Dean Schlabowske/Searching for the Sound
Category: Post No Bills
Electronic Duo Orchestrates Some Changes
Telefon Tel Aviv: Charles Cooper, Joshua Eustis/Strings Attached
Hello Best Buy; Good-bye, Best Friends; Just Can’t Stop Loving Him
Norm Winer/They Showed Him the Money
Best Records of 2003
1.OUTKAST Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (Arista) The most fascinating record of the year was this matched set of solo albums by Outkast’s Big Boi and Andre 3000. Both are obsessed with […]
Little Indies That Could
Flameshovel: Jesse Woghin, James Kenler/Brilliante: Chris Strong, Ed Menacho, Joe Wigdahl
Local Record Roundup
JOSH ABRAMS Cipher (Delmark) The quartet on Cipher first got together for a one-off gig at Lula Cafe in early 2000, and bassist Josh Abrams (a founding member of rustic […]
Music Book Roundup
Each of the following recently released music books is informative and entertaining by turns, but only the first is an unqualified success. STOMP AND SWERVE: AMERICAN MUSIC GETS HOT, 1843-1924 […]
Punk Primer/Postscripts
Punk Primer Though punk as a concept has had a profound impact on popular music, most of its original practitioners have been consigned to the footnotes of rock history. While […]