Music
The melody lingers
A few weeks ago, I was booked to DJ in the ARO.space lounge on a Friday. The promoters…
Music
“Tainted Love” lasts forever
It’s no secret that pop music is highly disposable. Looking back at the ’80s, many hits held up…
Music
The adventures of Sylvester Boy
Sylvester was deeply engrossed, fusing two wires together, when there suddenly came a thunderous banging upon the workshop…
Music
Melissa Lefton
Everyone fantasizes about being friends with a pop star sometimes. That’s why Britney remains so popular with young…
Music
May the Fourth be with you
It makes me sick just to look at it, the hateful little black thing. It stares up at…
Music
Headache!
If life imitated ’70s disaster movies ࠬa The Towering Inferno, what role would you play? (Don’t scoff—with the…
Music
Get Stuffed
AS WE SAT DOWN to dinner this Thanksgiving, our hostess asked the guests to go around and acknowledge…
Music
Me and Kris Kristofferson
The first time I came across Kris Kristofferson—in both senses of the word—was in a 1976 issue of…
Music
The Southern Thing
For Christmas 1979, one of my cousins gave me Molly Hatchet’s Flirtin’ With Disaster. At the time, this…
Music
Can’t catch me
You know Christmas is imminent when you check your e-mail and find a message bearing the subject “Martha’s…
Music
Canned Hamm
My ex-boyfriend used to tell a childhood story. One night as he and his brothers were watching The…
Music
Pleasure and Pain
CHAMELEONS UK THE LONG WINTERS, SPYGLASS Showbox, 206-628-3151, $15 adv. 9 p.m. Tues., Oct. 15 THE CHAMELEONS UK…
Music
See Also: the Woodentops
It is depressing to feel like you’ve accomplished less in life than someone named Roxy. Roxy is not…
Music
League Unlimited
BEFORE I EVER heard them, I hated the Human League. Not because I thought the ascendance of synthesizers…
