Music
Bruce Cockburn
When interviewing musicians, it’s always good to have a casual icebreaker. If the chat is being conducted via…
Music
The Screamers
“You can’t play guitar on a Screamers cover!” That’s what the hipster next to me hollered as Portland…
Music
Why Hawaii?
I have never fantasized about vacationing in Hawaii. Thailand and Morocco, yes . . . but Maui? No…
Music
Mac Daddy
Martha Stewart has gone too far. I’m not referring to the maniacal degree of detail with which the…
Music
A tale: Cage uncaged
“Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being…
Music
Adam Goldstone’s Politics of Dancing
Pop music is political, often in ways listeners never consider. That fact was hammered home last week when…
Music
Six degrees of David Sylvian
Put the blame on the Internet, cheap airfares, or the sexual revolution, but the end result is the…
Music
Skribbled out
DJ Skribble wrecked my life. OK, I’m exaggerating a little. After all, could somebody called Skribble truly wreck…
Music
Precious Moments
“I ain’t got nothin’ but the blues.” That sentence is open to different interpretations. Certain individuals—like the soft-focus…
Arts & Culture
Looking for the Perfect Beat
In a perfect world, hard-working DJs would never have to contend with undue interference from audience members. But…
Music
Papa Was a Supersucker
As anyone who’s watched The Osbournes can attest, rock ‘n’ roll and parenting make cuckoo bedfellows indeed. Yet…
Music
Think Pink
Cohabitation equals compromise. That fact finally hit me when my boyfriend and I shacked up together last month.…
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I can’t believe you’re gone
Mike DuPriest was the man responsible for the happiest moment of my life: seeing Robbie Williams in his…
Music
A picture’s worth a 1,000 miles
Sometimes I really hate indie rockers. I want to snatch those ugly Clark Kent glasses off their pasty…
Music
Paul Kelly
I know squat about Bob Dylan. My musical education has been piecemeal. I discovered the Beatles via a…
Music
Life imitates art
For weeks, the question has followed me: “Did you see High Fidelity yet?” The last time so many…