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2004 Stories by Rachel Devitt

• Saint Etienne

  published December 29, 2004

  Saint Etienne is a very pretty concept -- and 15 years of a pretty concept makes for a lovely best-of album. Travel Edition is a... More >>

• Holly Golightly

  published December 22, 2004

  I have to admit that I was less than enthusiastic about the prospect of sitting through a new Holly Golightly album, another Valium-drip-slow trip... More >>

• Gwen Stefani

  published December 15, 2004

  Your friends are totally going to make fun of Gwen Stefani's first-ever solo album. Granted, they have quite a bit of ammunition at their... More >>

• The Makers

  published November 24, 2004

  For years, the Makers have been doing what everyone else is doing now -- pilfering religiously from Iggy, Pete, and myriad garage rock bands.... More >>

• Rufus Wainwright

  published November 24, 2004

  I was initially a little immune to the baroque fabulousness of Want One, the precursor to Want Two, Wainwright's fifth album -- that... More >>

• Kind of Blue

  published November 17, 2004

  On Oct. 29, I interviewed Johanna Fateman of Le Tigre in a big, new world of possibilities, a world that was anxious but hopeful for the lives of... More >>

• Lesbians on Ecstasy

  published November 17, 2004

  The Lesbians on Ecstasy concept is a sexy one: Take odds and ends from quintessential lesbian-with-a-capital-"L" music (you know, Melissa, the... More >>

• A Perfect Circle

  published November 17, 2004

  I thought reviewing A Perfect Circle's new album, eMOTIVe, would be freaking hilarious because, well, what isn't funny about... More >>

• Divide and Convolute

  published October 13, 2004

  "There's a section right after the beginning part where a Casio's playing quite fast and then a piano and a drum kit come in and they play this... More >>

• Tegan and Sara

  published October 6, 2004

  The whole girl-with-a-guitar genre is like your first "A Woman Needs a Man Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle" bumper sticker: Its overt earnestness is... More >>

• Sally Timms

  published October 6, 2004

  Every time I hear a snippet of composer Alban Berg's atonal opera Wozzeck I get this feeling that's a combination of searing pain in my... More >>

• Joss Stone

  published September 29, 2004

  Ever since Sam Phillips famously found his "billion dollar" dream of a white artist "who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel," the music... More >>

• Har Mar Superstar

  published September 22, 2004

  Har Mar Superstar is a paunchy, balding indie rocker from Minnesota who creates bawdy R&B and hip hop that critiques the stereotypes of those... More >>

• Fire Starters

  published September 1, 2004

  My friend and I, at 37 and 26, respectively, are easily among the oldest mall punks at the Warped Tour this year. In fact, our very appearance... More >>

• The Rogers Sisters

  published September 1, 2004

  Let me know if you've heard this one before: Three hipsters walk into a bar in Williamsburg, bond over a fondness for post-punk and Prince (the... More >>

• Hear This

  published September 1, 2004

  As a hip hop producer, Kanye West is nearly ubiquitous -- he's produced hits for Twista, Jay-Z, Ludacris, Talib Kweli, and Alicia Keys.... More >>

• Do the Killers

  published August 25, 2004

  You know how every time you go to a wedding, your cousin or your high school best friend's idiot boyfriend or somebody at some point feels the... More >>

• Call and Response

  published August 25, 2004

  S.F.'s Call and Response continues the California dreamin' the band started on its self-titled debut -- only this time the dream is more Grace... More >>

• Hear This

  published August 25, 2004

  In the music world, like in the rest of this country, ethnicity is all too often condensed into an overly simplistic black/white binary that... More >>

• Nedelle and Thom

  published August 11, 2004

  I cannot get enough of Summerland. It's a bit embarrassing, actually. I keep finding myself driving around, blasting at top volume what may... More >>

• The Hives

  published July 28, 2004

  Of all the "The" bands swearing devotion to the Sonics/Stones/Stooges holy trinity of garage rock, the Hives have always seemed to have the most... More >>

• Angie Stone

  published July 14, 2004

  Angie Stone has always been adept at making quiet, third-date soul that knows just the line to feed you to get the candles burning low and your... More >>

• Ozomatli

  published July 7, 2004

  It's hard to talk about Ozomatli without coming off like some chai-drinking, dashiki-wearing boho hipster. To wit: Street Signs' socially... More >>

• Brandy, Brandy, Brandy, I Can Let You Go

  published June 30, 2004

  It's tough being Brandy in a post-Beyoncé world of R&B. Ms. Bootylicious is the body and the voice; she's pop, she's hip hop, she's... More >>

• The Catheters

  published June 30, 2004

  What do you do when you're a bunch of wannabe-punk kids from the suburbs of Seattle who already have a grimy, modestly successful, Stooges-heavy... More >>