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One girl. Many records.
Month: April, 2012
April 26, 2012
Tuesday Plans: What Could Be Better Than a Classic Documentary About Punk?
Iggy Pop & Debbie Harry
For New Yorkers interested in punk, the Anthology Film Archives is hosting a special screening of Clinton Heylin’s “From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock” on Tuesday, May 8th.
April 19, 2012
In Memoriam…
Levon Helm, 1940-2012
April 18, 2012
Crate Digging #6 – Girlie Sounds: Sex, Race and Phil Spector
The Ronettes, early 1960s
When I initially contemplated this series, I began with the intention of exploring areas of the music world I felt merited reexamination. Occasionally, this means that I choose to focus on genres and artists that have been overlooked in their significance (Twee Pop, Black Flag, New Jersey’s musical legacy) and other times, this means that I try and advocate on behalf of artists I feel have been unjustly maligned or inaccurately judged, as I did with the Grateful Dead. Rarely, and most difficultly, those two strains intersect to create a genre/artist that feels both critically under-appreciated and unfairly appraised as insignificant fluff. Such is the case with the Girl Groups of the 1950s and 1960s. Read the rest of this entry »
April 17, 2012
Just Because…
Courtney Love, early ’90s
April 12, 2012
Things to Read…
Van Dyke Parks
