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2000 Stories by Keith Harris

• Man! I Feel Like a Woman!

  published September 6, 2000

  The Kinleys and Shelby Lynne offer womanly alternatives to Nashville's bombast of latter-day chastity. More >>

• Tempest in a Melting Pot

  published September 6, 2000

  For black Americans, Africa is as much a site of longing as Ireland is to the pink-faced. More >>

• Rock Against Evolution

  published August 30, 2000

  Rock Against Evolution: The Glenrustles and the American Monsters More >>

• 3 Feet Underground

  published August 23, 2000

  De La Soul rise from the dead yet again to rally all hip hop's oddballs and misfits. More >>

• Revolutions Per Minute

  published August 23, 2000

  Funk Inferno; Also: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Rock Critic: Available For Events and Parties More >>

• When We Were Kings

  published August 16, 2000

  Spike Lee's concert doc The Original Kings of Comedy finds four standups riffing on a century of black humor. More >>

• Verses Versus Verses

  published August 16, 2000

  Mic Club Joins the Battle. More >>

• Funk Is Instrumental

  published August 2, 2000

  The teenage Heiruspecs put live horns and guitars back into hip hop. More >>

• Road to Nowhere

  published July 26, 2000

  Grandaddy and Modest Mouse ride suburban alienation from the interstates to outer space. More >>

• Sweet and Lowdown

  published July 12, 2000

  In two new albums, sax giant James Carter takes on an opponent his own size: The electric guitar. More >>

• Brother Ali: Rites of Passage

  published July 12, 2000

  Brother Ali Rites of Passage Rhyme Sayers [Editor's note: A correction ran concerning this story;... More >>

• Gary Stewart: Rumba on the River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two Congos

  published July 12, 2000

  Gary Stewart Rumba on the River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two Congos Verso THE TWO... More >>

• The Buddy System

  published July 5, 2000

  Working an hour behind the scenes for every minute on the mic, Lil Buddy strives to make it big. More >>

• Coup de Villa

  published June 28, 2000

  Exuberant shows, offensive lyrics, multiple aliases. Meet Raw Villa, your new rulers. More >>

• Cub Koda & the Points: Noise Monkeys

  published June 21, 2000

  Cub Koda & the Points Noise Monkeys J-Bird   THREE CHORDS, TWO guitars, one tune--no... More >>

• Del Phonics

  published June 14, 2000

  After keeping quiet for most of the Nineties, Del the Funky Homosapien speaks both sides of his mind. More >>

• Death Becomes Them

  published June 14, 2000

  Fatal vision: Brett and Rennie Sparks More >>

• Talk Dirty to Me in Esperanto

  published June 7, 2000

  Sonic Youth and Stereolab redefine the intimate grammar of rock, again. More >>

• Brothers and Mommas

  published June 7, 2000

  Public Enemy and Big Momma's House take radically different approaches to African-American nostalgia. More >>

• Holding Back the Years

  published May 31, 2000

  Scottish indie-pop savants Belle and Sebastian keep postponing the doldrums of maturity, one album at a time. More >>

• Killah Priest: View From Masada

  published May 24, 2000

  Killah Priest View From Masada MCA   THE WU-TANG EULOGY has become the hip-hop tastemaker's... More >>

• Last Exit to Brooklyn

  published May 17, 2000

  Woody Allen advertises his inner Everyman in the crime/class caper Small Time Crooks. More >>

• Twice-Told Tales

  published May 17, 2000

  Recovering rock critic Marlee MacLeod More >>

• Tripped Out

  published May 10, 2000

  The film junketeer's absurd travels have nothing on the screwy Road Trip. More >>

• Symphony of a City

  published May 10, 2000

  Suzzy Roche hits the road with a new album about the beauty of staying home. More >>