Email Author Paul Friswold

2001 Stories by Paul Friswold

• Pledge Ingenious

  published December 5, 2001

  Way back in the early '90s, during America's last War on Evil (also spearheaded by a Bush, for you trivia buffs), graphic artist Art Chantry... More >>

• Weezer with Tenacious D and Jimmy Eat World

  published November 28, 2001

  The scene: the cafeteria of a typical suburban high school, 1988. The camera pulls in close on a young Rivers Cuomo, a sensitive, frail, artistic... More >>

• Slayer

  published November 21, 2001

  "Heavy metal is the last big burp of Christianity," said Anton LaVey. If the Black Pope was correct -- and why wouldn't he be, having been closer... More >>

• Fugazi

  published November 14, 2001

  "This country was built by complainers, wasn't it?" Mike Watt asked in the liner notes to the Minutemen's classic Ballot Result, and he was... More >>

• Hatchet Job

  published October 31, 2001

  Previous experience has taught us that honesty in reviewing local musical offerings is not always appreciated and is, in fact, usually met with... More >>

• Terrible Beauty

  published October 17, 2001

  Iggy Pop performs on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at the Pageant. More >>

• Butthole Surfers

  published October 10, 2001

  The Butthole Surfers have finally made the most perverse, offensive album of their blasphemous career. This is not a good thing. Weird... More >>

• Mike Watt and the Tom and Jerry Show with Cobra Verde and Sound of Urchin.

  published September 19, 2001

  Mike Watt here. Where? Incommunicado. Yeah, not on the radio. Lifetime in the van, lifetime on the lam, lifeline runs through too many... More >>

• Rollins Band

  published September 5, 2001

  FROM: Low-S.O.@hotmail.com TO: R.A.G.E. Server SUBJECT: Rollins Band show at the Pageant THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: My muscles... More >>

• Samhain

  published August 22, 2001

  Ahh, Samhain. Birthed from the unholy coupling of the Misfits' horror-punk and Glenn Danzig's self-proclaimed "better understanding of the world,"... More >>

• The Mellowfeathers with Brick Bat and the French New Wave

  published July 25, 2001

  Skateboarding and punk rock have a mutual history as tangled, sweaty and bombastic as a pair of masked Mexican wrestlers locked in a grudge match.... More >>

• Frequent Flier

  published July 18, 2001

  If you've lived in the St. Louis metro area for any length of time, you've seen the less-than subtle fliers made by the Conformists. You know the... More >>

• Tool

  published June 20, 2001

  Having completed their fourth album, Silence (clocking in at a Crowleyan five years in length), Tool return with their Blue Equinox,... More >>

• Wylde At Heart

  published June 13, 2001

  Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. -- John Milton The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do,... More >>

• Reverend Horton Heat

  published May 30, 2001

  You can take the hustler out of the pool hall, but you can't take the pool hall out of the hustler. The Reverend Horton Heat may be a man... More >>

• The 2001 RFT Slammies

  published May 16, 2001

  Artist of the Year -- Nelly Recording of the Year -- Country Grammar Best Rap Artist -- Nelly We abased ourselves to... More >>

• Champing at the Bit

  published May 9, 2001

  The Fucking Champs, as the name oh-so-subtly implies, is not a band that minces words. In fact, they rarely use words. Of the 37 songs on their... More >>

• Morning Has Broken

  published April 25, 2001

  How many times, through the ages, will the sublime drama we are creating be performed in unknown tongues, before an audience which is yet to be!"... More >>

• The Pixies

  published April 18, 2001

  The Pixies is one of those bands rock & roll seems incapable of replicating. Formed in the post-punk, post-new wave, pre-grunge '80s, the group... More >>

• Sepultura

  published April 11, 2001

  The acid test for any heavy-metal album is its ability to incapacitate the listener. If it's any good, you should be unable to do anything except... More >>

• Soulfly

  published April 4, 2001

  Soulfly is what religious music should be: not the insipid platitudes and mealy-mouthed devotions favored by mainstream Christian pop but,... More >>

• BIGdumbFACE with El Greco

  published March 28, 2001

  Right up front: The only reason anyone in the world could possibly care about the BIGdumbFACE is because it is the work of one of the dopes... More >>

• Jonathan Richman

  published March 21, 2001

  In answer to the unasked question, yes, Jonathan Richman, "rock's wonderfully eccentric craftsman," is the same slightly bemused-looking... More >>

• J Mascis and the Fog

  published March 21, 2001

  Attention, indie-rock nation: On March 26, you should sleep later than usual, start the afternoon with a big bowl of cereal, follow it up... More >>

• Hard Volume

  published March 21, 2001

  "Sellout Motherfucker of the Year: Henry Rollins." That was the judgment handed down by the editors of Thrasher magazine a few years back.... More >>