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Review: 924 GILMAN THE STORY SO FAR… – BRIAN EDGE
924 GILMAN THE STORY SO FAR… COMPILED BY BRIAN EDGE Maximum Rock N Roll Street: 12.01.04 For me there are very few truly pure musical places in the world today. At the top of my list are Sun Studios in Memphis, CBGB’s in New York, and maybe the purest, 924 Gilman in Berkley. It was
Review: PLEASE FEED ME: A PUNK VEGAN COOKBOOK – NIALL...
PLEASE FEED ME: A PUNK VEGAN COOKBOOK NIALL MCGUIRK Soft Skull Press Street: 11.15.04 This cookbook is just as much a photographic and historical tour of punk in Dublin as it is a collection of delicious vegan recipes. Why punk? As author Niall McGuirk explains, “Together, we would change the world. We saw music as
Review: THE TROUBLE WITH MUSIC – MAT CALLAHAN
THE TROUBLE WITH MUSIC MAT CALLAHAN AK Press Street: 02.01.05 Who better than a seasoned musician to give us a leftist critique of the corrupt corporate music industry? As a rallying cry to independent musicians and freethinkers everywhere, Mat Callahan, guitarist for world-beat combo The Looters, felt it due time for such a diatribe and
Guitar Wolf Eulogy
Guitar Wolf Eulogy (An e-mail from Billy Nord from Narnack Records) It’s with deep and saddest regret to announce this latest news. Last night (3/30) Billy, aka Bass Wolf, passed away of natural causes. He was 38. The band had just returned from their month-long US tour, and fortunately Billy did get to spend
Hunter S. Thompson
Tragic Happenings in This Foul Year of the Cock, 2005 Woody Creek, Colorado, 02/20/05: I turned on the news today and saw that Hunter S. Thompson had died, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. My first reaction was that it couldn’t be true. I thought it must be some kind of publicity stunt; why would
Review: AVANT ROCK: EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC FROM THE BEATLES TO BJÖRK
AVANT ROCK: EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC FROM THE BEATLES TO BJÖRK BILL MARTIN Open Court Publishing Street: 02.01.00 Bill Martin is a bass player and a philosophy professor at DePaul University who examines the “way out” music of the past 50 years and tries to put in theoretical frame-work using the thoughts of intellectual heavies such as
Review: THE WORLD’S EMBRACE: SELECTED POEMS – ABDELLATIF LAABI
THE WORLD’S EMBRACE: SELECTED POEMS ABDELLATIF LAABI City Lights Books Street: 02.01.03 Every once in a while, you encounter an unfortunate soul who tries to sell you on literature’s primary (only to the far right-wingers) purpose—the conveyance of beauty. If said people possess any respect for world literature, they will find Essential Rumi on the Barnes
