353. Meat Puppets, Mirage (1987) Meat Puppets spent the first chunk of the nineteen-eighties making music almost relentlessly. They churned out recordings with speed and aplomb, then followed those with lengthy tours. About the only think that could slow their … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #353 to #351
A Bronx Upstart. A Logo With a Tilt. Now It’s Everywhere. by Shane Goldmacher I wrote about the inspired messaging of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s inaugural political campaign three years ago, right after her upset victory in the primary set her … Continue reading Outside Reading — One of Us edition
Count me among those who thought Sleater-Kinney’s 2019 album, The Center Won’t Hold, was utterly fantastic. I know the churlish consensus is that the beloved band misstepped in adopting some of the ideas proffered by their famous producer, or perhaps … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Sleater-Kinney, “Worry With You”
Like a Stone, the new album from the Philadelphia band Remember Sports, gave me a beloved sensation that is all too rare for me now. It took me back to my college radio days — both iterations — when a band … Continue reading The New Releases Shelf — Like a Stone
This series of posts is dedicated to the many, many six packs, pony kegs and pints that have sauntered into my life at one point or another. I am lucky enough to have friends who are generous, compelled to share … Continue reading Beers I Have Known — Stiegl Raspberry Radler
When I devoted myself wholeheartedly to the television series St. Elsewhere, I didn’t know that the actor who donned Dr. Daniel Auschlander’s white coat brought practically the whole history of Hollywood with him. I just knew the performance was flinty … Continue reading Norman Lloyd, 1914 – 2021
Sixty-seventh in a series…. Continue reading While Jesus is saving I’m spending all my grace
356. Translator, No Time Like Now (1983) When 415 Records, an independent label based in San Francisco, inked a distribution deal with Columbia Records, Translator was the first act they brought to the newly accessible masses. Heartbeats and Triggers, Translator’s … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #356 to #354
The Girl in the Kent State Photo by Patricia McCormick More than fifty years after the Kent State shootings, Patricia McCormick profiles the girl who was at the center of the most famous photo of the government’s crime against the … Continue reading Outside Reading — This Summer I Heard the Drumming edition
There are few things more insidious than the systemized retribution against survivors of sexual harassment who speak the truth of their experiences. When several women came forward to detail the serial abuse perpetrated by a British musician, he drew upon … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Solidarity Not Silence, “This Is Sisterhood”
