Possibilities produces a live Zoom version of The Dining Room, but Melody DeRogatis has post-pandemic plans for her company.
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Piecing together the story of midwest punk’s great lost talent
Before he died at 24, Peter Laughner cofounded Rocket From the Tombs and Pere Ubu. Had he lived, he could’ve rivaled Patti Smith or Richard Hell—and a new box set shows why.
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A one-man show about Lester Bangs has no psychotic reactions
How to Be a Rock Critic doesn’t quite capture the greatness of the famous writer and critic’s work.
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 4/23: The Knife, Petty Fest, and Almost Famous
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, April 23
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‘Cause I never dug disco*
Disco Demolition Night: racist? Homophobic? Or just symbolic destruction of a dying genre?
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The Alternative Universe
Milk It! Collected Musings on the Alternative Rock Explosion of the 90’s by Jim DeRogatis (Da Capo) To Jim—Now It’s Your Turn. Best, Lester This brief inscription, scrawled across the inside cover of his quickie bio of Blondie, were Lester Bangs’s parting words to fledgling rock critic Jim DeRogatis. It was mid-April 1982, and the future […]