Email Author Zac Crain

2003 Stories by Zac Crain

• Richard X

  published September 18, 2003

  On the back cover of the CD booklet that accompanies Richard X's first full-length is an anti-piracy statement from EMI Music (Astralwerks'... More >>

• The Roots

  published August 14, 2003

  Near the end of the Roots' sixth album Phrenology is a song (the 10-minute-plus "Water") that underlines, italicizes and boldfaces the... More >>

• Clem Snide

  published July 3, 2003

  On their fourth album, Clem Snide show they have a Soft Spot for the other side of summer, the mellow melancholy that creeps up on you at... More >>

• The (International) Noise Conspiracy

  published February 6, 2003

  Never understood why the Hives were the ones tagged as Your New Favourite Band (from Sweden, anyway), when The (International) Noise... More >>

• Cut, Print, Next Shot

  published January 23, 2003

  BLACK. We hear someone softly speaking in Italian, then... FADE IN: A HOTEL ROOM – EARLY EVENING The room is in slight disarray... More >>

• Stumbler Party

  published January 9, 2003

  When Brent Best laughs, it sounds like the slide racking on a shotgun. Sounds that way when he coughs, too. Sometimes when he sings. It's a little... More >>