Email Author Niles Baranowski

2001 Stories by Niles Baranowski

• Pigface with Gravity Kills

  published December 12, 2001

  If you're anybody in industrial music, chances are, you've punched the clock for Pigface (pictured) at some point. The revolving-door... More >>

• Garbage

  published October 31, 2001

  What the hell happened to Butch Vig? Ten years ago, you couldn't have overestimated his influence or abilities. He produced not only Nirvana's... More >>

• Tori Amos with Rufus Wainwright

  published October 24, 2001

  On her new album, Strange Little Girls, Tori Amos covers songs that male songwriters (ranging from Joe Jackson to Eminem) have... More >>

• Tricky with Tool

  published October 17, 2001

  After grunge and before prefab pop, there was a brief interlude of something historians refer to as trip-hop. The ancient among you may remember... More >>

• Firewater

  published October 3, 2001

  Make your own guesses about Firewater's setlist, but there's one song sure to be conspicuously absent from the band's sleazy, uncomfortably... More >>

• Jimmy Eat World

  published September 12, 2001

  It's been about three years since Jimmy Eat World released an original album, and in that time they've changed labels, released a rarities... More >>

• Potomac Accord, the Julia Sets and the Mouse That Roared

  published August 22, 2001

  The Pageant may be St. Louis' most lauded new concert hall, but it's the little things that keep life interesting. And the littlest new venue in... More >>

• Rebel, Rebel

  published August 15, 2001

  Like any proper rock star, singer/guitarist Peter Hayes of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is drugged up and dogged by vicious hallucinations --... More >>

• O.A.R. and the Baldwin Brothers

  published August 15, 2001

  Unlike the Bacon Brothers, you won't find the Baldwin Brothers spooning up perfunctory bar rock; nor will you find any screen idols in the... More >>

• Travis

  published August 1, 2001

  Can a happy song bring you to tears? Is beauty stronger than force? If you've forgotten that either question sometimes elicits a "yes," The... More >>

• Gorillaz

  published June 27, 2001

  In this age of Popstars and Making the Band, the idea of a fully manufactured pop group is hardly a windmill to tilt against. A... More >>

• Depeche Mode

  published June 13, 2001

  Their name may mean "hurry-up style," but there hasn't been a whole lot of speed in Depeche Mode's music since 1991's Violator. Barring... More >>

• Brave Neu! World

  published May 30, 2001

  For a band whose albums have never been released outside Germany, Neu! cast a disproportionately long shadow over modern music. The gliding pulse... More >>

• Hefner

  published May 23, 2001

  Hefner write songs like the ones Billy Bragg did before he became a medium for Woody Guthrie: simple, catchy and fueled by the tension between sex... More >>

• Cousteau

  published May 9, 2001

  No offense to Nick Drake, but isn't it time to give another neglected singer/songwriter a turn in the chair? How about a few Saab ads for Tim... More >>

• Dave Matthews Band

  published May 2, 2001

  How nice a guy is Dave Matthews? So nice that he'll even cut an album for his nonbelievers. His career wasn't floundering, or his cult waning,... More >>

• Sound of Satellites

  published April 18, 2001

  Rhett Miller, singer and guitarist for the Old 97's, seems awfully calm for a man about to start 10 weeks of American touring for what may be his... More >>

• Black Box Recorder

  published April 18, 2001

  "Life is unfair; kill yourself or get over it" went the chorus to Black Box Recorder's first single, "Child Psychology." The first option is as... More >>