The Vines

This article originally appeared in the January 2003 issue of SPIN. "Is it okay to let the girls in?" Smoggy asks. The Strokes'

Last we'd heard from Vines' frontman Craig Nicholls, it was 2012 and he'd been arrested for punching his mother. The band's saga has been a…

The Vines' Craig Nicholls has gotten free, for now. As Sydney's Daily Telegraph reports, the Australian rock group's frontman is out on bail after being…

Add another sad twist to the strange saga of the Vines. Way back in 2002, the fuzzed-out Australian guitar-poppers drew acclaim from SPIN and other…

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I wanted to hit Craig Nicholls. I had determined that the Vines' 27-year-old leader was a hopeless, infuriating interview subject, and I had traveled 8,000…