Name: Kenan Hebert
Articles: 24
First Published: Thursday, August 15, 2002
Last Published: Thursday, December 5, 2002
Currently listing articles 24-1:
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Neal Pollack still hates your pansy ass— ...
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Pete Townshend Reviews Kurt Cobain's Journals— Kenan Hebert on Pete Townshend on Kurt Cobain. Whew!
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Nick Hornby's Top 10— ...
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Neko Case - Blacklisted— Blacklisted is, above all else, a triumph of delicate, late-night moodiness. Case has a long, dark highway in the back of her mind.
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FSOL demos
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The Future Sound of London - The Isness— By trying to make psychedelic music, but neither trying to build on it or even respect its original spirit, The Isness is something more than
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I Am Trying to Break Your Heart— The movie doesn't seem edited for quality of content, just content. As long as someone is saying something nice about Wilco, it goes in.
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Lost Art: The Road Song— The Road was not only a place to travel, but a place to be, and sometimes a place to live. Not incidentally, a lot of
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The most grandiose list ever
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Peter Gabriel gets old— I'm not sure if it's his age or his ivory-tower status, but he comes across as painfully behind the times here.
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Brain Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports— Everyone makes music to be listened to, Eno said. What if I made some music designed specifically not to be listened to?
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New Radiohead
— This is for your own good.
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Ladytron - Light and Magic— They dance along the knife-edge of self-parody and total irrelevance, but they never topple over.
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Yo La Tengo - The Sounds of the Sounds of Science— Art that moves people to make art is the very best kind.
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Beck - Sea Change— This time, there are no ironies, no grins, no knowing winks, and no big beats. This time, he really means it.
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Underworld - A Hundred Days Off— It's not that it's bad. It's just dull.
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Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights— ...
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Sleater-Kinney - One Beat— Sleater-Kinney plays great rock and roll. They are the most awe-inspiring rock band since The Clash.
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Neal Pollack hates your pansy ass— ...
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Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf— Songs for the Deaf is above all workmanlike, an example of craft instead of art.
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How big is the Next Big Thing?— Assuming that rock needs more cock, are these bands really up to the job? After all, size does matter.
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Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
— Track after track meanders on, never finding its center, never exploding into the rock and roll ecstacy that the band always seems capable of, but
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Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
— A heaviness hangs over the album, as well it should, but elsewhere on The Rising, Springsteen offers a possible antidote. He has always believed the
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The Last Temptation of Ziggy Stardust— The central contradiction of rock has always been that it's both real and phony, both infallible and fallible, the way Jesus is both God and
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