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Cavestomp (Sonics! wow!) live review! / New Big Takeover #61 (New Pornographers cover) Began Shipping!; Order/Subscribe/Renew/Perfect Holiday Gift! by Jack Rabid

1 December 2007

Big Takeover #61 with THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS’ A.C. NEWMAN began shipping last week; Again, now is an excellent time to order it if you would like to receive it! / Sonics: ”’He’s Waiting’ is the opener. There’s the voice; how is it so nearly the same?”

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NY Times Music Critic Ben Ratliff

The Current Comeback Tour Trend: Not Reunions, Not Reinventions (Not Addressing the Issue.) by Ari Abramowitz

15 May 2007

Of course the beauty of music is in the listener’s reaction to how it sounds. Why is this stated like a revelation? Is this also part of the super-saturation of image marketing, identity-politics, fashionable rebellion, and Marxist signifiers?

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Interview with me at Rocksellout.com; Pete Townshend/Rachel Fuller live review by Jack Rabid

18 January 2007

First, though I haven’t posted here in two weeks, that doesn’t mean I haven’t been heard from on the net. No! Perish the thought! Actually, a reasonably lengthy interview with me has been posted in the interim at Rocksellout.com / ...”Tonight, Townshend limited himself to three songs, but gave fans a treat by dusting off Quadrophenia’s ‘Drowned.’”

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Death of an Idol (Billy) by Kristen Sollee

15 December 2006

After the recent release of Happy Holidays: A Very Special Christmas Album, I have come to realize that the Billy Idol I once knew and loved is dead.

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To List or Not To List: Must Music and Musicians Be Ranked? by mhemingway

18 July 2006

I’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.

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Art Would Go On Better if the Search for Celine Dion Sank by Ari Abramowitz

15 June 2006

Wilson’s book on Celine could potentially cut that endless circle of generation after generation chasing the power of the generation before them. But only if he realizes that he can dislike Celine and not be racist/sexist/classist/rockist at the same time.

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Boston's "More Than a Feeling": It Ain't No Guilty Pleasure by John Davidson

9 June 2006

With the re-release/remastering of Boston this month, it’s time to examine the soft bigotry of low expectations in music, and how the conflict between critical mass and populist embrace has never been more pointless.

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