Articles by Helen Spitzer

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  Shelley Campbell

  Blue Ridge Reveille

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  As a wayward bible college student in Lynchburg, Virginia, Shelley Campbell would seek out the other preachers’ kids and hitchhike to the n...

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  Child's Play

  Next Generation Rockers Get a Head Start

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2005

  It used to be that parents and rock music were natural enemies. Lately though, kids who wanna rock out are more likely to be aided and abet...

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  John Vanderslice

  Pixel Revolt

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2005

  There comes a point in your life when, if you don’t change the way you’re doing things, circumstances force you to. For John Vanderslice it...

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  M. Ward

  El Mocambo, Toronto ON — February 27, 2005

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

  Something in the heavens was properly aligned on Oscar night, because it brought M. Ward — a perfect antidote to the televised parade of va...

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  Microphones / Sea Snakes

  The Music Gallery, Toronto ON - September 6, 2004

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  A Microphones show has the capacity to be either a religious experience or a train wreck, but the signs all pointed toward revelation as de...

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  Merge 15th Anniversary

  Cat's Cradle, Carrboro NC - July 28 to Aug 1, 2004

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  Wandering through the Cat's Cradle during this five-day love-in, you might have seen an unassuming but strangely familiar couple hovering b...

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  Kids These Days

  All These Interruptions

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  It’s counterintuitive for a group of people, even creative people, to turn down the notion of a leader when it comes to making art. That’s...

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  Fake Cops

  Absolutely Your Credit Is Excellent But In A Certain Way We Also Need Cash

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

  A young band that forgot to wipe their mouths after digesting their influences, Fake Cops writhe around somewhere on the continuum between...