Subject: James Karnes

• Payne Pill

  January 23, 1997

• Live Wire

  February 27, 1997

• Payne Relief

  How good fortune turned a skinny duo into the Valley's most inventive and engaging heavyweight act

  January 29, 1998

• Phony War

  Les Payne Product starts a joke, which starts the whole world crying

  April 2, 1998

• Running of the Mill

  April 30, 1998

• House of Pain

  Bldg 5 benefit for Autumn House inspired by tragedy that hit close to home

  January 14, 1999

• New Times Music Showcase 1999 Nominees

  April 15, 1999

• Onward, Crispin Soldiers

  Six years ago, Ryan Page and Mike Pallagi were high school kids who idolized eccentric actor Crispin Glover. Now they're producing films with him.

  July 15, 1999

• Indigenous Voices

  The Native American music scene gets in tune with a new radio show

  August 17, 2000

• Gray Matters

  Less Pain Forever has its brains and eats them, too

  December 28, 2006

• Less Pain Forever, and Peachcake

  Now We Have Something to Celebrate
  (Western Tread)

  September 7, 2006

• Less Pain Forever

  Take as needed

  September 1, 2005

• Critics VS 2002: Rebuilding From Ash

  2002 spent the year in a 9/11 hangover. Through the confusion, notable and amazing works still arose

  January 2, 2003

• Gut Check

  Half of Less Pain Forever morphs into the minimalist Lovers of Guts. But does the one-man band have the stomach to perform solo?

  July 4, 2002

• Pain Relievers

  After marauding up and down the East Coast, and befriending Ween, Less Pain Forever returns for the holidays

  December 20, 2001

• Scenery Stealers

  After seven years, Reubens Accomplice finally delivers on all its promise with I Blame the Scenery

  August 23, 2001

• Payne-Less

  The artists currently known as Less Pain Forever reveal their greatest hoaxes. But will the last time be the charm?

  May 31, 2001

• Mill Landing

  The sixth annual New Times Music Showcase brings together the Valley's best, brightest and weirdest

  April 26, 2001

• Europe Feels Their Payne

  How Les Payne opened an overseas Orifice

  March 16, 2000