SHONEN KNIFE

Album Reviews Shonen KnifeBurning FarmYama-no AttchanPretty Little Baka Guy712(Oglio)BANANAS AND BARBIE TOGETHER AGAIN WITH THE RELEASE OF THE FIRST 10 YEARS OF JAPANESE SUGAR-PUNK TRIO.Shonen Knife was one of Kurt ...   More

 

Wednesday, March 2, 2005 Amy Phillips

A FORCE OF NATURE

German punk chanteuse Nina Hagen has owned the stage for 25 years. Oh, and she once met God while on LSD.

Music Stories Nina Hagen is explaining her music to me. "Like what actors do in different movies, playing different parts, I embrace different music styles," the 49-year-old German cult star says, on the phone from ...   More

 

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 Amy Phillips

File Under Whatever

Buck 65, Mush Records and the Death of Genre

Music Stories Imagine a world where genres didn't exist. It would be pretty cool, right? Radio stations would play anything and everything, record stores would file their stock alphabetically, writers would be forc ...   More

 

Wednesday, October 6, 2004 Amy Phillips

Splitting (Platinum Blonde) Hairs

From similar beginnings, Gwen Stefani and Juliana Hatfield took very different paths. Why?

Music Stories In 1995, I hated Juliana Hatfield and Gwen Stefani. They were easy targets: dolled-up beauties cooing about spinning the bottle and being "just a girl," cashing in with what I saw as a pathetic, water ...   More

 

Wednesday, June 16, 2004 Amy Phillips

The Seth Effect

The revolution is coming, and it listens to Death Cab for Cutie.

Music Stories Seth Cohen is a teenager who lives with his parents in Orange County, Calif. A lanky, awkwardly cute kid with curly brown Jew-fro hair, he likes video games, comic books and sarcasm. Seth is shy and b ...   More

 

Wednesday, May 5, 2004 Amy Phillips