DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL – “Screaming Infidelities” A couple of years ago, this song would have found its niche on a Post Marked Stamps record. Put amidst the, um, inspired yelping and yawping of his peers, this quite coffee-shop-tal[…]
*NSYNC (w/ Nelly) – “Girlfriend” Well, hot damn! They remembered how to have a good time! I can do without the love = shield ruminations (blah blah maturity blah blah; people can read poetry and NOT turn into pretentious bores, y&[…]
PAUL MCCARTNEY – “From a Lover to a Friend” ELTON JOHN – “This Train Don’t Stop There Any More” “Hey there.” “Hello. How’ve you been?” “Ehh. It’s been a tough year.[…]
COURTNEY, COURTNEY, COURTNEY: Three articles from the NME website. So much to say, but there’s just not enough time in the day / week / lunar cycle. And now I hear her voice in my head, saying all these stupid stupid things. Calgon, take me[…]
R-E-S-P-E-C-T?: Subjects given their first entries in the new [E]ncyclopaedia [Britannica] include lesbianism, the drug ecstasy and hip-hop music. Well, it’s only taken hip-hop a couple of decades, but LESBIANISM? I have a hunch that conserv[…]
KYLIE MINOGUE — Can’t Get You Out of My Head It’s an obsession. The way her body jerks around when she dances, like a broken robot, like the beat’s forcing her to move more than she wants. The look in her eyes, as inviting a[…]
CRED ALERT!: Then there’s “Can’t Hold Us Down,” an empowerment anthem with a confident, man-eating swagger that recalls Blu Cantrell’s “Hit ‘Em Up Style (Oops!)” and Mary J. Blige’s “Family[…]
WOODY GUTHRIE – This Land Is Your Land Teaching children to sing folk songs might be about as rewarding as assigning them book reports on The Abridged Moby Dick. (Kudos goes out to the Langley Schools Music Project one more time, for bucking t[…]
Oh Lordy, Trouble So Hard: ‘The marriage of art and commerce, when it’s well done, makes for great music,’ says Moby. ‘Whether it’s Gershwin, the Doors or Public Enemy. Right now, things are out of whack in both directi[…]
I Can Be Your Hero, Baby: After halfheartedly swapping spit with actresses Shannon Elizabeth and Jennifer Love Hewitt on the sets of previous videos, Mr. Enrique Iglesias took another step towards securing his Luckiest Sumbitch crown by invading the[…]