Email Author Mike Rowell

2003 Stories by Mike Rowell

• Hear This

  published October 15, 2003

  Umlaut alert! A mere three-plus decades after its inception, legendary Swedish group Träd Gräs och Stenar (aka TGS) is finally... More >>

• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

  published June 11, 2003

  Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 12th album, Nocturama, is, like its predecessors, a darkly beautiful, occasionally cantankerous... More >>

• Turbonegro

  published April 2, 2003

  Sounding much like a next-generation Ramones, Norway's Turbonegro melds ridiculous, smutty lyrics to hard-charging rock without coming off as a... More >>

• Hear This

  published March 19, 2003

  "Fire in the disco! Fire in the Taco Bell!" yelps Electric Six vocalist Dick Valentine on the band's current single, a booty-shaking ode to... More >>

• Mickey Baker

  published February 26, 2003

  Mickey Baker was a major contributor to the transmutation of R&B to rock, along with his better-known contemporaries Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry.... More >>