Issue Articles
Bear With Us
Bear Family Records is doing the Lord’s work. The German reissue label has decided there are no country, rockabilly or soul artists too minor or obscure not to rerelease in […]
Jack Kerouac and the New Orleans Beat Tradition
With the exception of disco, there may not be a major musical movement in the second half of the Twentieth Century that was not touched by the Beats. Folk? Allen […]
Readin’, Writin’ and Rockin’
When he remembered to put people in his movies, George Lucas directed American Graffiti, the best rock & roll movie ever made. He focused not on musicians, whose stories have […]
Bad Moon Rising
Surviving punk is a tough business. The inflammatory statements that make bands sound revolutionary eventually sell them out. Johnny Rotten said he wanted to be an anarchist, but now, judging […]
The Dolls’ Saga and Death As Art
When critics write the history of punk, they inevitable name the late ’60s and early ’70s forerunners TheVerlvetsStoogesMC5andDolls in one breath, but they were hardly four versions of the same […]
Fest Focus: Irma Thomas
The Lion’s Den could only exist in New Orleans. It’s an unassuming neighborhood bar complete with a television tuned to Judge Judy, a few regulars tuned to their video poker […]
Fest Focus: Los Lobos
Uncertainty can paralyze, but in the case of Los Lobos, it produced a Kiss-like outpouring of solo projects and a Grammy. In 1997, the’ band left Warner Brothers, their label […]
