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Recent Music ColumnsWednesday, October 13 2004Influential Alternative Record Labels: Bloodshot Records and the New TraditionalismLike a latter-day Alan Ladd as Shane, Chicago-based independent label, Bloodshot Records, has taken upon itself the role of savior of the sagebrush, mixing it up in the robber-baron world of corporate Country. (more Alternative Rock Cultures)(more Subversive Rock Humor) Wednesday, September 15 2004G.B.V—R.I.P: For the Love of RockOur newest music columnist pays tribute to dearly departed Guided By Voices and remembers their 20-year career as indie legends. (more Alternative Rock Cultures)(more Subversive Rock Humor) Wednesday, March 19 2003Bigmouth Strikes Again: Eight Mistakes that Music Critics MakeWe rock critics should have leathery skins and sore throbbing eardrums and calloused typing fingers, and we should accept little in return but the possibility of more great new tunes coming our way. (more Pomo Audit) Wednesday, January 15 2003On Fire Like Old Dry GarbageHe was an over-saturated, pungent, weed-choked swamp of words. (more Pomo Audit) Wednesday, November 6 2002Can You Dig It? Yes I Can!This was a band that thrived despite being jeered and pissed on by critics, hipsters, jazzbos, even its own ex-members. (more Pomo Audit) Wednesday, September 18 2002Hello Cruel World: Blogs and Tunes One Year Later. . . (S)houldn't we be celebrating our collective vain, ironical stupidity just to bug that humorless sobersides Osama bin Laden and his fellow fanatics? (more Pomo Audit) Wednesday, August 7 2002A Random Walk Down Pirate StreetIndeed, American book pirates of yesteryear are pretty much the same as Asian tape pirates today. The captains of industry hate 'em, but why else do you think damn near every citizen of Jakarta knows the lyrics to Don McLean's 'American Pie'? (more Pomo Audit) Wednesday, May 22 2002WRECKTHEPLACEFANTASTIC: A Metaphysics of the Mosh PitWhen a mosh pit is right-on, you experience one of the most energetic, crazed, communal forms of dancing ever invented. (more Pomo Audit) Wednesday, May 1 2002Do You Love Me? Three Metal MemoirsNow the worm has turned, and I suspect that the success of 'The Osbournes', Andrew WK, and those gargling perennials Aerosmith will out us all as the closet metalheads we truly are. (more Pomo Audit) Wednesday, March 6 2002Maim That Tune: The Moldy Peaches and the Apotheosis of Lo-FiGood lo-fi bands know that they have an ace tune on their hands when they can stumble drunkenly over it and it still rocks the box. (more Pomo Audit) |
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