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2000 Stories by John Floyd

• Various artists

  published December 7, 2000

  Like a zombie in a shopping mall, impervious to the bullets fired at its heart by the desperate and weary, the tribute album continues to stomp... More >>

• Devo

  published November 2, 2000

  Like the earliest Warner Brothers and Max Fleischer cartoons, the screwball charm of Devo's early home-baked recordings has held up amazingly well... More >>

• Dave Alvin

  published October 26, 2000

  How to explain this staggeringly dull compendium of ancient folk and blues standards done up by one of altcountry's founding fathers? More >>

• Billy Bragg & Wilco

  published August 31, 2000

  Give or take an occasional oddity such as For a Few Dollars More or The Godfather, Part Two, sequels seldom work as well as their... More >>

• T-Model Ford

  published August 24, 2000

  Robert Belfour What's Wrong With You (Fat Possum) The scope and depth of... More >>

• Archers of Loaf

  published June 8, 2000

  Archers of Loaf Seconds Before the Accident (Alias) Alternately dissonant and melodic, cacophonous yet inarguably... More >>

• The Willard Grant Conspiracy

  published March 16, 2000

  The Willard Grant Conspiracy Mojave More >>

• Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

  published March 2, 2000

  Bruce Springsteen's career, on stage and on record, is arguably the most consistently brilliant of any artist of the last 30 years. But his... More >>

• Malachi Thompson

  published February 24, 2000

  Malachi Thompson Rising Daystar More >>

• Ken Vandermark's Sound in Action Trio

  published February 3, 2000

  Ken Vandermark's Sound in Action Trio Design in Time More >>

• Robbie Fulks

  published January 20, 2000

  Robbie Fulks The Very Best of Robbie Fulks (Bloodshot) Robbie Fulks is that rarest of pop commodities: a wiseass... More >>

• Heart and Soul

  published January 13, 2000

  He waxed rhapsodic about the joys and mysteries of romance. He essayed with passion on the despair of heartbreak and loss. His songs surveyed the... More >>

• Short Cuts

  published January 6, 2000

  Various Artists Magnolia (Reprise) Down through the ages, one art form has always had the potential to inspire... More >>