TSURUBAMI – GEKKYUKEKKAICHI
REBEL POWERS – NOT ONE STAR WILL STAND THE NIGHT
Kawabata Makoto is a one-man Neptunes, a Timbaland of rock, in his own sphere. There’s a style, a sound, an approach that is his but not solely his, someth[…]

COMMENTARY CONUNDRA
Black Caesar
Commentator: Larry Cohen (director/screenwriter)
Perfect. Or near perfect at least. Cohen is half raconteur, half hoary storyteller, all relaxed energy — there’s something truly entertaining about someb[…]

Look, don’t give me that. For one thing, if they can still fill arenas over here in the States, somebody likes ’em, and more to the point, scratch just about half of the bands who currently make up the power-pop-punk-nu-metal mob here or[…]

Introducing — Commentary Conundra
*camera pulls in closely on tuxedoed figure* Greetings, my friends. We are all interested in mass media, for that is what you and I are going to be observing for the rest of our lives! And remember, my friends,[…]

Instant Nostalgia, Not Quite Planned In Advance
The big summer hit, the summery pop song, the type of thing you listen to when you’re out BBQing or on the beach or merrily killing all the mosquitoes around you that adore your very presence, etc[…]

…and worrying if there’s anything beyond it
The iPod helped, to an extent. Vacationing in Australia and New Zealand, I stuffed it with eleven days worth plus of music, mostly stuff I had sitting around that I had barely heard or just not […]

We Will Never Give It Up
I have never really made mix tapes or discs or things like that for myself. For others, yes, sometimes due to love, other times due to, well, education (starting in 1994 or so, after a complaint from my mom that all my genera[…]

Marvin Gaye is dead and I don’t feel well myself — strictly speaking, there’s much in this article I can’t fault and so I won’t. Admittedly, Gaye’s enshrinement in The Pantheon is almost as omnipresent as Dylan&#8[…]

So in a wonderful example of synergy or timing or conspiracy, the Village Voice has released the results of its ‘Pazz and Jop Poll’ the very same week as Them Strokes Fellers are being analyzed here on FT. Placing number two and all is ac[…]

There are other crazy people willing to listen to the Merzbox.
Inspired by Jess’ note below, I wish to note that an employee at the most worthy Aquarius Records in San Francisco undertook listening to the entire Merzbox for review purposes &#82[…]