Everyone fantasizes about being friends with a pop star sometimes. That’s why Britney remains so popular with young girls; minus…
With drum-and-bass growing stale, Ming and FS tackle songwriting.
The gospel according to Bob Dylan.
It makes me sick just to look at it, the hateful little black thing. It stares up at me from…
After four albums, Toshi Reagon wins converts beyond her peers.
If life imitated ’70s disaster movies ࠬa The Towering Inferno, what role would you play? (Don’t scoff—with the passage of…
Local indie-punk duo Sick Bees finds sweetness in dissonance.
AS WE SAT DOWN to dinner this Thanksgiving, our hostess asked the guests to go around and acknowledge a few…
The first time I came across Kris Kristofferson—in both senses of the word—was in a 1976 issue of Playboy. Gay…
For Christmas 1979, one of my cousins gave me Molly Hatchet’s Flirtin’ With Disaster. At the time, this was a…
Kasey Chambers makes beautiful music with the sorrow of the world.
You know Christmas is imminent when you check your e-mail and find a message bearing the subject “Martha’s To Do…
My ex-boyfriend used to tell a childhood story. One night as he and his brothers were watching The Carol Burnett…
CHAMELEONS UK THE LONG WINTERS, SPYGLASS Showbox, 206-628-3151, $15 adv. 9 p.m. Tues., Oct. 15 THE CHAMELEONS UK can still…
It is depressing to feel like you’ve accomplished less in life than someone named Roxy. Roxy is not a moniker…
BEFORE I EVER heard them, I hated the Human League. Not because I thought the ascendance of synthesizers and dance…
Giving the gift of naughtiness.
“I like to think of myself as a regular guy,” says Chris Isaak in the promotional materials for Showtime’s The…
In show business, who you know is just as important as talent and dedication. It’s hard enough to be objective…
When Henry Rollins speaks, I listen. So when I got an e-mail recently concerning the forthcoming Black Flag tribute, Rise…
