-
1) Leah Garchik, June 14 (San Francisco Chronicle) Regarding George W. Bush declaring the day of Ronald Reagan's funeral a national holiday, bold-faced names columnist Garchik...
-
1)-2) Eagles of Death Metal, Peace Love Death Metal (AntAcidAudio); Dock Boggs, Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings (1927-29) (Revenant) Featuring a member of Queens of...
-
1) Salon, "Letters," regarding the pending removal of Bob Edwards as host of NPR's Morning Edition (March 30) The bemusement Edwards has for 25 years offered ordinary...
-
1) Mendoza Line, "It's a Long Line (But It Moves Quickly)," on Fortune (Cooking Vinyl) From people hiding in present-day America--just as the Mekons of Fear and Whiskey and...
-
1) Michael Pitt and the Twins of Evil, "Hey Joe," from The Dreamers: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Nettwerk America) This movie about three young people making a whole...
-
1) Electrelane, The Power Out (Too Pure) In 200l these British women released the almost all-instrumental Rock It to the Moon, and you couldn't begin to say what it was. This...
-
1) Mr. Airplane Man, C'mon DJ (Sympathy for the Record Industry) A Boston duo--Margaret Garrett, guitar, Tara McManus, drums and organ--recording in Memphis, then calling out...
-
1) Natalie Merchant, The House Carpenter's Daughter (Myth America, P.O. Box 170, Bellows Falls, VT) The songs are from Fairport Convention, The Anthology of American Folk...
-
1) Johnny Cash with Joe Strummer, "Redemption Song," from Johnny Cash, Unearthed (American/Lost Highway) The title of this five-CD set--four discs of outtakes from the...
-
1) & 2) Brooks & Dunn, "Red Dirt Road" (Arista) and Martina McBride, "Independence Day," (RCA, 1994), on The Bear, 95.7 FM (San Francisco, Oct. 20) As melody,...
-
1) The Fiery Furnaces, Gallowsbird's Park (Rough Trade) Brooklynites Eleanor and Matthew Friedberger offer hilarious sibling-loathing liner notes and songs that seem to come...
-
1) Neva Chonin, "Sex Pistols' Lydon tries, but can't revive rage on reunion tour at Warfield" (San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 5) "What can you say about a 25-year-old legend...
-
1-4) Lady J on KALX-FM (Berkeley, August 18) Mondays 9 to noon is Lady J's shift at the same college station that figures in Jonathan Lethem's new novel, The Fortress of...
-
1) Hem, Rabbit Songs (Dreamworks reissue) From Brooklyn, this set of nihilist love letters--originally released independently in 2001--keeps company with Van Morrison's Astral...
-
1) Patti Smith at Martin Luther King Jr. Park, Berkeley (June 15) Smith and Boots Riley of the Coup were performing in support of International A.N.S.W.E.R., a group affiliated...
-
1) John Mellencamp, Trouble No More (Columbia) Old songs, old singer, fresh sound: Mellencamp turns Dicky Do and the Don'ts' obscure 1959 doo-wop "Teardrops Will Fall" into...
-
1)-10) David Thomas,
"Disastodrome!" (Freud Playhouse,
UCLA, Los Angeles, February 21, 22,
23) It was a version of a
Raymond Chandler mystery, with
tough, cool, and...
-
1) The New Pornographers, "The Laws Have Changed," from Electric Version (Matador) Neko Case pipes in the background like an organ. Then, as a multiple exposure, she's high...
-
1) Nineteen Forty-Five, I Saw a Bright Light (Daemon) The first time you hear this, it might sound ordinary; the third or fourth time it can be shattering. There is the...
-
1) A.R.E. Weapons, A.R.E. Weapons (Rough Trade) New York City, very self-mocking about their street smarts, very anguished about the street, and utterly expert in a way that...
