Year: 2004
Contributor Limelight: Nick James
Nick James has been writing his Headphones column for SLUG Magazine for an entire year bringing a spicy, rare taste of DJ music culture to Salt Lake City. … read more
Review: GOD SAVE MY QUEEN: A TRIBUTE – DANIEL NESTER
GOD SAVE MY QUEEN: A TRIBUTE DANIEL NESTER Soft Skull Press Street: 04.2003 In Daniel Nester’s simultaneously lyrical and obsessive treatment of Queen’s musical and metaphysical legacy, both band and ostentatious frontman Freddie Mercury are offered far greater fates than the reputation that precedes the group’s recognizable work, i.e., “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and Mercury’s highly publicized
Review: PICNIC GROUNDS: A NOVEL IN FRAGMENTS – OZ SHELACH
PICNIC GROUNDS: A NOVEL IN FRAGMENTS OZ SHELACH City Lights Street: 04.01.03 Composed in a clean literary style devoid of muddied metaphors and overarching allegories, the hauntingly brief vignettes of Oz Shelach’s Picnic Grounds are guided by the concept of the commons: a series of publicly utilized resources, plots of land and amorphous societal rights.
Review: NOISE OF THE WORLD: NON-WESTERN ARTISTS IN THEIR OWN...
NOISE OF THE WORLD: NON-WESTERN ARTISTS IN THEIR OWN WORDS HANK BORDOWITZ Soft Skull Street: 01.20.05 Don’t tell Condi, but imperialism is bad. That’s not necessarily so, however, when it comes to music. While it’s ironic that whiteys like David Byrne, Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon have opened up the world’s music to the West,
