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Barenaked Ladies / Guster

By Andy Argyrakis

Adventures in Stereo / Waxwings / Chamber Strings

By Ben Varkentine

Adventures In Stereo, the Beach Boys influenced pop group from the UK, stopped in Seattle near the end of the month-long Bobsled Tour, featuring artists from that label.

Wilco

By Charles Marshall

's performance at Towson's Recher Theatre, not even as the band opened their set with 45 minutes of music from Mermaid Avenue, the two-volume collection of unfinished Woody Guthrie songs that Tweedy and co-collaborator Billy Bragg put to music.

Jets to Brazil / Shiner

By James Mann

Formed out of the rubble of the late, lamented Jawbreaker, Jets to Brazil has garnered a reputation as a literate post-punk pop band, and they proved it spades live.

Eve 6

By Andy Argyrakis

Weezer / Dynamite Hack

By Andy Argyrakis

A tour featuring Dynamite Hack and Weezer may seem like the newer band hoping to ride the coat tails of the one who's already formed a huge fan base.

BT

By Wayne Heyward

It's been said about a thousand times that electronica needs a face before it can become a part of the US pop music mainstream.

Brian Wilson

By David Fufkin

, the enigmatic leader of The Beach Boys, one of the great pop composers of this century.

Jethro Tull

By Larry Rodman

The platinum-wigged female string quartet has been conspicuously absent since 1974's Warchild tour, and the bassist who once sported a matching diagonal black and white striped suit and guitar has long since moved on.

Freeheat

By Wilson Neate

Since the inglorious public demise of the Jesus and Mary Chain in 1998, when William Reid quit the band onstage in Los Angeles, the brothers Reid have gone their separate musical ways.

King’s X

By Scott Hudson

There have been very few times in my life where I have been completely bowled over by a band's sound, music so special that it seemingly knocked you out of your seat.

The Indigo Girls (with Spearhead and Rose Pelanzaro)

By Patrick Schabe

Ian Brown

By Wilson Neate

although John Squire might disagree - that there is life after the Stone Roses.

Primal Scream

By Wilson Neate

are back.

Elliott Smith

By Jon Munn

As the show progressed, I couldn¹t help but notice that the set list consisted almost entirely of tracks from Figure 8