Sweet Soul Music Sweet Soul Music
As Trent Lott struggled to "repudiate" segregation fifty years after it was outlawed, about the only point he left out of his incoherent counterattack is that he was a soul-mus...
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
Prick Up Your Ears Prick Up Your Ears
How does a fiercely anticorporate musician feel about participating in a corporate entertainment system?
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
Blowin’ in a New Wind Blowin’ in a New Wind
Ani DiFranco
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
My Guitar Gently Weeps My Guitar Gently Weeps
"I was in a highly unshaved and tatty state," John Lennon said of his 1966 meeting with a certain conceptual artist, then mounting her first show at London's Indica Gallery.
Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Alex Abramovich
Rockin’ in the Free World Rockin’ in the Free World
In a weapons producing nation under Jesus
In the fabled crucible of the free world
Camera crews search for clues amid the detritus
And entertainment shapes the land
Oct 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Jerusalem Calling Jerusalem Calling
On his new album, country-rocker Steve Earle lets politics infuse his music.
Oct 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Corn
Of Jazz and Brave Ulysses Of Jazz and Brave Ulysses
Near the end of Jazz Modernism, Alfred Appel Jr.
Oct 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Yaffe
The Mayor of My Hometown The Mayor of My Hometown
It's only August, but I'll go out on a limb and congratulate the Village Voice's Keith Harris for what I feel confident will stand the test of time as the stupidest comment of ...
Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Scene of the Crime Scene of the Crime
Bob Dylan at Newport
Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
The Thrill Is Gone The Thrill Is Gone
It's easy to rephrase Tolstoy's opening to Anna Karenina so it describes junkies, who all share an essential plot line: Who and how to hustle in order to score. But in the world o...
Jun 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro