the mag with the pretty pictures and reviews that deep throat farther then linda lovelace ever had, has gone up 3 bucks and added 20 per cent more ad copy.
i had bought it every month for years, more and more disappointed, but still out of habit, an[…]

Lola was a smart, funny, sexy, tiny art rag from toronto, whose reviews did not run past 150 words, and ran things like the history of urine or art, or a paris art tour from an aging queen using the ballad of lucy jordan as inspiration. The words wer[…]

David Sentis is one of the best techincal painters to come along in recent memory. His skill as a draughtsman combines a concern with object and a worry about humanism, his colour sense sneaks quietly into the viewer and he refuses to allow form to t[…]

The Ataris-Boys of Summer
The fury of the guitars provide a wall of noise, pushing the chorus along of course but it does something else. Don Henley’s orginal is a paen to middle class nostalgia–it is a way to remember that warm summer n[…]

The Artists of Fitzroy Crossing.
The New Yorker last week had a long article on indigenous australian artists, which provided certain cautionary tales about the market, among other things. The aborigines have the longest continuous history of art ma[…]

Fountains of Wayne-Steacys Mom (video)
When hearing this song it works wonderfully, because it is assumed that the kid singing has just come home from college, and it is the kind of decadence that is completely mutual, a graduate for our post ironic […]

Brad Paisley-Celebrity
Brad Paisley’s hot new single (number 4 on Billboard Modern Country Charts), Celebrity, is kissing cousin to the Buck Owens classic Act Naturally,which was a cover of a Beatle’s tune, the only problem is that no one[…]

Beyonce Knowles- Crazy in Love
Everything about the new Beyonce video seems to be cribbed from Madonna: the burning car and the black saints that recall Like A Virigin (with a new meta level added by the fact that Beyonce is dating the saint in real […]

Liz Phair-Hot White Cum (HWC)
It sounds like an 80s sit com, and the lyrics aren’t nearly as dirty or poignant as they used to be. I expected some small punk novelty, like Avril gone porno, it is the safest of the safe, and that counts all of […]

Blink 182-Adams Song
Punk hates itself as much as it hates the world, the adolescent anger that fuels it becomes self loathing with very little provocation. Suicide is not unknown, and other behaviors that are so self destructive that they become […]