I have never fantasized about vacationing in Hawaii. Thailand and Morocco, yes . . . but Maui? No way. This…
Brooklyn’s Rogers Sisters put the fun back in thoughtful pop.
Martha Stewart has gone too far. I’m not referring to the maniacal degree of detail with which the Doyenne of…
“Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted…
Pop music is political, often in ways listeners never consider. That fact was hammered home last week when a list—allegedly…
I Sing Because of You (Future Farmer Recordings).
Put the blame on the Internet, cheap airfares, or the sexual revolution, but the end result is the same: Earth…
DJ Skribble wrecked my life. OK, I’m exaggerating a little. After all, could somebody called Skribble truly wreck one’s life?…
West Seattle turntablist Dynomite D finds hip-hop beats in the unlikeliest places.
“I ain’t got nothin’ but the blues.” That sentence is open to different interpretations. Certain individuals—like the soft-focus shut-ins of…
In a perfect world, hard-working DJs would never have to contend with undue interference from audience members. But even if…
As anyone who’s watched The Osbournes can attest, rock ‘n’ roll and parenting make cuckoo bedfellows indeed. Yet when I…
Cohabitation equals compromise. That fact finally hit me when my boyfriend and I shacked up together last month. We both…
Mike DuPriest was the man responsible for the happiest moment of my life: seeing Robbie Williams in his underwear. Which…
Sometimes I really hate indie rockers. I want to snatch those ugly Clark Kent glasses off their pasty faces and…
I know squat about Bob Dylan. My musical education has been piecemeal. I discovered the Beatles via a series of…
For weeks, the question has followed me: “Did you see High Fidelity yet?” The last time so many different people…
Reclaiming the DJ from the cult of the MC.
It’s no wonder I’m gay—my mother named me for a character in a musical. Honest. There’s a scene in the…
Mama Cass, Glen Campbell, and Carmen McRae recorded her songs. Spanky and Our Gang scored a Top-40 hit with her…
