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Alaska!

By Melanie Haupt
Feb 19, 2004

If you're one of the dozen or so people who saw the Frances McDormand vehicle Laurel Canyon, you may have noticed some familiar faces from the indie-rock scene on the big screen. McDormand's sexy, middle-aged record producer takes a much younger lover -- the lead singer of a rock band,...
Policy of Truth

A fall from grace was exactly what Dave Gahan needed.

By Melanie Haupt
Aug 7, 2003

I couldn't have written this record five years ago," says Dave Gahan of his long-awaited solo album, Paper Monsters. "I didn't know who I was. I needed to go through everything in order to wake up." Enlightenment isn't arrived at easily. The best lessons in humility often come from being...
The Eeling Power of Music

The man behind the Eels gets happy. Kind of.

By Melanie Haupt
Jul 17, 2003

Mark Oliver Everett, known to discriminating music fans everywhere as "E," headmaster of the Eels, is the guy everyone wanted to be friends with in high school. Blisteringly smart and deadly funny, he's cool enough for the boys to want to be near him and cuddly enough to make the...
God Drang It!

The members of Ester Drang believe in God; they're just not a Christian band.

By Melanie Haupt
Jun 12, 2003

Ester Drang defies the innate human need to categorize and define everything. Each new direction the enigmatic four-piece has taken breeds a new comparison. To slap a label on the group is to invite an almost rebellious metamorphosis. The challenge is to stay one step ahead of the pundits and...
Festival Fun

The hills are alive with the sound of music. Ever wonder why?

By Melanie Haupt
Jun 12, 2003

How do summer music festivals get started? Are they products of some mammoth marketing machine, designed to milk as many dollars as possible from a public hungry for entertainment? Or are they like a suburban-neighborhood block party that starts out as two families grilling together one summer afternoon and then...

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