really need another dainty bleeding heart to join the already polluted pool of feeling females with pens and acoustic... More >>

• Rotation

  published January 18, 1996

  UB40 The Best of UB40, Volumes 1 and 2 Virgin As Britain's largely white ambassadors of dub, UB40 have always been crippled, to... More >>

• Hot Torch

  published January 11, 1996

  These days, you're lucky if a decent torch singer's voice gets you a dime for a cup of coffee. So you can bet it's more than just her bruisingly... More >>

• Static

  published January 11, 1996

  A shoe that fits... Sift through the ashes of the deceased post-punk redneck outfits Tab Jones, Fleshmop and Pork Belly Picnic, and you'll turn up... More >>

• Clever Criminals

  published January 11, 1996

  Los Angeles, full to the hilt with self-centered wannabes and bitter never-weres, is hardly the friendliest environment for a musician seeking... More >>

• Rotation

  published January 11, 1996

  Candlebox Lucy Maverick/Warner Candlebox's Lucy shows what can happen when a million-selling band thinks it can do no wrong --... More >>

• His Generation

  published January 4, 1996

  Christian Arnheiter has every excuse to sit and sulk. For two decades, his band the Hates has been thrashing away in blissful obscurity, all the... More >>

• Sound Check

  published January 4, 1996

  In a decade that's quickly becoming the era of the signing frenzy, a year hasn't gone by without its lion's share of overlooked releases -- and... More >>

• Static

  published January 4, 1996

  Reflections '95... Now that I'm a five-month veteran of the Houston scene, I feel that maybe I have the minimum experience required to mouth off a... More >>