Issue Ten …

Issue Nine …

  • Marduk
    Eeeeee-vil
    BY Phil Freeman

  • Brian Wilson
    Surf Pagan
    BY Andrew Hickey

  • Peace, Lowe and Understanding
    The Music of Nick Lowe
    BY Greg T. Hough

Issue Eight …

  • The Community of Now
    In C
    BY STEVE HICKEN

  • Orphans
    Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
    BY Jon Morris

  • The Sincerest Cynic
    Randy Newman, great American songwriter?
    BY Leonard Pierce

Issue Seven …

  • Blue Gaze
    Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire
    BY STEVE HICKEN

  • Rock and the Pop Narcotic
    an interview with Joe Carducci
    BY Andrew Katsikas

  • Bonnarude
    the curmudgeonly guide to the largest grossing independent festival in the U.S.A.
    BY ANDY WILSON

  • The Man-Machine Will Rock You
    the existential paradox of technical death metal
    BY PHIL FREEMAN

Issue Six …

  • Out of Time
    Olivier Messiaen’s Quatour pour la fin du temps
    BY STEVE HICKEN

  • Lessons on the Ecstasy of the Moment
    Notes, Thoughts, and Observations on Morton Feldman and His Rothko Chapel
    BY JEFFREY LETTERLY

  • Sing Me a Song to Set Me Free
    Belle & Sebastian’s Rock Problem
    BY LEONARD PIERCE

  • We Have the Technology
    Thoughts on Laurie Anderson’s “O Superman”
    BY MICHAEL TOMCZYNSZYN

  • Welcome to Zitherland
    In Search of Ruth Welcome
    BY JEFFREY LETTERLY

Issue Five …

  • Tacet
    John's Cage place at the end of the century
    BY STEVE HICKEN

  • John Peel
    A fan's notes
    BY JIM EATON-TERRY

    Unlocking the Fragments
    Captain Beefheart's Kandy Korn
    BY WILLIAM CRAIN

  • Short Reviews
    Jonathan Richman, Rick Nelson, and Oscar Brown, Jr.
    BY WILLIAM CRAIN

  • Holy Poledo or Redon Redux
    Dinosaur Jr. brings the revelatory
    BY MICHAEL TOMCZYSZYN

  • No Bolts From The Blueberry
    Grasping at the meaning of the Fiery Furnaces' Blueberry Boat
    BY HAYDEN CHILDS

Issue Four …

  • Music to Nap By
    Blonde Redhead’s Misery Is a Butterfly
    BY ALLISON BYRNES

  • Jagged, Sustained and Honking
    Basic (aural) training with Lee Hyla
    BY STEVE HICKEN

  • Bozos, Boogies, Beaners, Zips and Berserkers
    The four or five funny guys of the Firesign Theatre
    BY LEONARD PIERCE

  • Point of Reckoning
    The dreamscapes of R.E.M.’s best album
    BY MICHAEL TOMCZYSZYN

  • The Tale of the Tape
    Lessons from a cassette collection
    BY ANDY WILSON

  • The Minutemen: Put It In Simple Words
    Working men are pissed.
    BY LEONARD PIERCE

Issue Three …

  • Words & Music: Stephen Clair
    Little Radio and “My Understanding”
    By Phil Nugent

  • Jo Jo Redux
    The Modern Lovers at 32
    By Gary Mairs

  • Legends That Almost Were
    The Slow Bar and the Bis-Quits
    By Andy Wilson

  • Kings of This Island Town
    Fountains of Wayne
    By Greg T. Hough

  • Clumsy Lovers: After the Flood
    This is what Dave Matthews wishes he sounded like
    By Adam Lipscomb and Julie Wood

  • The Man Comes Around
    Saying goodbye to Johnny Cash
    By Jean Carter Wilson

  • The Two Best Albums of 1993
    The Afghan Whigs’ Gentlemen and American Music Club’s Mercury reconsidered
    By BreNt Bozman

  • 20th Century Music 101, Part II
    What we talk about when we talk about music
    By Steve Hicken

Issue Two …

  • 20th Century Essentials
    The last half of the century was beset by intensive “style wars” wherein critics and composers wed to one style or another attempted to marginalize the supporters and practitioners of other styles — to silence them.
    by Steve Hicken
  • The New Heavy
    This is why a band like Korn, whose guitar and bass strings are practically falling off, are not Heavy. They create a static throb, like some sort of large machine, and after about five minutes the sound is intolerable-listening to one of their albums is like working in a metal shop.
    by Phil Freeman
  • How MP3s Made A Music Fan Out Of Me
    I blame They Might Be Giants. And of course there’s the little matter of Apple’s culpability for the iPod to take into account.
    by Erin McKean
  • You Think You Really Know Me: An Interview with Gary Wilson
    To my surprise, John Cage invited me to his house, and we went over my scores. I went to his house for three days. I was only 14 years old.
    by Brent Bozman
    Richard Thomspon: More Guitar
    It’s become something of a ritual for critics to start their reviews of Richard Thompson’s work by scratching their heads over why he is not a household name on a rank with John Lennon or Neil Young.
    by Chris Roberson
  • Planting Together: An Interview with Iron & Wine
    It’s pretty easy to strip the music down. In fact, we sometimes strip them down more than what’s on the record.
    by Maud Newton
  • Sadism and Perversity At Work
    Miles Davis In Person Friday And Saturday Nights At The Blackhawk, Complete
    by Phil Freeman
  • Brothers In Arms
    Reissues from The Blasters and Rank & File
    by Phil Nugent
  • Does It Help When You Close Your Eyes?: An Interview with Jean Smith of Mecca Normal
    Getting older as an artist is different than other ways of going through life. I have not been worn down by the world; I feel my best work is ahead of me.
    by Leonard Pierce


Issue One …

  • On Singing, Leeds, and Tater Tots: An Interview With Sally Timms
    “I was always a big Yoko Ono fan, so I think there's a closet avant-gardeist trying to get out but not succeeding very well.”
    By Leonard Pierce

  • Mission: Ambition
    On Southern Rock Opera and 69 Love Songs
    by Gary Mairs

  • Radical Reinterpretation of the Text
    Unusual Cover Songs You’ve Probably Never Heard (But Should)
    by Mark Williamson

  • Sifting Through the Pebbles
    “Pebbles is an undiluted romp through the murk of one-single wonders long forgotten outside of the rarified world of record collectors.”
    by Brent Bozman

  • The Golden Age of Hip-Hop Is Now
    “Everybody wants their own golden age. The problem is you never know it when you see it.”
    by Leonard Pierce

  • Short Reviews
    Mickey Baker, Orville Couch, Kenny Brown, Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban, and The American Song-Poem Anthology
    by Matt Baab