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2002 Stories by Jay Babcock

• Larger Than Life

  published December 12, 2002

  Look closely at almost any significant rock band‘s background, and you’ll find an instigator, a critical link without whom the chain would n... More >>

• The Dangerous Lives of Desert Boys

  published September 5, 2002

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• Empire of Doom

  published August 8, 2002

  The Lair of Doom lies on a Hollywood boulevard, upstairs from a Thai restaurant. There, above the ambulance sirens and Metro bus brake squeals... More >>

• Rock and Indeed Roll

  published August 8, 2002

  THE DATSUNSat Spaceland, July 18THE KILLSat the Silverlake Lounge, July 18 Mike Watt calls them clone bands: those groups who wear... More >>

• One Band, Under God

  published July 18, 2002

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• Use Your Allusion

  published July 4, 2002

  Josh Pearson, the 28-year-old singer-guitarist-songwriter for the Texas-based art-rock band Lift to Experience, lives and works in a world... More >>

• Lizard Queens and Amazing Things

  published July 4, 2002

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• Partying Harder Than Thou

  published June 20, 2002

  ANDREW W.K.at House of Blues, May 31 One night before Israeli klezmer outfit Simply Tsfat hit town for what was (according to our... More >>

• Like a Rhinestone Preacher

  published May 16, 2002

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• Midnight Movies at the Planetarium

  published May 9, 2002

  It‘s easy when you know how To get along without Biff! Bang! Pow! --Super Furry Animals, “Juxtapozed Wi... More >>

• Canon Fodder

  published April 18, 2002

  THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES at the Point Loma Quality Inn Hotel, March 23 ”They’re gonna a build a new dimensionAnd ma... More >>

• One More Real Cool Time

  published March 21, 2002

  When Ron and Scott Asheton walk onstage March 15 to perform songs from the first two Stooges albums, we will be witnessing a genuinely special... More >>

• Akashic Offering

  published March 21, 2002

  “Know that it is not imagination, but experience, which makes poetry. And that behind every image, behind every word, there is something I a... More >>

• Face Value

  published March 14, 2002

  From the looks of his debut album‘s front cover -- the one with the photo of a bloody-nosed, wet-longhaired Adonis -- the 23-year-ol... More >>

• A Dossier of Desperate Measures

  published February 28, 2002

  Photo by Arthur E. Giron 1. From Hippocrates’ Aphorisms, circa 400 B.C.: “87. Those diseases which... More >>

• The Rational Shaman

  published January 10, 2002

  Photo by Richard Pleuger Dressed in black and more than 6 feet tall, his head enshrouded by a mass of hippie hair and beard, writer Alan... More >>