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2001 Stories by Greg Burk

• The Electric Chair

  published December 13, 2001

  Do you wanna be surrounded? A setup diagram on the new electronica surround-sound DVD compilation Awaken shows how to position your TV and six... More >>

• Dos Equis

  published November 22, 2001

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• Divine Suicide

  published November 22, 2001

  CHRIST: A CRISIS IN THE LIFE OF GOD | By JACK MILES | Alfred A. Knopf | 352 pages | $26 hardcover God felt guilty, so he killed... More >>

• The Only Music

  published October 4, 2001

  Writer Phil Freeman loves modern free jazz. Loves it, sad to say, practically to death. Gods, take note: If this man builds you a temple, enter... More >>

• Divinity

  published September 27, 2001

  LEON PARKERThe Simple Life (Label M) Leon Parker could help make jazz a popular art form again. Like Medeski Martin &... More >>

• Dead Serious

  published September 13, 2001

  ”Knife jammed in your assShotgun in your mouth.“ ”I open up the coffin . . . It gets me hardI ejaculate on the corpse.“ ”Pulled ou... More >>

• Rhythm & Belief

  published August 30, 2001

  “After the customs inspectors went through my bags, they wanted to look in my hair,” says Hamid Drake at the end of a hard day’snight‘s jou... More >>

• Don’t Be Afraid

  published August 16, 2001

  Nels Cline‘s music is scary. Not horror-movie scary -- more what Talking Heads were thinking with that title Fear of Music. Deep-reaching ar... More >>

• Kill 'Em All

  published July 19, 2001

  Photos by Greg Burk A LOCUST MADE OF CLOUDS, BIGGER THAN AMERICA, hung in the sky over Ozzfest 2001, at the Glen Helen Blockbuster Pavilion,... More >>

• Children of the Grave

  published July 19, 2001

  Black Sabbath was different. Back in 1969, you could tell just by looking: These were sartorial exiles. Bill Ward, the drummer, remembers the... More >>

• Aural Fixation

  published June 28, 2001

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• Blackwash

  published June 7, 2001

  The phrase dirt cheap is gonna have to be decommissioned. Considering all the celebrity biographies in the bookstores and on TV, there‘s hardl... More >>

• Crush ‘Em

  published May 24, 2001

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• Identity Crisis in Athens

  published May 24, 2001

  One of the reasons my wife likes to travel is local politics. She remembers edgy armed soldiers in the streets of Jerusalem right after the Six... More >>

• Billy Higgins, 1936–2001

  published May 17, 2001

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• Ancestral Spirits

  published May 3, 2001

  The arrival of any improvisational grand master in Los Angeles is a reason for hallelujahs, but the knowledge that you can hear both Yusef... More >>

• Everybody Hurts

  published April 12, 2001

  Photo by Anne FishbeinThere’s something going on here, something different and real that sticks. That was already clear four years ago, whe... More >>

• Axiology

  published April 12, 2001

  WASPUnholy Terror (Metal-Is) Once in a great while I need to suck down a few bad gulletfuls of Jack Daniel’s before writing, an... More >>

• A Home, Grown

  published March 22, 2001

  You often hear about a musician who overcomes a hostile environment to achieve fame and fortune. You almost never hear about a musician who... More >>

• All Grown Up

  published March 15, 2001

  CUONG VU Pure (Knitting Factory) This post-jazz trio album came out a few months ago, but I haven’t had a chance t... More >>

• Of Wasps and Wind

  published March 1, 2001

  James Newton is pissed off. He’s also happy and excited, and the latter conditions are the ones you notice, because his face expresses the... More >>

• Sea of Dirt

  published February 1, 2001

  Stoner-rock bands usually don’t want to be called that, right? Maybe they have a point, and maybe they don‘t. The only way to find out was ... More >>

• Marilyn:
  A Re-Examination

  published January 18, 2001

  Photos and artwork by P.R. Brown IT'S ALL MARILYN MANSON'S FAULT. Violence. Drug abuse. Disrespect for authority. Rejection of religion. Lack... More >>