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DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU’RE GOING TO?
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DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU’RE GOING TO? or YOU & ME ARE THROUGH
Not sure if this is real news to anyone, but Sarah’s snarkery regarding Bond Girls going P!O!P! (or attempting such an explosion) gives us a perfect opportunity to look at t[…]

BASEMENT JAXX – “Where’s Your Head At”
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BASEMENT JAXX – “Where’s Your Head At”
Fun, he says. This is a “fun” song. I’m guessing Mr. Ewing doesn’t watch much of the music television, because if he (like I) were exposed to this song via the i[…]

LISTLESSLY LISTING
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LISTLESSLY LISTING
I’m in my bedroom / office / apartment — clothes intermingle with compact discs and books in a disheveled orgy of non-productive capitalism. I’m looking at a contentious article recently published by Salon.com, w[…]

DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?
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What the holidays mean to me, an avowed cynic with half-hearted aspirations of an optimistic rebirth: stress over buying Christmas gifts; traffic surround malls & other shopping areas that would shame most rotaries; wrapping paper that won&#8217[…]

Robert Christgau In Two Parts:
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Robert Christgau In Two Parts:
1) For the lovers, the official Robert Christgau website is open for business, chock full of his hit-&-run Consumer Guide antics (along with other, longer, more considered pieces of prose).
2) For the haters, there[…]

CREED — ‘My Sacrifice’ P.O.D. — ‘Alive’
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CREED — ‘My Sacrifice’
P.O.D. — ‘Alive’
Oh, these dastardly bastards, trying to poison the airwaves with their Christian values and their holier-than-thou righteousness. Listen to that Scott Stapp, singing about a […]

STUPID AND CONTAGIOUS – Nirvana, Then, Now
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It’s inescapable. Anytime some music documentary takes a look back on the 1990s, there’s bound to be THAT SEGMENT. You know, that point where some rock musician or rock journalist extols the unending virtues of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. […]

LOU REED — ‘Walk on the Wild Side’
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Oh, sure, he came off as street smart & gruff, talking smack about smack users and transvestities and other miscreants, showing off his track marks like the badges of courage he wants them to be, living the Raymond Chandler pulp life he epitomize[…]

JANET JACKSON (featuring Missy Elliott) — “Son of a Gun (Remix)” PINK — “Get This Party Started”
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JANET JACKSON (featuring Missy Elliott) — “Son of a Gun (Remix)”
PINK — “Get This Party Started”
Once upon a time, a footloose and fancy-free Janet whimsically daydreamed about that special someone in the bar with […]

STAIND — “It’s Been Awhile”
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STAIND — “It’s Been Awhile”
Rock bands (the epitome of masculinity, some might say) getting weepy and sensitive (in other words, feminine) sells a lot of records. It’s crass, it’s sappy, and it’s often insuf[…]

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