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Delayed News: Help John Stabb – It Could Be You / Rabid punk interviews in October issue of Spin -- Advertise in Big Takeover fall issue!
26 August 2007Five or six teenaged thugs beat him senseless on a Maryland street near his home, causing three facial fractures, two broken bones, and a broken nose which required four-and-a-half hours of surgery to repair, requiring the insertion of five metal plates in his face and braces for his teeth. Ouch. Needless to say, a liquid diet ensued. Please help with his expenses!
To List or Not To List: Must Music and Musicians Be Ranked?
18 July 2006I’m not foursquare against combining lists and music by any means. Making lists is an easy point of reference and arguing music’s relative merits is fun.
Is "Good Vibrations" Liberal or Conservative? Should We Even Care?
30 May 2006The overwhelming number of songs considered to be the greatest of the past 50 years address such issues as freedom of the soul, unlocking the mysteries of the universe, finding meaning, purpose, beauty, identity, connectedness—in essence, humanity.
Finally, Rock & Roll Has Its Very Own Anne Coulter
12 May 2006Yes! Thank you JON FINE for telling me what rock’n’roll is all about.
Uncut, January 2006 (The Smiths cover feature)
12 December 2005The British music mags seem to have this insatiable nostalgic need to commemorate every questionably significant anniversary of certain classic LPs with a 10+ page spread.
Jack Rabid’s Top 10
Week of January 4
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Belle & Sebastian – The BBC Sessions double CD (Matador)
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Subhumans Canada – Death Was Too Kind (Alternative Tentacles)
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Darker My Love -_2_ (Dangerbird)
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Love – Love Story DVD (Sudden Death CAN)
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Ray Davies – Working Man’s Cafe (New West)
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Iggy & the Stooges – Escaped Maniacs (Charly/MVDvisual)
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Ron Sexsmith – Exit Strategy of the Soul (Ronboy/Yep Roc/Redeye)
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T.S.O.L. – The Early Years Live; From the Vaults of Flipside & the Targetvideo77, 1983 (TargetVideo77/Flipside/MVDVisual)
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Magnetic Morning – A.M. (Friend or Faux)
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American Music Club – Atwater afternoon (American Music Club)