Articles by Chuck Molgat

Everywhere You Go, Kids Wanna Rock

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2002

Alternative rock is beginning to show its age, and the latest proof is a spate of new CDs intended for children but aimed more squarely at...

Pixies

Pixies

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2002

This latest addition to the ever-growing catalogue of Pixies releases is also the oldest thing these seminal Boston alt-rockers ever put to...

Puffy AmiYumi

An Illustrated History

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2002

Tokyo-based pop duo Puffy AmiYumi may be one of the most misrepresented J-pop bands in North America. Back home in Japan, the unit is known...

Beachwood Sparks

Make the Cowboy Robots Cry

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2002

This six-song EP from California psych-country crooners Beachwood Sparks continues in the languorous, almost dream-inducing vein of last ye...

Hot Hot Heat

Cures The Summertime Blues

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2002

Victoria musician Paul Hawley has only been on the phone for 20 seconds and already there's trouble at the Hot Hot Heat house. A klaxon wai...

Cato Salsa Experience

A Good Tip For A Good Time

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2002

One of these days Scandinavia is going to run out of cool bands making spirited and fun music. That's fine, because at least then there'll...

Pere Ubu

St. Arkansas

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2002

More splendid avant-rock weirdness from David Thomas and his merry band of American art-punk pioneers. Back in the late 1970s and early '80...

Silkworm

Italian Platinum

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2002

Silkworm is making the most of its recent relocation from Seattle to Chicago, which is where the 15-year-old band's current label, Touch an...