Margaret Schwartz

Features

South by Southwest on a Shoestring: A Diary

By Margaret Schwartz

Schwartz writes about her odyssey at this year's South By Southwest Festival in the 'Home of Live Music' [Austin, Texas]; the place where 'Music Still Matters.' [19 April 2002]

South by Southwest on a Shoestring: A Diary

By Margaret Schwartz

Schwartz writes about her odyssey at this year's South By Southwest Festival in the 'Home of Live Music' [Austin, Texas]; the place where 'Music Still Matters.'

South by Southwest on a Shoestring: A Diary

By Margaret Schwartz

Schwartz writes about her odyssey at this year's South By Southwest Festival in the 'Home of Live Music' [Austin, Texas]; the place where 'Music Still Matters.'

South by Southwest on a Shoestring: A Diary

By Margaret Schwartz

Schwartz writes about her odyssey at this year's South By Southwest Festival in the 'Home of Live Music' [Austin, Texas]; the place where 'Music Still Matters.'

South by Southwest on a Shoestring: A Diary

By Margaret Schwartz

Schwartz writes about her odyssey at this year's South By Southwest Festival in the 'Home of Live Music' [Austin, Texas]; the place where 'Music Still Matters.'

South by Southwest on a Shoestring: A Diary

By Margaret Schwartz

Schwartz writes about her odyssey at this year's South By Southwest Festival in the 'Home of Live Music' [Austin, Texas]; the place where 'Music Still Matters.'

Best of 2001

By Margaret Schwartz

Columns

You Can’t Take It With You: On Being Young and Middle Aged

By Margaret Schwartz

(more Anecdotal Evidence)

Appetite: Pop Culture’s Urge to Purge

By Margaret Schwartz

(more Anecdotal Evidence)

Ham and Eggs:  On Experimental Film and Foreignness

By Margaret Schwartz

Americans don't like to feel estranged at the movies. The movies are our home turf [17 July 2002]

(more Anecdotal Evidence)

Via Chicago

By Margaret Schwartz

They just quietly took the revolution into their own hands because they wanted to make music as they pleased. [20 March 2002]

(more Anecdotal Evidence)

Can Chuck D Speak? Rap, Race, and Rant

By Margaret Schwartz

. . . (W)hat happened that evening did not happen only to Chuck D or only to his audience, but what happened -- or what was mean to happen -- instead just snapped and slacked and fell in the air between us. [22 January 2002]

(more Anecdotal Evidence)

Real Consequence

By Margaret Schwartz

. [8 October 2001]

(more Anecdotal Evidence)

Reviews

Mark Mallman: Who’s Gonna Save You Now?

By Margaret Schwartz

Future Bible Heroes: The Lonely Robot

By Margaret Schwartz

Jon Langford & His Sadies: Mayors of the Moon

By Margaret Schwartz

The Go-Betweens: Bright Yellow Bright Orange

By Margaret Schwartz

Foo Fighters: One By One

By Margaret Schwartz

Eliades Ochoa: Estoy Como Nunca

By Margaret Schwartz

Luna: Close Cover Before Striking

By Margaret Schwartz

Dianogah: Millions of Brazilians

By Margaret Schwartz

Penniless: Anola

By Margaret Schwartz

The Klezmatics: Jews With Horns / Possessed

By Margaret Schwartz

Jonathan Richman: Action Packed: The Best of Jonathan Richman

By Margaret Schwartz

Einstürzende Neubauten: Strategies Against Architecture III: 1991-2001

By Margaret Schwartz

Berlin’s Einstürzende Neubauten—that’s “Collapsing New Buildings” to the uninitiated—are in many ways an embodiment of a certain stereotype about German art rock.

[22 October 2001]

The Appleseed Cast: Low Level Owl Volume II

By Margaret Schwartz

Ides of Space: There Are No New Clouds

By Margaret Schwartz

Bertrand Burgalat: The SSSound of MMMusic

By Margaret Schwartz

Dave Olson: #80

By Margaret Schwartz

    The Soundtrack of Our Lives: Behind the Music

By Margaret Schwartz

The Gipsy Kings: Somos Gitanos

By Margaret Schwartz

Call and Response: self-titled

By Margaret Schwartz

Even if you're a die-hard Slipknot fan and you can't stand anything with keyboards or women, you'll have to admit that Call and Response make flawless pop.

    Spokane: The Proud Graduates

By Margaret Schwartz

Mazarin: A Tall Tale Storyline

By Margaret Schwartz

The Murder City Devils: Thelema

By Margaret Schwartz

    Quasi: Early Recordings

By Margaret Schwartz

Quasi: The Sword of God

By Margaret Schwartz

Black Cat Music: Hands in the Estuary, Torso in the Lake

By Margaret Schwartz

The Appleseed Cast: Low Level Owl Volume I

By Margaret Schwartz

    Strike Anywhere: Change is a Sound

By Margaret Schwartz

Aram: Ghosts in a Season

By Margaret Schwartz

Ghosts and Vodka: Precious Blood

By Margaret Schwartz

Hundred Hands: Little Eyes

By Margaret Schwartz

Edith Frost: Wonder Wonder

By Margaret Schwartz

    Milagro Saints: Midnight America

By Margaret Schwartz

    Nineteen Forty-Five: Together We’ll Burn Like Autumn Leaves

By Margaret Schwartz

    Graig Markel and Verses on Venus: The Summer Fire EP

By Margaret Schwartz

    Lucky 57: Lovely Melancholy

By Margaret Schwartz

The Bionaut: Lubricate Your Living-Room

By Margaret Schwartz

Dry Kill Logic: The Darker Side of Nonsense

By Margaret Schwartz

    Sum 41: All Killer No Filler

By Margaret Schwartz

    Khan: No Comprendo

By Margaret Schwartz

    Mogwai: Rock Action

By Margaret Schwartz

Elvis Costello: The Very Best of Elvis Costello

By Margaret Schwartz

    Toulouse: New Points New Lines

By Margaret Schwartz

    The Soundtrack of Our Lives: Extended Revelation

By Margaret Schwartz

Pete Palladino: Sweet Siren of the Reconnected

By Margaret Schwartz

    Matmos: A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure

By Margaret Schwartz

    Mark Mallman and Vermont: self-titled

By Margaret Schwartz

    Nikolo Kotzev: Nikolo Kotzev’s Nostradamus

By Margaret Schwartz

El Guapo: Geography of Dissolution

By Margaret Schwartz

Casava Experiment: Estranged

By Margaret Schwartz

John Brodeur: Tigerpop: Songs by John Brodeur

By Margaret Schwartz

Bardo Pond: Dilate

By Margaret Schwartz