BOD Rewind: Maximo Park
Catching up with Maximo Park, SPIN.com's Band of the Day on Jan. 25, 2005
By Jessica Grose; Spin Staff 01.30.06 4:00 AM
It's been an undeniably triumphant year for Maximo Park. When they debuted their first seven-inch single, 2004's The Coast Is Always Changing/The Night I Lost My Head, they were a relatively obscure act from Northeast England. But Maximo rose rapidly through the effusive NME hype machine, managing to have four top 20 hits on the U.K.
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Manorexia: The Hippest Disease Since the Clap
By Jessica Grose 01.24.06 4:00 AM
I've already accepted the fact that the fashion industry is around to humiliate me. I accepted this sometime around age twelve, when I realized that overalls, while momentarily in fashion (it was 1994), made everyone look like the Michelin man -- fleshy and lumpy and poking out in the wrong places.
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BOD Rewind: Mates of State
Catching up with Mates of State, SPIN.com's Band of the Day on Jan. 10, 2005
By Jessica Grose; Spin Staff 01.20.06 4:00 AM
This is the first in a regular series that revisits SPIN.com Band of the Day alumni.
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Duncan Sheik, 'White Limousine' (Rounder)
By Jessica Grose 01.11.06 4:00 AM
Poor Duncan Sheik. It must be hard to be neutered. In the mid-'90s, he was a spry young pup with a semi-original sound: softly haunting guitars, earnest lyrics.
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Opening Pandora.com's Box
In Greek mythology, the goddess Pandora gave Apollo music. Can Pandora.com do the same for mere mortals?
By Jessica Grose; Spin Staff 12.07.05 4:00 AM
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The Cribs Join SPINhouse Family
The Cribs brought some brotherly love to SPINhouse Live #14 at the Gibson Performance Space
By Jessica Grose; Spin Staff 11.29.05 4:00 AM
