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With economic forecasts still far from rosy for 2012, though -- especially for young people who can't find decent jobs -- this seems like a valuable way to keep things rocking around the Twin Cities music scene. Here are tips on how local music fans...
Those conversant with Kelley’s and Shaw’s archetypal vocabulary will find themselves in familiar territory here: debased Surrealist and Warholian gestures; occult, paranormal, and fundamentalist Christian appropriations; B-movie monsters
Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs/birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom.
Morrison's grave. This was not a pilgrimage, you understand, but because it was a well-known hippy hangout and I hoped that someone might pass me a joint. A couple of years later, old enough not to worry about the critical consensus, I revisited The...
Out Alive, that support half of the stories portrayed in Stone’s film; in fact, they expand on them in some cases. Still, Berman’s assessment burns. If the music’s sophomoric and Morrison’s remembered as “a drunken buffoon,” to borrow from Philip...
If you had asked, say, Lester Bangs or Nick Kent in their respective acerbic primes, they would have probably replied that your editor is the person you ignore, lie to and terrorise in the hope of browbeating them into allowing you to write exactly...
Gary Wright Tidewater Summer League and AAU Baseball 1996 Paul Fraim Mayor of Norfolk 1997 Roy L. Burton, Jr. Founder of Willard-Lakewood Athletics Assoc. Wesleyan and Asst. Coach at ODU 2003 Tim Miller Chairman ACS Systems & Engineering 2004 Luke...
Juliette Lewis is an expert? Isn’t that like Brad Pitt believing he can really manage a major league baseball team, or Lester Bangs thinking he can be a rock star? If you want to watch one skit from last night’s SNL, watch this one, "You Can Do...
Leslie Conway Bangs (December 13, 1948 – April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist, author and musician. Most famous for his work at Creem and Rolling Stone magazines, Bangs was and still is regarded as an extremely influential voice in rock criticism. Full Article
