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2002 Stories by Laura Bond

• Hit Pick

  published December 26, 2002

  Ross Kersten probably owes Paul Westerberg about six million beers. As the leader of the LaDonnas through the '90s, the Wisconsin-born... More >>

• Backwash

  published December 19, 2002

  The Colorado Music Association unveiled its Music Directory at a holiday party this past Sunday, passing out copies of the comprehensive talent... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published December 19, 2002

  Annie Quick, who appears Thursday, December 19, at Ziggie's Saloon, has a way of both blending into and stepping out of her environment.... More >>

• House of Blues

  published December 12, 2002

  Durward Minor is losing his chops a little bit every day. For this he can blame both arthritis and inertia: It's been nearly four months since he... More >>

• Backwash

  published December 12, 2002

  Members of Three Degrees of Freedom recently made a very serious investment in their future, one that suggests a rock-and-roll variation on... More >>

• Backwash

  published December 5, 2002

  The chamber of commerce and the census bureau do not appear to keep records on the number of bars per capita operating in our fair city. The... More >>

• Backwash

  published November 28, 2002

  Earlier this year, Celeste Krenz and her husband, Bob Tyler, surrendered their spot as one of Colorado's country-music power couples... More >>

• Backwash

  published November 21, 2002

  There was really nothing Backwash wanted to do more than spend the evening in an animal suit. Fortunately, the Warner Bros. publicist... More >>

• Backwash

  published November 14, 2002

  Aubrey Collins is feeling a little tired when I call her on a Friday morning, and it's easy to understand why. Yesterday she woke up with a... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published November 14, 2002

  "High concept" is a term that often connotes an overwrought art project -- something self-consciously deep or, worse, "important." But when... More >>

• Backwash

  published November 7, 2002

  There was just too much rain in Seattle for Scott Kerr. "I always thought that gray, cloudy days were my favorite," says Kerr, the... More >>

• Methods of Mayhem

  published October 31, 2002

  Minty fresh. That's how the side of the bottle describes the blood's taste. Pacing on the deck of a suburban home in gigantic platform boots... More >>

• Backwash

  published October 24, 2002

  Over the course of the past year, the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News have discovered that there is indeed a music scene in... More >>

• Marcy Baruch

  published October 17, 2002

  Red-haired and musically ambidextrous, Marcy Baruch has pole-vaulted into the inner sanctum of Denver-area singer-songwriters. Her debut... More >>

• Backwash

  published October 17, 2002

  Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur have been in the news more often recently than they were during their heydays as East and West Coast... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published October 17, 2002

  Since the demise of the late, great Foreskin 500, most of Dave Kerr's appearances before local audiences have found him standing behind a... More >>

• Backwash

  published October 10, 2002

  My friends were skeptical when I told them we'd be spending Saturday night watching a musical about an East German transgendered rock-star wannabe... More >>

• Drive, She Said

  published October 3, 2002

  The man behind the wheel of the forty-foot passenger bus sits and waits for 9:12 a.m., the minute that he's scheduled to pull out of a stop at... More >>

• Backwash

  published October 3, 2002

  When Kurt Ottaway and Jason Cotter decided to pull their heads out of the underground and take over a legitimate music venue, they... More >>

• Backwash

  published September 26, 2002

  Danny Shafer has recently undergone a change of heart. For one thing, he's been wired to a honky-tonk frequency, studying the players and... More >>

• Morbid Angels

  published September 19, 2002

  On stage, Cephalic Carnage's Zac spends most of his time swinging his head and his guitar, sweating, screaming and abusing listeners with the... More >>

• Rainville

  published September 19, 2002

  A followup to 1999's excellent Collecting Empties, Rainville's second CD is another impressive showcase for songwriter John Common, who's... More >>

• Backwash

  published September 19, 2002

  If you were to tune into KTKX 91.5/FM, a low-watt radio station beaming out of Texarkana, Texas, you might find yourself humming along to a voice... More >>

• Backwash

  published September 12, 2002

  Even though the weather indicates otherwise, the calendar and our post-Labor Day doldrums tell us that the summer of 2002 is fading fast. And... More >>

• Backwash

  published September 5, 2002

  I sometimes wonder why so many hardworking bands, in Denver and everywhere else in the world, continue to regard the acquisition of a major-label... More >>