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2005 Stories by Rich Sharp

• Eight Is Not Enough

  published November 30, 2005

  In the seminal 1997 film The Apostle, Robert Duvall plays Euliss "Sonny" Dewey. A charismatic Pentecostal preacher who travels across the... More >>

• The Morning After

  published November 16, 2005

  Sometimes it takes a jarring catastrophe to make things right. When you're My Morning Jacket, catastrophe arrives when two of your long-time... More >>

• The Mae Shi

  published November 16, 2005

  When dastardly thieves broke into LA-based experimental art-rock act The Mae Shi's van last month, they walked off with 200 copies of the... More >>

• Whoa, Nelly!

  published October 26, 2005

  GWAR at Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois. Show starts at 7 p.m. Monday, October 31. Tickets are $18; call 618-274-6720 for more... More >>

• Jem

  published October 26, 2005

  The big TV networks have taken to using the soulful, patently inoffensive music of Welsh electro-songstress Jem to promote their... More >>

• The Yellow Umbrella Tour

  published October 19, 2005

  In Hal Ashby's 1971 cult classic Harold and Maude, chronically depressed, fake-suicide king Harold meets the vivacious elderly vixen Maude... More >>

• Will Hoge

  published October 5, 2005

  When Will Hoge released 2000's Carousel, he walked a thin line between nondescript, Counting Crows-style frat rock and... More >>

• Take Me Out

  published September 21, 2005

  Idlewild is often described as a mix of the Smiths (poetic, existential lyrics like "Gertrude Stein said that's enough/I know that that's not... More >>

• Paperback Master of Puppets

  published September 7, 2005

  Earlier this year -- in an abrupt about-face from the whiny sellout he portrayed in the documentary Some Kind of Monster -- Metallica... More >>

• Bobby Conn & the Glass Gypsies

  published August 31, 2005

  Bobby Conn has the same charm as high-pitched Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins: a bold, Meat Loaf-and-mascara glam-rock grandiosity.... More >>

• Pelican

  published August 17, 2005

  Many otherwise perfectly respectable metal acts have been rendered utterly useless by piss-poor vocals and dirt-dumb, by-the-numbers lyrics about... More >>

• Suzanne Vega

  published August 10, 2005

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• The Warlocks

  published July 20, 2005

  When a band takes on the name that both the Grateful Dead and the Velvet Underground once claimed as their own, it's either bound for rock glory... More >>

• Black Eyed Peas

  published June 29, 2005

  "We don't use dollars to represent, we just use our innocence and talent," claimed the Black Eyed Peas on their 1998 debut album, Behind... More >>

• Jurassic 5 (opening for the Dave Matthews Band)

  published June 1, 2005

  When the Jurassic 5 released its head-bobbing positive hip-hop manifesto Quality Control in 2000, it was an instant summer-barbecue... More >>

• Murder Most Fun

  published May 18, 2005

  The Killers vs. the Killers Hide your women. Hide the children. Glammed-up synth-punkers The... More >>

• The Ponys

  published May 18, 2005

  Chicagoans The Ponys bolted out of the gate with their 2004 debut, Laced with Romance, a raucous, reverb-drenched affair that... More >>

• Of Montreal

  published April 27, 2005

  The "Here Comes the Sun"-worshipping Elephant 6 collective may have officially disbanded a couple of years back, but it seems no one told Of... More >>