Dear Reader:
I often shy away from the popular, which occasionally means missing out on the great. A surfeit of hype clouds the original and layers it with expectation. However, I have tried to make a habit of tackling literary classics—in spite of the dreary image that this moniker and their popularity promote in […]
1. Psychedelic Horseshit - Both Sides Now
2. Blues Control - Mashpotato
3. Maximum Awesome - German Loser
4. Pink Reason - By A Thread
5. Immortal Technique - The 4th Branch (EXPLICIT LYRICS)
6. Roy Smeck - Steel Guitar Rag
7. Les Reines Prochaines - Opfer Dieses Liedes (Wicked Game)
8. Pascal Comelade - Prime Of Life
9. Christian Clozier - Lettre […]
Los Angeles is known as a city of millions of cars. Things are just too far apart, and public transportation just too slow and sparse, to make it easy *not* to own one. Houston, apparently, has the most cars per household in the country, but we’ve got the worst traffic-related congestion and pollution. […]
I have a confession to make.
Twenty years ago, when I was in the middle of my senior year in high school, I built a shrine to my favorite band, right there in my bedroom. I had concert posters, magazine cut-outs, liner notes, record store promo album covers, handwritten lyrics, all pinned up on the wall […]
As a relatively new New Yorker and Brooklynite, I like to participate in the enjoyable pastime of deploring gentrification. I marvel at how quickly neighborhoods are changing, complain about the Starbucksization of uniquely New York or Brooklyn streets. Gentrification is a much-debated phenomenon in many cities all over the country, but New York has a […]