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2001 Stories by M. Gnome

• A sentimental sayonara

  published April 25, 2001

  The Gnome's feeling a bit emotional right now, perhaps because this is the final edition of the Metro Gnome. It's certainly been a... More >>

• Run your mouth at Hattie's, people.

  published April 11, 2001

  It ain't always easy to keep up with the surge of rock shows going on in this town, and sometimes even the impeccable music journalists here at... More >>

• Sold-out shows and the Waterboys.

  published April 4, 2001

  Seeing how everyone in town was either at the sold-out Sit & Spin, the sold-out Showbox, or the sold-out Sky Church, Friday night would've been... More >>

• Mogwai is fucking fantastic; the G-word.

  published March 28, 2001

  Tinnitus alert: If only Steven Jesse Bernstein were alive today! The Seattle writer who demanded menacingly, "More noise,... More >>

• Trouble and Texas

  published March 21, 2001

  The Gnome's stirred up trouble before, but this is getting weird. First it was suggested in this column that fellow Bay Area mope rockers... More >>

• Real live touring bands, oh my.

  published March 14, 2001

  Ah, what a time. The first hints of spring hang in the air. The ground isn't quaking violently beneath our feet. And the clubs are beginning to... More >>

• The Metro Gnome

  published March 7, 2001

  Looks like the Gnome picked a bad year to live in an underground bunker beneath the Space Needle—talk about a shaky troll! On that note,... More >>

• Eitzel vs. Kozelek; Seattle vs. Portland

  published February 28, 2001

  CPAs Wanted: The Gnome was only joking last week in suggesting that fellow mopey San Francisco songsmiths Mark Eitzel and Mark... More >>

• Has got a reason to don his country duds.

  published February 21, 2001

  Yee-haw! The Gnome's finally got a reason to break out his cowboy hat. Why, you ask? Because he'll need it this Thursday, February 22, when... More >>

• Coldplay parachute into Seattle.

  published February 14, 2001

  We interrupt your regularly scheduled music column for a concert review. The Metro Gnome will return next week. Coldplay,... More >>

• The Metro Gnome

  published February 7, 2001

  How does the Gnome love thee? Let Cupid count the ways. First he split town, leaving you in Cupid's adept, arrow-laden arms, and then he used... More >>

• Bebel, why have you forsaken us?

  published January 31, 2001

  What the hell did we do to piss off Bebel Gilberto? The mercurial Brazilian songstress releases one of 2000's most alluring albums,... More >>

• Moustache madness

  published January 24, 2001

  So what's the deal with the fake mustaches? Is this some sort of trend? First Dallas Good, the lanky, chain-smoking guitarist from... More >>

• Mudhoney at the Off Ramp, OutKast, Quasi, ATDI/MCD antics, whew!

  published January 17, 2001

  Some of you must be salivating over the thought of seeing Mudhoney at Graceland this Saturday, hoping to trigger fuzzy-'n'-warm memories... More >>

• The Metro Gnome

  published January 10, 2001

  As if the first week of the new year weren't tedious enough, religious yahoos saw fit to protest the Marilyn Manson show at the Mercer... More >>

• The Metro Gnome

  published January 3, 2001

  It's been almost nine years since The New York Times misguidedly printed Megan Jasper's "Lexicon of Grunge," a hoax the... More >>