Intimate Portrait: Ryan Adams
Inside Ryan Adams's house: brownies, but no nudity
By Spin Staff; William V. Meter 07.23.03 3:00 AM
When ex-Whiskeytown leader Ryan Adams released the album Gold last year, it seemed like everyone was talking about him. Now Adams is back with Demolition, a collection of tracks recorded at the same time as Gold. I called him in New York City on my cell phone while being chased by a gang on razor scooters.
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Bands to Watch: Sahara Hotnights
Who:
Super-badass, all-girl, glam-punk quartet
Super-badass, all-girl, glam-punk quartet
By Alex Pappademas; Spin Staff 07.23.03 3:00 AM
Where they're from:
Robertsfors, a small town in northern Sweden
What they sound like:
Sleater-Kinney (minus the angst) busting the Runaways out of juvie and peeling off in a 1974 Camaro Z28
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'Pod People
TRIVIAL PURSUITS
That collection of unreleased Starland Vocal Band tracks doesn't have to be the only useless information you save onto your iPod: Info freaks have written a program that lets you transfer up to 900 film entries from the Internet Movie Database (the software can be found at www.magma.ca/ ~sheppard/IMDb/iPod.html). Meanwhile, Roster2iPod (at soundsgoodradio.net/py4ipod) lets you copy the current stats of any Major League Baseball team directly onto the device, turning your MP3 player into one expensive baseball card.
That collection of unreleased Starland Vocal Band tracks doesn't have to be the only useless information you save onto your iPod: Info freaks have written a program that lets you transfer up to 900 film entries from the Internet Movie Database (the software can be found at www.magma.ca/ ~sheppard/IMDb/iPod.html). Meanwhile, Roster2iPod (at soundsgoodradio.net/py4ipod) lets you copy the current stats of any Major League Baseball team directly onto the device, turning your MP3 player into one expensive baseball card.
By Spin Staff 07.23.03 3:00 AM
TRIVIAL PURSUITS
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Beautiful Stranger: Shannyn Sossamon
The first five minutes of The Rules of Attraction, a
blissfully unrepentant look at collegiate hedonism from Pulp
Fiction screenwriter Roger Avary, are a barrage of twisted
energy: James Van Der Beek is dealing drugs and seducing nubile
freshmen; Jessica Biel is downing Jack Daniel's and taking on an
entire football team; and a gorgeous loser played by Shannyn
Sossamon is getting raped and vomited on by a townie while an
accomplice videotapes it all. It's a scene that's cruel and
unnerving--and one that Sossamon wanted to make.
By Spin Staff; Stephen Rebello 07.23.03 3:00 AM
The first five minutes of The Rules of Attraction, a
blissfully unrepentant look at collegiate hedonism from Pulp
Fiction screenwriter Roger Avary, are a barrage of twisted
energy: James Van Der Beek is dealing drugs and seducing nubile
freshmen; Jessica Biel is downing Jack Daniel's and taking on an
entire football team; and a gorgeous loser played by Shannyn
Sossamon is getting raped and vomited on by a townie while an
accomplice videotapes it all. It's a scene that's cruel and
unnerving--and one that Sossamon wanted to make.
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Forever Young: Alexis Bledel
Confronting teen immortality in Tuck Everlasting,
Gilmore Girl Alexis Bledel plays a role she knows all too
well
By Phoebe Reilly; Spin Staff 07.23.03 3:00 AM
Confronting teen immortality in Tuck Everlasting,
Gilmore Girl Alexis Bledel plays a role she knows all too
well
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Live: Weezer/Dashboard Confessional
This Weezer show was a study in spirited schizophrenia, fitting for
a band whose leader, Rivers Cuomo, loves to sing about personality
crises. The set was heavy on Weezer tunes most likely to be found
on mix tapes (but where were "In the Garage" and "Pink Triangle"?),
with Cuomo playing geek one song and guitar god the next. A blazing
"Tired of Sex" blew away a meandering "Burndt Jamb" with a welcome
wave of feedback; a snarly and raw "Hash Pipe" crashed into a
deliberate and dignified "Only in Dreams," like the beefy
jock-rockers probably ran over a shy Cuomo in some high school
hallway long ago. But Cuomo doesn't want to be the guy who looks
just like Buddy Holly anymore. Tonight, his dapper suit and tie put
him a lot closer to Elvis Costello, and his gawky earnestness was
all Jonathan Richman. But there was an intelligence and
vulnerability behind what history will recall as "classic
Weezer"--1994's debut "Blue Album" and its follow-up,
Pinkerton--that was lost behind tonight's
not-so-ironic-anymore flashpots and fog machines.
By Chris Ziegler; Spin Staff 07.23.03 3:00 AM
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