Music lovers unite! We need to smoke ’em out, get ’em on the run, and bring ’em to justice! Stealing…
1956what are the TWO PRINCIPLES of urgent note for White America? Elvis. The terrible Commies. Slam them 2-gether in ’03:…
Jolene Flebb of Woodway writes: “Your recent walk down Band Name Lane was a wonderful, terrific, and educating experience—you should…
To celebrate the sesquicentennial of the promotion to captain of AMERICA’S GREATEST TERRORIST, William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891), Bruce Springsteen will…
Cool retro!!! First there was “Let’s Spend the Night Together”: baba daba, bop bop a daba . . . work…
Starting this week, everything will begin with N. Dirt will begin with N. Radishes will begin with N. Ontology will…
Four second cousins from culture hotbed West Islip, N.Y.—birthplace of Waylon Jennings, Isaac Hayes, and the Fabulous Moolah—World 7 take…
Nina Paranolt of Bellevue writes: “Dear Meltzer—Please help! This is important. “Back in April, high on acid, I gouged somebody’s…
Name Withheld of Renton writes: “Recently, quite by accident, I came upon samples of your writing at the Addicted to…
Moby Dick by Henry Rollins. Call me Ishmael. Manhattan before Woody, Rudy, and 9/11. Rock, rock, Rockaway Beach. Queequeg, my…
I’ve got four things already wrong with me: a backache, an infected ingrown toenail, a cold sore (no, not herpes!),…
The only seminal music theorist to perish in the World Trade Center tragedy, Steamort Sutz, was recently awarded the prestigious…
Walter Battfatt of Bremerton writes: “It’s always fun to learn that a famous and successful band, known the world over,…
The Yardbirds are touring with two original members, you say? Commerce and vanity ‘re funny! If the Stones were suddenly…
And Then the Crowd Showed Up by Tobin Sprout. What a beautiful, brilliant, flimsy little song. The perfect mix of…
It carry always could you guess I well. Steer couldn’t you then and hood the on out sit hafta would…
On Friday, March 14, the Oslo finch, the three-toed Canadian titmouse, the rainbow potato fish (from Bora Bora), Randolph’s euglena,…
When my Uncle Laszlo’s will was finally read last week, I became the proud recipient of his collection of classic…
Names are kind of a big, big deal, y’know?—especially for kids. My idiot folks named me Dickie, for inst. D’you…
Richard Grossman: “It all falls together. And that’s I think when it becomes dangerous—when you start leaving your factional camps…
November 18-24 is National Fuck Awareness Week. What is your F.Q. (Fuck Quotient)? You owe it to yourself to be…
For all intents and porpoises, the gigging juggernaut known as the Dark Star Orchestra has but one basic fancy: to…
Shit . . . another week and already SOMEONE IS DEAD. It’s Julius Hemphill, and it’s also Knuckles O’Toole. The…
