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All Apologies
Nirvana's box set takes the best band of the '90s and reveals the very worst
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: December 1, 2004
Nirvana With the Lights Out Geffen The primary thing you will learn from Nirvana's three-CD, one-DVD, rag-and-bone banquet With the Lights Out (Geffen) isn't that...
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CD Review
Burnt Sugar: Black Sex Yall Liberation & Bloody Random Violets
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: December 1, 2004
Burnt Sugar Black Sex Yall Liberation& Bloody Random Violets Trugroid Yes, you read that title right: Black Sex Yall Liberation & Bloody Random Violets, no comma, no...
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CD Review
Reviews of new CDs by Ada, Ellen Allien, and Ricardo Villalobos
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: November 17, 2004
Ada Blondie Areal Ellen Allien My Parade: DJ Mix by Ellen Allien Bpitch Control Ricardo Villalobos Thé Au Harem D'Archimède Perlon So you're in your...
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CD Review
Talking Heads: The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: August 25, 2004
Talking Heads The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads Sire/Rhino In 1982, Sire released The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads, a live double album that existed primarily...
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Music
Building Nothing out of Something
Sonic Youth's new album: Another brick in the wall of sound
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: July 28, 2004
Sonic Youth never saved rock, and that's the best thing that never happened to them. In the early '80s, no one outside of New York's Lower East Side cared much about the band....
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CD Review
various artists: Marmalade and various artists: Grime
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: June 9, 2004
various artists Greensleeves Rhythm Album #50: Marmalade Greensleeves various artists Grime Rephlex The version is the lingua franca of all dance music. To "version,"...
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Books
You Can Get Off On The Music
Disco tales of the $3,000 record needle and the Donna Summer cake
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: March 31, 2004
What if Hamlet weren't the story of a preening prince, but of a gravedigger who talks to skulls? Or, even better, what if disco had more to do with the record-needle...
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Music
Barred For Life
The Hold Steady's high-voltage crunch happens to sound great in bars. But please don't call them a bar band.
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: March 10, 2004
Craig Finn is full of shit. Last June, after the late, great hometown post-punks Lifter Puller reunited at the Triple Rock, I wandered around the venue and passed Finn, the...
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CD Review
Junior Boys: Birthday
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: March 3, 2004
Junior Boys Birthday Kin import Junior Boys High Come Down Kin import IDM, the "intelligent dance music" spawn of Aphex Twin and his disciples, is embracing the...
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CD Review
various artists: Goodbye, Babylon
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: January 28, 2004
various artists Goodbye, Babylon Dust-to-Digital Harry Smith, Harry Smith, Harry Smith. There, did I get him out of the way yet? Aw hell, I didn't--too bad. Because in its...
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Music
Boys on Film
The Cinematic Orchestra bring their blue note funk to the silver screen
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: June 25, 2003
Whatever genre they ply their trade in, most Miles Davis fans aspire to the more salubrious aspects of his celebrity (i.e., not the drug problem): The restless creativity, the...
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CD Review
Yo La Tengo: Summer Sun
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: April 30, 2003
Yo La Tengo Summer Sun Matador When it's said that a band reduces everything to a yawn, the line is usually meant to pock their integrity. But when the band is Yo La...
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Music
Morning Glory
Dancing till the break of dawn with Röyksopp's 'Melody A.M.'
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: March 12, 2003
Over the past five years, the main avenue of exposure for dance music artists hasn't been club play or (ha ha ha) radio. It's been television ads. Think of Dirty Vegas's "Days...
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CD Review
Triple R: Friends
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: January 22, 2003
Triple R Friends Kompakt The play between tension and release defines much of the music I love. But with microhouse, those binary categories are flouted: The best of the...
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Music
American Idol
'Rolling Thunder Revue' examines the mystique of Bob Dylan
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: December 4, 2002
Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 Columbia/Legacy Certain rock myths come tainted with the scent of incredibility. Read a few British music magazines and you'll hear...
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CD Review
Various Artists: Total 4, Ellen Allien: Weiss.Mix
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: December 4, 2002
Various Artists Total 4 Kompakt Ellen Allien Weiss.Mix Bpitchcontrol Here's a ready-made compare/contrast. Total 4 (the latest compilation from Cologne, Germany...
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CD Review
Missy Elliott: Under Construction
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: December 4, 2002
Missy Elliott Under Construction Elektra Missy Elliott may project herself as a dynamo, but she's less a superhuman than an ideal older sister or best friend--someone who...
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Music
Tomb Raiders
Sifting through the bones of an infamous Halloween rave bust
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: October 30, 2002
Amid the corporate accounting scandals and a pitched national defense debate, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Delaware) found the time on June 18 to introduce his own vital bill to...
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CD Review
Various Artists: Boom Selection_Issue 01
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: October 23, 2002
Various Artists Boom Selection_Issue 01 Boom Selection import How can you parse a monument like Boom Selection_Issue 01? Don't be silly: You can't. So here are the basics....
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Music
Brixton Is Burning
The laddish Brit-Hop of the Streets heats up England's clubland
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: October 16, 2002
The Streets Original Pirate Material Vice/Atlantic Chico Marx once asked, "Why a duck?" and ensured himself immortality. So let me ask: "What's a Duck?" The source of my...
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