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1998 Stories by Seth Hurwitz

• Commercial Potential

  published December 10, 1998

  Someone left the door open, and Butch, bassist Steve Wesson's pug, whose eyes look the size of half-dollars, is missing. He's cruising around... More >>

• Once More With Feeling

  published November 26, 1998

  Lyle Lovett -- He's the favorite country musician for people who don't like country music and a Nashville iconoclast who consistently makes... More >>

• Rotation

  published November 19, 1998

  Medeski, Martin and Wood Combustication Blue Note The keyboard, bass and drums trio of Medeski, Martin and Wood have been a... More >>

• Rotation

  published November 12, 1998

  Alanis Morissette Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie Maverick/Reprise When all was said and done, Alanis Morissette's Jagged... More >>

• Rotation

  published November 5, 1998

  DJ Spooky Riddim Warfare Outpost/Geffen Remember the episode of Friends where Ross thinks he can make it as a musician? ... More >>

• Novel Experience

  published October 22, 1998

  Most of us crowded between sea and shining sea are from someplace else. If we didn't arrive here under our own steam, then it was our parents, or... More >>

• In the Black

  published October 15, 1998

  Everyone wins at an all-day, live-music marathon like Fall Jam IV. The radio station (in this case, KLOL/101.1 FM) gets plenty of publicity, and... More >>

• Medical Marvel

  published August 27, 1998

  Maybe it should come as no surprise, in light of the dual careers of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, that the often illegible... More >>

• Cozy Church of Cinema

  published August 6, 1998

  It's not -- entirely -- the redundant, simplistic and insanely loud films themselves that make going to the movies such a mind-numbing experience;... More >>

• Maggie's New Muse

  published July 9, 1998

  It's been a long seven weeks for SixMileBridge, touring the Midwest and the East Coast to promote their debut CD, Across the Water. They've... More >>

• 1998 Houston Press Music Awards Winners

  published June 25, 1998

  Submitted for your approval: 100-degree heat, ten venues, 55 bands and a handful of nightclub managers who responded to the record temperatures... More >>

• 1998 Houston Press Music Awards Nominees

  published June 11, 1998

  Aftershock Nomination: Best Metal/Hard Rock; Best Rap/Hip-Hop Sound: Metal, rap Time logged: Two years Etc.:... More >>

• Rotation

  published February 19, 1998

  Goldie Saturnz Return London/FFRR Imagine you're at a rave. All the components are there: the guys wearing fluorescent colors... More >>

• Into the Folds

  published February 12, 1998

  In the Barry Levinson film Diner, one of the characters insists that his fiancee pass a quiz on pro football before he'll marry her. If your thing... More >>

• Exceptional Bass

  published January 29, 1998

  Quick, count the number of bassists you know who have led memorable jazz bands; if you have to use more than one hand to keep track, you're ahead... More >>

• Uncommon Cause

  published January 22, 1998

  At times, Consolidated seem less like a band than a cause-waving freak show. The quasi-militant San Francisco Bay-area trio is, quite literally,... More >>

• Tupelo's Curse

  published January 15, 1998

  Anyone who follows popular music knows that success is often a matter of timing. Yesterday's cool, after all, is today's Wang Chung. It... More >>