1985: I Turn Down My Chance to Become a (temporary) Beastie Boy
In the middle of 1985, the Beastie Boys were on the precipice of breaking big. The “Rock Hard” single…
November 3, 2014-
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Scott Walker and Sunn O))): The Future of Rock’n’Roll
Yesterday, we were talking about how we may be entering the Sunset Years of conventional Western Pop. I posited…
October 28, 2014 -
The Myth of Western Pop Supremacy: Prologue to a Scott Walker/Sunn O))) Review
There is a gorgeous arrogance to the idea of Western Pop Music, a truly child-like presumption that our kind…
October 27, 2014 -
Tim’s Favorite Bassists (A GROHL-FREE COLUMN)
Inevitably, after you compose a Best-Of list you remember the one or three or eight names/albums/bands you’ve omitted. But…
October 22, 2014 -
Footnotes to the Prologue of a Manifesto
I have nothing against Dave Grohl. I’m serious. The Foo Fighters are an incendiary live band, Grohl has a…
October 21, 2014 -
Dave Grohl is Killing Rock ‘n’ Roll, Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll: Prologue to a Manifesto
We need a true form of musical activism. We need artists willing to risk everything to expose the cultural atrocities and mammon-driven careerist lies spread by the wheezing rock’n’roll machine.
October 20, 2014 -
October, 1969: The New York Mets Invent Me
Before we believed in Beatles, before we believed in Kinks, before girls made us damp with tears or uselessly…
October 17, 2014 -
We are from the Suburbs. We are Born in the City. DAVE STEIN 1962 – 2014
All good revolutions start in the suburbs, everyone knows that. Do you think cultural change just emerges, whole and…
October 10, 2014 -
Hawkwind and the Hadacol Space-Age Buddy Bolden Dream
Joe Meek’s thumping balls + the Kinks Sacred Riffing + Eddie Cochran’s slippery soul + Krautrock’s endless highway +…
October 9, 2014 -
What Happened to Sid’s Ashes? Let’s Ask John Lydon
A long time ago, I sat behind penny-colored pints of too-cool lager at a reasonable pub in Los Angeles…
October 7, 2014