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July 2001 Archives

Listening

New Order, Technique
by Andrew Womack
Right now it’s really hot in New York. Really hot. Something about the vacant, tropical, acid-house sound on this album makes it perfect for what we’re all sweating...
Letters From the Editor

Overheard Conversation
by Rosecrans Baldwin
Scene: Register line at a deli. Characters: D (dude), chugging out of a large Sapporo can. GF (girlfriend), waiting for D to finish drinking. D: This place sucks. GF: Let’...
Personalities

Mike Cina of True Is True
by Rosecrans Baldwin
Cina is a designer in the broadest sense. His work spans a wide range of commercial and personal art, including print and web design, typography, painting, photography, and bookmaking. Also, he is a fisherman. Our writer interviews the man behind True is True.
Letters From the Editor

Ask the Audience
by Andrew Womack
Richard Rosner, a former ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ contestant, is suing the show because he claims that the correct answer to the question that knocked him off the...
Listening

The Lies, Resigned
by Andrew Womack
In this album San Francisco’s The Lies have crafted an intense, lovely, soaring effort that touches so many different levels of emotion and influence that this seems almost to...
Listening

Adult., Resuscitation
by Andrew Womack
Detroit’s Adult. (always written with the period) is detailed, nuanced, modern, electronic music for every activity that comes to mind. Hard to describe, except in that it features pervasive...
Personalities

Sam Brown of Exploding Dog
by Rosecrans Baldwin
Sam Brown of Exploding Dog makes drawings from your titles. A simple formula for an author/reader exchange, and Sam has made some very funny, heartwearming drawings that touch us with their simplicity. ROSECRANS BALDWIN talks to the Dog.