Listening to Tahiti 80 one might think that we don't live in such a troubled world after all.
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Book Review: The Means – A Literary Journal, Issue Two
Whither the literary journal? Can a printed book-magazine hybrid maintain readership in the digital age?
Read More »Theater Review: William Wycherly’s The Country Wife
Horner spreads a rumor that he's become impotent so as to be trusted alone with London's desperate housewives.
Read More »Music Review: Lee “Scratch” Perry – Panic in Babylon
It wasn't the weed that endowed the now clean-living Lee "Scratch" Perry with his genius.
Read More »Music Review: Indie Round-Up for December 28, 2006 – The Best of 2006
Hinder: what is that, a butt?
Read More »Music Review: Indie Round-Up Focus on Fionn Ò Lochlainn – Spawn of the Beast, and live at Joe’s Pub
Celtic soul, singer-songwriter acoustica, and Frampton-esque rock star magnetism fuse in this artist.
Read More »Book Review: Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend by Scott Reynolds Nelson
Few things are more interesting than when folklore and history dovetail.
Read More »Music Review: Indie Round-Up for Nov. 30 2006 – Burden Brothers, Caddle, D’Haene
With stellar songwriting, crisp but heavy production, and roadkill vocals, the Burden Brothers prove that rock can still rock.
Read More »Book Review: All You Need To Know About the Music Business: 6th Edition by Donald S. Passman
Unlike most people I know in the music industry, Passman doesn't think it's broken.
Read More »Music Review: Indie Round-Up for Nov. 16 2006 – Copeland, Wolfkin, Jason Vigil
On first listen it seems self-conscious, as if the band had deliberately set out to make an Important Record.
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