Posted Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:22pm PDT
These are Songs About Songs, meta–compositions in which the singing subject refers to the words he's writing (about writing, about writing), in an infinite narcissistic loop. 
Posted Fri Mar 27, 2009 3:05pm PDT
Musicians have long enjoyed fractious relationships with journalists. Here are some great examples of songs that vent rage--or hurt, or contempt--at music critics. 
Posted Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:37pm PDT
It's an astonishing 40 years since Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman formed their massively influential Byrds spinoff the Flying Burrito Brothers. Let's track back to the making of their seminal 1969 debut--and its immediate aftermath. 
Posted Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:06pm PDT
With Devo back in the headlines, and wowing new generations at SXSW, let's revisit the dawn of De-evolution in this excerpt from an early 1978 profile by Sounds' Jon Savage. 
Posted Fri Mar 20, 2009 4:43pm PDT
This year's Phish reunion takes me back to a night in 1996, with the Vermont quartet sequestered in Woodstock's legendary Bearsville studios and playing down the "new Dead" tag everyone wants to pin on them. Says drummer Jon Fishman, "there is no nex 
Posted Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:39am PDT
Long before he achieved narcotic notoriety, Pete Doherty was in a cracking little Brit band called the Libertines. Dorian Lynskey met him on the threshold of infamy. 
Posted Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:35pm PDT
A year before he cut loose from his brothers and started work on the astounding Off The Wall, Michael Jackson spoke to NME's Cliff White about recording in Philly, the genius of Stevie Wonder...and hysterical female fans. 
Posted Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:29pm PDT
With Eddie Vedder and friends on top of the world--and Seattle's grunge scene setting the rock world alight--Mat Snow met the band whose album Ten had outsold Nirvana's Nevermind and swept the MTV awards. This was his report, published in November 19 
Posted Fri Mar 6, 2009 4:31pm PST
My only real brush with the band was in the spring of 1985, when they were a mere eight years old and desperately striving to outgrow the callow anthemics ("I Will Follow," "Gloria," "New Year's Day," "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" et seq.) of their first f 
Posted Wed Mar 4, 2009 12:27pm PST
The mighty Lepps are back in our midst, touring again this summer. A quarter century ago they were the young pups of the "new" heavy metal, riding high on four million sales of their third platter Pyromania. Deborah Frost had this say about the band | Select a Blog | Posts |
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