Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
Posted on February 14th, 2012 in Music
Valentine’s Day special: My top 10 love songs. Love songs, nothing but love songs, the old radio ads used to promise. I never listened to that station, I was too busy dyeing a platinum streak in my jet black hair and finding the perfect old man’s raincoat to skulk around Long Island in. But I’ve [...]
Just pulled this from my LP shelf. Filed under Houston and there between Mars Needs Guitars by Hoodoo Gurus and Don’t Stop by Billy Idol. For 80s kids like me, her perfecto pop singles knocked down the snob walls and got in there with my W-LIR new wave: like Madonna and Michael. This one still [...]
Some people who read this blog are surprised that I am a fan of professional sports: Yankees (not Mets), Giants (not Jets), Knicks (not Nets). It’s both a civic pride thing and something I figured a real writer has to embrace because of all that great sports writing… Gay Talese, Mailer, etc. I suppose I [...]
Posted on January 25th, 2012 in Music
Excerpt: In which an Andrew W.K. related news bite on Pitchfork becomes a Proust cookie, taking me back to the days of print rock gossip, my first gray hair, and a reckoning with the end of the teenage dream (whatever happened to the teenage dream anyway?). There was a time when I wrote a MONTHLY [...]
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