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2002 Stories by Paul Friswold

• Sissy Spacek with Panicsville, Foamula and BMBM

  published December 18, 2002

  Sissy Spacek is not so much a band as an evolutionary step in the changing role of producer as it mutates from sedentary, knob-twiddling... More >>

• New Bands From Old

  published December 11, 2002

  The supergroup is one of rock & roll's best innovations. Taking established talent and combining it with another acknowledged talent is a... More >>

• Dead Meadow with the Sons of Shame

  published November 27, 2002

  Now that the leaves are mostly killed off and the afternoons have become long gray affairs with dark endings, it's the right time for the... More >>

• Rockin' Leprechaun

  published November 20, 2002

  The last time Jonathan Richman came through town, an RFT writer who shall remain nameless concocted a complex theory about Richman's role... More >>

• Darin Gray

  published November 6, 2002

  "Solo bass album" is the sort of phrase that induces tremors and mild nausea among rock fans. Who wants to hear a guy such as Billy Sheehan spank... More >>

• High on Fire with Mushroomhead, Shadow's Fall and Avenged Sevenfold

  published November 6, 2002

  High on Fire comes from the other side of the holy mountain -- the dark side of the mountain. Guitarist Matt Pike used to bless the chalice... More >>

• Non

  published October 30, 2002

  Children of the Black Sun is an elliptical journey, a brief, invigorating passage through one orbit of Boyd Rice's vision. It's an album... More >>

• Sicbay Basics

  published October 16, 2002

  Subject: Dazzling Killmen "Killing Fever" seven-inch up for auction. Just put this on eBay tonight. Might take a while before you... More >>

• Isis with Dälek and the Oxes

  published September 25, 2002

  In the superheated and hard-boiled math/metal parallel universe, Isis stands slightly ahead and to the side of its peers. Bands such as... More >>

• Queens of the Stone Age with ... And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead and Peaches

  published September 18, 2002

  Imagine, if you will, a late-night visit from the shade of poor dead Brian Jones wherein he charges you with putting together a band to fight the... More >>

• Phantomsmasher

  published September 11, 2002

  James Plotkin has earned his reputation as an innovative, brutal guitarist/bassist through his genre-bending work with Old Lady Drivers, Flux,... More >>

• Deadsy with Taproot, Dredge and the 5th Element

  published September 4, 2002

  Why Deadsy? Why now? The answers to these and other esoteric questions are buried in the digitized philosophical treatise... More >>

• Swans

  published August 21, 2002

  This is the sound of drowning in your own lungs. This is concussion and suffocation, the shambolic waste of the perpetual drunk thrashing... More >>

• Gravity Killed

  published August 21, 2002

  After the resounding success of the last Black Ribbon Record Reviewing Panel (five letters to the editor, 80 percent of which were from bands... More >>

• Ozzfest 2002

  published August 14, 2002

  In the space of two albums, System of a Down has emerged as the most challenging and dynamic metal band since Sepultura broke through with... More >>

• St. Losers

  published July 17, 2002

  And so to put the punchline before the joke, to douse all hopes before they can be aroused by 1,200 words of purply praising prose, Lee Ranaldo --... More >>

• Oops, They Did It Again

  published July 10, 2002

  And then, when all hope left the East Side, when it seemed St. Louis would be forevermore a haven to garage/alt-country/rockabilly/bling-bling,... More >>

• Kittie with Poison the Well, Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage and Hotwire

  published July 3, 2002

  Heavy metal has a long and ignoble tradition of female-led bands that just begs for a juicy Behind the Music-type documentary. In light of... More >>

• Nebula with Nashville Pussy

  published June 19, 2002

  Nebula hails from the sun-dappled wasteland that is Southern California, which, as everyone knows, serves as the headwaters of the great... More >>

• The Fucking Champs

  published May 22, 2002

  The Fucking Champs are students of a discipline known as Total Music: By meticulously combining high-technology audio equipment, massive... More >>

• John Cale

  published May 15, 2002

  Once again, time turns back on itself and yields an artifact of great cultural and artistic importance, and once again the agent of chance is John... More >>

• 2002 Riverfront Times Music Award Winners

  published May 15, 2002

  St. Lunatics Best Rap, Recording of the Year It's been a very good year for the St. Lunatics, individually and collectively. In the... More >>

• Massamalgam

  published April 24, 2002

  You may remember Mark Deutsch from repeated airings of the PBS short series Expressions, which focuses on the achievements of the local... More >>

• Electric Eels

  published April 10, 2002

  At last! Woulda-been, coulda-been, shoulda-been legends the Electric Eels finally get the respect and retrospection and full-length release they,... More >>

• Motörhead with Morbid Angel, Speedealer and Today Is the Day

  published April 10, 2002

  To some people, the continuing existence of Motörhead is one of life's impenetrable mysteries. These people have heard of... More >>