Everything is an Afterthought presents a vision of the heyday of rock journalism, times that have long past. The features and reviews by Paul Nelson are longer than anyone would run today—a Warren Zevon profile started as a 67-page typewritten manuscript—and his head-butting with publisher Jann Wenner over the length and nature of reviews led [...]
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Kevin Avery, Everything is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson (Fantagraphics); Conversations with Clint (Continuum)
October 1, 2011 – 12:23 am
Free Big Freedia
April 1, 2011 – 12:01 pm
Here’s a new EP of Big Freedia for download courtesy of Scion A/V. Scion A/V Presents: Big Freedia by ScionAV Big Freedia also got love at RollingStone.com recently, where writer Chuck Eddy considered the local bounce rapper one of the highlights of his SXSW: Probably this writer’s favorite SXSW set: Towering transvestite New Orleans bounce-rapper [...]
Back to the Garden
August 20, 2009 – 4:44 pm
Anyone who grew up in the 1970s or later has had to live with the premise that they missed rock ‘n’ roll’s best days. The Rolling Stone history of music says that the 1960s were a musical and cultural high water mark, and everything since pales by comparison. The iconic moment for that belief is [...]
BeauSoleil: Beau Brothers
February 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
Back in 1986, when BeauSoleil was first starting to tour a lot outside Louisiana, back when the Doucet brothers still had a bit of hair atop their heads, the band played at the Kennedy Center, Washington’s red-carpeted bastion of high culture. BeauSoleil was just a quartet in those days—Michael Doucet on fiddle, David Doucet on [...]
