Subject:

Jim O'Rourke

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    Former Wilco member dead

    After founding Titanic Love Affair, joining Wilco, and releasing a half dozen solo albums, guitarist and producer Jay Bennett died at age 45.

  • Music

    June 14, 2006

    Sonic Youth: Rather Ripped

    After founding Titanic Love Affair, joining Wilco, and releasing a half dozen solo albums, guitarist and producer Jay Bennett died at age 45.

  • Music

    July 28, 2004

    Building Nothing out of Something

    Sonic Youth's new album: Another brick in the wall of sound

  • News

    December 17, 2003

    Local Music Yearbook '03

    We Sang. We Danced. We Set things on Fire. And Sometime after the Bar Closed, We Wrote It All Down for You.

  • Arts

    October 1, 2003

    Bring the Noise

    The Destijl/Freedom From Festival of Music proves there's a world going on underground

  • Arts

    September 18, 2002

    Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun

    Audiences chew on a film-fest twofer: Central Standard's indie films and Sound Unseen's musical movies

  • Music

    August 21, 2002

    Sonic Boom

    Audiences chew on a film-fest twofer: Central Standard's indie films and Sound Unseen's musical movies

  • Music

    August 14, 2002

    Kill Your Idols

    Does Sonic Youth's new album justify calls for their termination?

  • Music

    April 10, 2002

    Ctrl-Alt-Del

    Does Sonic Youth's new album justify calls for their termination?

  • Movies

    November 15, 2000

    Communication Breakdown

    The Japanese Eureka speaks volumes about inexpressiveness

  • Music

    June 7, 2000

    Talk Dirty to Me in Esperanto

    Sonic Youth and Stereolab redefine the intimate grammar of rock, again

  • Music

    April 12, 2000

    Fennesz: Plus Forty Seven Degrees 56'37" / Minus Sixteen Degrees 51'08"

    Sonic Youth and Stereolab redefine the intimate grammar of rock, again

  • Music

    March 8, 2000

    Bummer Crop

    Korn's depressed rap-metal rocks freaks and saves geeks. But are they just yanking your leash?

  • Music

    January 12, 2000

    SY2K

    Sonic Youth's Goodbye 20th Century remembers the auld lang syne of the avant-garde

  • Music

    September 29, 1999

    Lab Culture

    Sonic Youth's Goodbye 20th Century remembers the auld lang syne of the avant-garde

  • Music

    June 2, 1999

    Love the Sin, Hate the Sinner

    Romantic martyrs Joan of Arc sing post-rock hymns to doomed monogamy

  • Music

    April 14, 1999

    Jim O'Rourke: Eureka and Drag City: Smog

    Romantic martyrs Joan of Arc sing post-rock hymns to doomed monogamy

  • Arts

    September 9, 1998

    Bring in the Noise

    From Wrong's free-improv chaos to Savage Aural Hotbed's circle-saw precision, a disparate local noise scene maps the sound of modern anxiety

  • Arts

    September 9, 1998

    Simply Stated

    From Wrong's free-improv chaos to Savage Aural Hotbed's circle-saw precision, a disparate local noise scene maps the sound of modern anxiety

  • Music

    March 25, 1998

    Gastr Del Sol-Camoufleur

    From Wrong's free-improv chaos to Savage Aural Hotbed's circle-saw precision, a disparate local noise scene maps the sound of modern anxiety

  • Music

    December 10, 1997

    Dial Tones

    Bang a Gong: Harry Partch on one of his musical contraptions.

  • Music

    May 14, 1997

    Psychedelic Revival

    Bang a Gong: Harry Partch on one of his musical contraptions.

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