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Margaret Schwartz

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

[17.Dec.02] :. I'm pretty sure it's because I have mono. Spending all this time horizontal, having to pare my life down to what I can manage to accomplish before I collapse back into bed. If that doesn't get one to...

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Appetite: Pop Culture's Urge to Purge

[25.Sep.02] :. The summer after the seventh grade I used to steal my sister's dubbed copy of Appetite for Destruction and lay out on the lawn with my Walkman turned up all the way. My parents were already...

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Ham and Eggs: On Experimental Film and Foreignness

[17.Jul.02] :. Americans don't like to feel estranged at the movies. The movies are our home turf

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Via Chicago

[20.Mar.02] :. They just quietly took the revolution into their own hands because they wanted to make music as they pleased.

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Can Chuck D Speak? Rap, Race, and Rant

[22.Jan.02] :. . . . (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.

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Reviews

Music

Mark Mallman: Who's Gonna Save You Now?

[16.Jul.03] :. If I had to pick one word to describe Mark Mallman's work, schizophrenic is the one that springs most readily to mind. Even my RealPlayer, that dubious tracker of cultural trends, lists a...

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Future Bible Heroes: The Lonely Robot

[26.Jun.03] :. Last August, Future Bible Heroes released Eternal Youth, a collection of wittily-worded, '80s flashback synth-pop numbers. The Lonely Robot is a seven-song EP of remixes from Eternal...

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Jon Langford & His Sadies: Mayors of the Moon

[16.May.03] :. It is oddly fitting that in this world of fractured genres, one man is called upon to support an entire scene. Welsh-born resident alien Jon Langford, whose band the Mekons helped define what the...

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The Go-Betweens: Bright Yellow Bright Orange

[17.Feb.03] :. I first learned about the Go-Betweens from an article by Jonathan Lehman that ended up in Da Capo's Best Music Writing 2001 called "Not a Go-Betweens Piece". It wasn't anything Lehman said so...

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Foo Fighters: One By One

[29.Nov.02] :. The official take on this latest Foo Fighters release seems to be that Grohl and associates are back to their old school, hard-rockin' selves after the comparatively low key feel of their last album,...

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Music    Luna: Close Cover Before Striking

Music    Dianogah: Millions of Brazilians

Music    Penniless: Anola

Music    The Klezmatics: Jews With Horns / Possessed

Music    Jonathan Richman: Action Packed: The Best of Jonathan Richman

Music   Einstürzende Neubauten: Strategies Against Architecture III: 1991-2001

Music    The Appleseed Cast: Low Level Owl Volume II

Music    Aram: Ghosts in a Season

Music    The Appleseed Cast: Low Level Owl Volume I

Music    Bardo Pond: Dilate

Music    Bertrand Burgalat: The SSSound of MMMusic

Music    John Brodeur: Tigerpop: Songs by John Brodeur

Music    The Bionaut: Lubricate Your Living-Room

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

Music    Casava Experiment: Estranged

Music    Call and Response: self-titled

Music    Elvis Costello: The Very Best of Elvis Costello

Music    Dry Kill Logic: The Darker Side of Nonsense

Music    El Guapo: Geography of Dissolution

Music    Edith Frost: Wonder Wonder

Music    Ghosts and Vodka: Precious Blood

Music    The Gipsy Kings: Somos Gitanos

Music    Hundred Hands: Little Eyes

Music    Ides of Space: There Are No New Clouds

Music    Khan: No Comprendo

Music    Nikolo Kotzev: Nikolo Kotzev's Nostradamus

Music    Lucky 57: Lovely Melancholy

Music    Mogwai: Rock Action

Music    Milagro Saints: Midnight America

Music    The Murder City Devils: Thelema

Music    Mazarin: A Tall Tale Storyline

Music    Mark Mallman and Vermont: self-titled

Music    Graig Markel and Verses on Venus: The Summer Fire EP

Music    Matmos: A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure

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

Music    Dave Olson: #80

Music    Pete Palladino: Sweet Siren of the Reconnected

Music    Quasi: The Sword of God

Music    Quasi: Early Recordings

Music    The Soundtrack of Our Lives: Behind the Music

Music    The Soundtrack of Our Lives: Extended Revelation

Music    Sum 41: All Killer No Filler

Music    Spokane: The Proud Graduates

Music    Strike Anywhere: Change is a Sound

Music    Toulouse: New Points New Lines

 
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