Jon Langmead

Features

Music

Across the Great Divides One Last Time: An Interview with the Mendoza Line

[20.Dec.07] :. Timothy Braces gives the story behind the band's literal break-up album.

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Music

Just Making Records: An Interview with Portastatic

[13.Oct.06] :. Mac McCaughan creates string charts and listens to tropicalia while running Merge Records, and he doesn't mind if you haven't listened to Superchunk.

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Reviews

Events

Ray Davies

[29.Apr.08] :. A master songwriter and relentless showman, Davies has always had a knack for the chord change or lyrical turn that can snap you back into focus and cause you to rearrange your life.

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Books

The Vixen Diaries by Karrine Steffans

[25.Mar.08] :. A masterwork in its complete lack of subtext and irony.

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Books

Silent Pictures by Pat Graham

[11.Feb.08] :. Having come of an age in a scene known best remembered for howling guitars played in basement shows, Graham's work pays testament to those bands.

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DVDs

Seinfeld: Season 9

[29.Jan.08] :. Seinfeld clearly struggled after Larry David's departure, trying to re-find its way back to a show about nothing.

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DVDs

Charmed: The Final Season: (Season 8)

[4.Dec.07] :. In its final season Charmed, which had consistently wrung life out of otherwise mundane material, lost sight of exactly what it was that kept the moving parts interesting.

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DVDs   Bruce Springsteen: Under Review-1978-82: Tale of the Working Man [DVD]

Books   Wrestling Babylon by Irvin Muchnick

DVDs   Nirvana: Nirvana - In Utero, A Classic Album Under Review [DVD]

DVDs    The Velvet Underground: Velvet Redux: Live MCMXCIII [DVD]

Books   The Rough Guide Book of Playlists by Mark Ellingham

Music   Various: Doo Wop: Vocal Group Greats

DVDs    Lou Reed: Live at Montreux 2000 [DVD]

Music    Buddy Holly: Gold

Music    Nada Surf: The Weight Is a Gift

DVDs    The Pretenders: The Pretenders Greatest Hits [DVD]

Music    Badfinger: Live: Day After Day

Music    The National: Alligator

DVDs    Low: In Europe [DVD]

Music    I Am Kloot: self-titled

Music    The Gin Blossoms: The Best of Gin Blossoms (20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection)

Music    Moonbabies: The Orange Billboard

DVDs    KISS: 20th Century Masters: The Best of KISS: The DVD Collection [DVD]

Music    Yo La Tengo: Today Is the Day

Music    Lionel Richie: The Best of Lionel Richie (20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection)

Music    Everything But the Girl: Amplified Heart

Music    The Joggers: Solid Guild

Music    The Autumn Defense: Circles

Music    Trembling Blue Stars: A Certain Evening Light

Music    Consonant: Love and Affliction

Music    The New Amsterdams: Worse for the Wear

Music    Various Artists: The Roots of Doo Wop

Music    Nineteen Forty-Five: I Saw a Bright Light

Music    Sally Crewe and the Sudden Moves: Drive It Like You Stole It

Music    Clem Snide: Soft Spot

Music    Ambulance Ltd.: self-titled

Music    John Mellencamp: Trouble No More

Music    Mondo Topless: Go Fast!

Music    Soltero: Defrocked and Kicking the Habit

Music    Townes Van Zandt: In the Beginning