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Respect Due: Crowded House
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About two summers ago, I found myself in a place where if you’d have told me a year before that I’d be there, I’d have laughed in your face. Where was this place? At a Crowded House concert being held at a masonic temple in New York City. My disbelief wouldn’t have resulted from the location of the event, and it certainly wouldn’t have been because I dislike Crowded House. Quite the contrary, the New […]
Who Stole Thievery?
Who Stole Thievery?
No one doesn’t like Thievery Corporation. They’re funky, they’re groovy, they’re just plain cool. They flip basslines to the sitar, they trade the traditional drumset for bongos and wood blocks, and their sexy lounge rhythms could form the soundtrack of a jewel heist movie. They’re on my “top ten favorite bands of all time” list.
It’s a sweet moment when you find out that a group you absolutely love is playing in your town. […]
FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #27: Sleepy Doctors
LAURIE ANDERSON “O Superman (For Massenet)” b/w “Walk The Dog” (Warner Bros. Special Products #49876, 1981)
On the rare occasions big publications canonize women in rock, Laurie Anderson usually gets stuffed down near the 100 mark, if not left off completely. This is because few rock listeners were ever really able to understand where she was coming from (be it the pop world, the art world, or the pop art world), and understandably so. It’s far easier […]