Email Author Melissa Maerz

2002 Stories by Melissa Maerz

• Top of the Pop

  published December 18, 2002

  The Year's Best National Albums (A Wholly Objective and Statistically Sound List) More >>

• Everything In Moderation

  published November 20, 2002

  Mary Robison: Tell Me More >>

• Punch-Drunk Love

  published November 13, 2002

  Taking a beating from Black Dice--and loving it. More >>

• Día de los Muertos

  published November 6, 2002

  Propped against the wall at an awkward angle, an animal-hide satchel holds a tiny plastic skeleton. More >>

• One Foot in the Grave

  published October 16, 2002

  A melancholic Beck waxes fatalistic on 'Sea Change'. More >>

• I'm Still Standing

  published October 9, 2002

  S.U.S.P.E.C.T.S.: R.I.P. More >>

• Iron and Wine: The Creek Drank the Cradle

  published October 2, 2002

  Iron and Wine The Creek Drank the Cradle Sub Pop Sam Beam sounds like something you'd swig from a... More >>

• Cold Cuts

  published September 11, 2002

  Eating dog, serving man: Signal to Trust's northern mythology. More >>

• The Agony and the Ecstasy

  published September 4, 2002

  Filmmaker Benno Nelson parlays his trippy 'method' into a retrospective. More >>

• Zen Circus

  published August 28, 2002

  Lard swimming and bear-wrasslin' with the Microphones' Phil Elvrum. More >>

• You Don't Have The Right To Remain Silent

  published August 21, 2002

  Making a lot of noise over a few quiet moments. More >>

• Lonesome Crowded Midwest

  published August 7, 2002

  Desaparecidos watch malaise overrun America's heartland. More >>

• Don't Speak

  published July 31, 2002

  The Stratford 4's lyrics prove the virtues of the instrumental. More >>

• Feels like the First Time

  published July 10, 2002

  DJ Jake Rudh shares some old stories about new wave. More >>

• Come On, Feel the Noise

  published July 3, 2002

  The music of Lightning Bolt and Erase Errata speaks volumes. More >>

• Puppet Regime

  published June 19, 2002

  You won't believe what Quintron and Miss Pussycat can do with a marionette. More >>

• Pure Funk for Now People

  published June 5, 2002

  A band called !!! plays music from the other eighties. More >>

• Invisible Cities

  published May 22, 2002

  An open zine collects the manifestoes of street poets, single dads, and itinerant academicians. More >>

• Radio Active

  published May 15, 2002

  Postpunk rallies against Giuliani's legacy. More >>

• Dan Israel: Cedar Lake

  published May 15, 2002

  Dan Israel Cedar Lake Persistent Records Sad lyrics don't necessarily make sad songs. (The best... More >>

• Sussed Out!

  published May 8, 2002

  Polara's Ed Ackerson launches the Susstones multimedia collective. More >>

• Quiet is the New Loud

  published April 24, 2002

  Spiritualized's noisy bombast vs. Pan American's soft sound. More >>

• Freeze Frame

  published April 3, 2002

  That's just the sound of Brit hip hop. Or is it hip Britpop? Sometimes with Hood, it's hard to tell. More >>

• Bands on the Run

  published March 27, 2002

  Road-tripping to Texas for South by Southwest. More >>

• In My Room

  published March 20, 2002

  The Ashtray Hearts find music in a Minneapolis apartment. More >>