“It better be,” came the reply. “I flew all the way from San Diego.” There was a pause before someone spoke up: “Boy, did you fuck up.”
I’m not sure it was history, but he didn’t fuck up.
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- Interview: Greil Marcus
Greil Marcus on rock-and-roll photography
- Flashbacks: September 1, 2006
These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Ian Sands and Paul Babin.
- Anarchy in Medford
Sitting in on Tufts lecturer Michael T. Fournier’s course “History of Punk Rock,” offered via the university’s Experimental College, one can’t help but think of Johnny Rotten’s famous final words: “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
- Police force
Along came the Police, packing cold, steely hits with flashes of heat.
- Parsing the Poll II
We had a Sex Pistols moment here at the Phoenix last week.
- Punks find their inner Americana
Punk might have been swept along, cleaned up, dirtied again, then separated into a million different subgenres created to simplify things when really it only complicated everything.
- On the racks: October 17, 2006
Plus the Slits, Sarah McLachlan, and holiday fare.
- The Big Hurt: Attention whoring and headline parsing
Slow news week.
- On the racks: June 27, 2006
. . . and all sorts of guest stars.
- Controlled chaos
It’s 11 am on a Thursday, and Andy Moor is having his first coffee just a few doors down from the American Repertory Theatre’s Loeb Drama Center, the site that will be home to one of his most ambitious projects yet. The Ex, "Weapons for El Salvador" (mp3)
- Of beats and beatitude
What the hell happened to ambient music?
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