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The Reading List: Oil and Water, Portishead and the Stooges
We’ve spent most of the last month dealing with Christmas, the February issue and the Best of the Beat. Here’s some of the stuff that landed on my desk that […]
Nothing Pretty
His time in New Orleans was transitional for Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor. In Pretty Hate Machine, Daphne Carr examines not the early days of the band but its impact […]
Marquee Girls? Some Moon?
While New York tries to clean up from Hurricane Irene’s devastation—newspaper boxes almost tipped over!—it seems appropriate to review two New York-centric entries in Continuum Books’ 33 1/3 series: Marquee […]
Where Did I Come From?
In the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, there was a computer terminal that helped trace the influences that led to a given band. Nirvana, it said, was the product […]
Someone Still Loves Albums
At a time when album sales drop yearly, it almost seems quaint that Continuum Books’ 33 1/3 series continues to pay attention to those artifacts of yesteryear. The series continues […]
Work as Play
On the first leg of my vacation flight – New Orleans to Houston – I finished Geeta Dayal’s Another Green World, her entry in Continuum Books’ 33 1/3 series. As […]
Horses & Masters of Reality
I hoped Philip Shaw’s Horses (Continuum)Â would help me get closer to Patti Smith’s debut album. Only “Gloria” and “Land” delivered the wild and dangerous art that her early 1970s press […]
