Music Feature Archive

  • Before they composed the soundtracks to such varied films as Sorcerer, Thief, Risky Business, and Legend, Tangerine Dream were a bunch of long-haired machine heads from Germany, fiddling obsessively with towers of […]

    Space Drones

    Before they composed the soundtracks to such varied films as Sorcerer, Thief, Risky Business, and Legend, Tangerine Dream were a bunch of long-haired machine heads from Germany, fiddling obsessively with towers of […]

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  • David Bowie’s death hit me hard. I did not cry. I didn’t put my life on hold, to better cope with the shock. And it was shocking, make no mistake. […]

    David Bowie

    David Bowie’s death hit me hard. I did not cry. I didn’t put my life on hold, to better cope with the shock. And it was shocking, make no mistake. […]

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  • Alice Cooper: glam guignol Bowie: space glam Cockney Rebel: pub glam Jobriath: show-glam Kiss: arena glam Lou Reed: Warhol glam Mott the Hoople: Dylan glam New York Dolls: subway glam Queen: […]

    The Dictionary of Glam Rock

    Alice Cooper: glam guignol Bowie: space glam Cockney Rebel: pub glam Jobriath: show-glam Kiss: arena glam Lou Reed: Warhol glam Mott the Hoople: Dylan glam New York Dolls: subway glam Queen: […]

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  • I like Giorgio Moroder’s music, because he is (among other things) the king of cheese-synthesizer funk.*  Air, Daft Punk, and Todd Terje owe much of their sound to him.  When he […]

    Giorgio Moroder

    I like Giorgio Moroder’s music, because he is (among other things) the king of cheese-synthesizer funk.*  Air, Daft Punk, and Todd Terje owe much of their sound to him.  When he […]

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  • Any Beatles obsessive will want to read You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup. I would not say this is a particularly illuminating read.  Nor would I […]

    You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup

    Any Beatles obsessive will want to read You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup. I would not say this is a particularly illuminating read.  Nor would I […]

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  • Wonder Girl (1971) Fletcher Honorama (1971)  Slowboat (1971) Do-Re-Mi (1972) Girl From Germany (1972) No More Mr. Nice Guys (1972) Nothing is Sacred (1972) Whippings and Apologies (1972) Talent is an Asset (1974) Achoo (1974) Hospitality […]

    Sparks: 30 Favorites

    Wonder Girl (1971) Fletcher Honorama (1971)  Slowboat (1971) Do-Re-Mi (1972) Girl From Germany (1972) No More Mr. Nice Guys (1972) Nothing is Sacred (1972) Whippings and Apologies (1972) Talent is an Asset (1974) Achoo (1974) Hospitality […]

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  • It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (1965) Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence (1965) Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Live 1966) Tiny Montgomery (1967/1975) Drifter’s Escape […]

    Bob Dylan: 20 Favorites

    It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (1965) Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence (1965) Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Live 1966) Tiny Montgomery (1967/1975) Drifter’s Escape […]

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  •                         “I Wanna Be Your Lover” (1979) “Dirty Mind” (1980) “When You Were Mine” (1980) “Do Me, Baby” (1981) […]

    Prince (1979-1992): 20 Favorites

                            “I Wanna Be Your Lover” (1979) “Dirty Mind” (1980) “When You Were Mine” (1980) “Do Me, Baby” (1981) […]

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  • Albums 1. Franz Ferdinand (2004): Fun, fey, formidable, and just a tad forbidding. Great rock & roll, and a really strong collection of songs. In Rainbows (Radiohead, 2007): Past their […]

    The Best Music Of The 2000s: Jack

    Albums 1. Franz Ferdinand (2004): Fun, fey, formidable, and just a tad forbidding. Great rock & roll, and a really strong collection of songs. In Rainbows (Radiohead, 2007): Past their […]

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  • A roundup. Pavement Pavement is a prefab cult band. Because the music is verbose and deliberately throwaway, it’s model college rock. As slacker-dandies given to lo-fi snobbery, they’re clever. I […]

    My College Rock

    A roundup. Pavement Pavement is a prefab cult band. Because the music is verbose and deliberately throwaway, it’s model college rock. As slacker-dandies given to lo-fi snobbery, they’re clever. I […]

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