The last time I ever felt there was some kind of “rock crit voice” was during the NME era of Nick Kent and Charles Shaar Murray…During that 1973-1977 stretch I read NME avidly (subscribed) and really thought it a well-edited rock mag, no small note considering that I am about the ultimate anti-Anglophile. (Me like Grand Funk, James Gang etc., don’t own a single tune by can’t-rock weenies the Clash and Elvis Costello.)
Full scan of ‘This Is My Document: The Oral History of Cap’n Jazz’ featured in issue #263 of Alternative Press magazine.
ooh that’s fun.
Signing money is another common autograph request. I wonder if they realize that keeping signed money as a souvenir is equivalent to taking the money and throwing it in the trash.
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Arn Anderson, “4 Ever: A Look Behind the Curtain”
Hey, I don’t know how they do it in Peru, but in the USA we don’t take cheap short cuts like asking unpaid journalists to write reviews in exchange for t-shirts and shout-outs. Instead, we pay independent publicity firms to take badly paid journalists out for drinks (in exchange for cutting and pasting one-sheets verbatim).
Somebody needs to write an R-rated ensemble comedy that reprises all the subjects of Edward Hopper paintings.
I mean, do these people all need to chill-the-fuck-out or what?
[I am only belittling the great artist because lately it occurs to me that I’ve been trying to act like an alienated 1940’s apartment-dweller since I was 9 or 10, as if that was a worthy defensive posture or otherwise “adult.” PART OF THIS is Edward Hopper’s fault.]
Spin: On the 20th anniversary of their iconic 1993 breakthrough, now reissued as an expanded package titled ‘LSXX,’ the Breeders’ definitive lineup reunites and AMANDA PETRUSICH dives in, talking with all the key players and supporters who helped make ‘Last Splash’ one of the most exhilarating albums of the decade. [Link]
i wonder if this article mentions that Last Splash was the album you were most likely to find in a used CD bin in the 90s?
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Compartment Car, Edward Hopper
Somebody needs to write an R-rated ensemble comedy that reprises all the subjects of Edward Hopper paintings.
I mean, do these people all need to chill-the-fuck-out or what?
[I am only belittling the great artist because lately it occurs to me that I’ve been trying to act like an alienated 1940’s apartment-dweller since I was 9 or 10, as if that was a worthy defensive posture or otherwise “adult.” PART OF THIS is Edward Hopper’s fault.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/a4feb383afdefffd3324ee370b5e0896/tumblr_mmvldxju4G1qz6f9yo1_r1_500.jpg)
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grungebook:
Spin: On the 20th anniversary of their iconic 1993 breakthrough, now reissued as an expanded package titled ‘LSXX,’ the Breeders’ definitive lineup reunites and AMANDA PETRUSICH dives in, talking with all the key players and supporters who helped make ‘Last Splash’ one of the most exhilarating albums of the decade. [Link]
i wonder if this article mentions that Last Splash was the album you were most likely to find in a used CD bin in the 90s?
a fun read that ends disappointingly abruptly.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/f6c4390380ca8f46143bda5790f0b9b0/tumblr_mmuqjkoM9U1qctvzro1_r2_500.jpg)
