Email Author Keith Harris

2000 Stories by Keith Harris

• Happy New Jeers

  published December 27, 2000

  At least this year has roused up a worthy controversy in the local club scene. More >>

• Weird Like Us

  published December 13, 2000

  Is narsty pop culture rotting our children's morals and are we executing bad guys quickly enough? More >>

• Merle Haggard: If I Could Only Fly

  published December 13, 2000

  Merle Haggard If I Could Only Fly Anti-/Epitaph   LIKE SO MANY living legends, Merle... More >>

• Love Songs for Yobs

  published December 6, 2000

  The Beautiful South serenades the English in all their shabby splendor; Black Box Recorder finds the sad side of sadism. More >>

• Heads Will Roll

  published December 6, 2000

  Everyone already knows the big news this week, but it stands repeating regardless. More >>

• RPM vs. Sombertown

  published November 29, 2000

  Sombertown are what so many Minneapolis combos promise to be but rarely make good on--a pop band with actual pop songs. More >>

• Insider's Music for the Sedentary Man?

  published November 22, 2000

  Coming to terms with jazz is a task I'd figured I could put off for a few years yet. More >>

• Young White Guys: Still Dumb, Still Rock

  published November 15, 2000

  It's true--Fred Durst is indeed a bad role model for young men. More >>

• Creation Myth

  published November 15, 2000

  Thirty-five years ago, a Chicago arts collective charted new territory in black music. Now, in a three-day retrospective, Minneapolis free-jazz... More >>

• Sounds Like Preteen Spirit

  published November 8, 2000

  You forget some things about kids when you don't spend much time around them, or at least I do. More >>

• No Future?

  published November 1, 2000

  I went to CMJ Music Marathon 2000 and all I got was this lousy tote bag. More >>

• Moussoulou Power

  published November 1, 2000

  A generation of Malian women discover a portal between the music of the past and a feminism of the future. More >>

• RPM Band Challenge: RPM vs. Rosy Overdrive

  published October 25, 2000

  Rosy Overdrive is more overdriven than Bachman Turner. More >>

• various artists: Kwaito: South African Hip Hop

  published October 25, 2000

  various artists Kwaito: South African Hip Hop Stern's Africa/Earthworks   "ARE YOU... More >>

• Kid Post-Rock

  published October 18, 2000

  Does Radiohead's disjointed new album make them the World's Greatest Rock Band? (No.) More >>

• Cleanup Time

  published October 18, 2000

  This local CD roundup saves you time. More >>

• Bettie Serveert: Private Suit

  published October 18, 2000

  Bettie Serveert Private Suit Palomine   THEM EUROPEAN MUSICIANS sure are more loyal than... More >>

• Signal to Noise: RPM Strikes Back

  published October 4, 2000

  When I get called out irresponsibly and/or incorrectly, then do I gnash my teeth and taste hot blood. More >>

• Rock around the doc

  published October 4, 2000

  U Film's "Sound Unseen" festival projects our mythologies of music onto the screen. More >>

• RPM vs. Grumpy Alice

  published September 27, 2000

  Alice is a perfectly fine appellation for a girl, or maybe a female pet, or even a car, if you're one of those weird people who insist on... More >>

• He's With the Band

  published September 20, 2000

  Critic-turned-filmmaker Cameron Crowe defers to the talent in Almost Famous More >>

• Revolutions Per Minute

  published September 20, 2000

  The Waves Come up from Davy Jones's Locker. Also: Dissecting the Airwaves. More >>

• Closing Time

  published September 13, 2000

  Minnesota's only full-time all-ages rock venue, the Foxfire Coffee Lounge, shuts its doors. More >>

• Tomorrow the Green Grass

  published September 13, 2000

  As soon as that acoustic guitar appeared onstage at the Green Party's Nader-LaDuke rally this summer, I got queasy. More >>

• ESG: ESG: A South Bronx Story

  published September 13, 2000

  ESG ESG: A South Bronx Story Universal Sound import   ESG WERE FOUR sisters from the Bronx... More >>