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Rocking My Life Away | ARTICLE
Last year at the Grammys, Eminem was the overwhelming story. His lyrics disparaging women and gays on The Marshall Mathers LP had incited an extraordinary amount of debate, but all of the hoopla had not prevented it...
February 22, 2002 12:00 AM ET -
And All That Could Have Been | ALBUM REVIEW
While for most musicians live albums are little more than concert souvenirs or holiday-season cash-ins, that's not true of Nine Inch Nails. Trent Reznor has always seen his music as an endless work in progress. Releasing...
January 31, 2002 12:00 AM ET -
Rocking My Life Away: 2001 in Music | ARTICLE
There's no way around it: 2001 has been a brutally hard year. The terrorist attacks on September 11th sent everybody reeling, and the sagging economy has left millions of people worried and out of work. So, I...
December 21, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
George Harrison (1943 - 2001) | ARTICLE
The first time I met George Harrison, he appeared behind me as if he were a ghost. It was 1987, and I was coming to his home in Henley-on-Thames, a leafy London suburb, to interview him for...
November 30, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
Rocking My Life Away: Pink Floyd | ARTICLE
Hipsters have never had any use for Pink Floyd. Remember, it was John Lydon's "I Hate Pink Floyd" T-shirt that got him discovered, and helped launch the punk-rock insurgency of the Seventies. For many people, that T-shirt...
November 28, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
Room For Squares | ALBUM REVIEW
The title is lifted from a 1963 Hank Mobley album called No Room for Squares, and the change is telling. Twenty-three-year-old John Mayer is far too unassuming to share Mobley's ultrahip exclusiveness. Indeed, Room for Squares, Mayer's...
November 13, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
Rocking My Life Away; McCartney's Personal Attacks | ARTICLE
It's funny -- no one is worried about "charity fatigue" any more. It's a question that used to come up all the time whenever a big benefit show was planned or an artist espoused a worthy cause....
October 24, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
Yoko Opens Up on "Blueprint" | ARTICLE
"'The first track can't be too long' -- that's the kind of thing John was always saying to me," Yoko Ono says with a fond chuckle. "But I wanted to just do it. I've been noncommercial from...
October 11, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
Rocking My Life Away: Why Music Matters | ARTICLE
Over the past few weeks I've read a great deal and had many conversations with friends and colleagues about what popular music can mean in the wake of the horrific terrorist attacks on the United States. Everyone...
September 28, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
Rocking My Life Away: Fred Neil | ARTICLE
"He was a hero to me," David Crosby said of singer-songwriter Fred Neil. But when Neil died of cancer on July 7th at the age of sixty-four, hardly anyone took notice. That's understandable, in a way. A...
July 20, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
Best Of Muddy Waters | ALBUM REVIEW
The Best of Muddy Waters collects twelve tracks that the legendary bluesman recorded and released as 78s between 1948 and 1954. These songs, one masterpiece after another, not only made his reputation on the burgeoning Chicago blues...
May 29, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
An Appreciation of Bob Dylan, 40 Years On | ARTICLE
"Oh, God, it's so hard," Bono complained to me recently as we began a conversation about Bob Dylan. "It's like trying to talk about the...
May 23, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
All For You | ALBUM REVIEW
Both Janet Jackson and her older brother Michael started out as cuddly child stars and then retreated into more-remote personas. But while Michael has nearly vanished into a sexually ambivalent neverland, Janet has made the attainment of...
May 1, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
Rocking My Life Away: Springsteen and Harper | ARTICLE
The live double-disc sets released recently by Bruce Springsteen and Ben Harper -- and the truly mad onslaught of six dozen live Pearl Jam albums over the last half year -- all brought to mind something Steve...
April 25, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
Lights Out | ALBUM REVIEW
Eighteen-year-old Lil' Wayne, one of B.G.'s fellow Hot Boys (along with Juvenile and Young Turk), has followed up his blinging '99 debut, Tha Block Is Hot, with Lights Out. Mannie Fresh is at the board once again,...
February 1, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
Beatles Shadow Loomed Over 2000 | ARTICLE
Should it be surprising that as the year 2000 comes to a close, the band that is on everybody's minds is the Beatles? When I asked Bono last fall which band he sees as the role model...
December 22, 2000 12:00 AM ET -
King Of The New York Streets | ALBUM REVIEW
One of the greatest singers in the history of rock & roll, Dion DiMucci has also lived one of the music's most compelling stories. Dion and the Belmonts rocketed to fame in the late Fifties with hits...
November 21, 2000 12:00 AM ET -
Johnny Cash Won't Back Down | ARTICLE
On a sunlit afternoon, Johnny Cash sits in a large, comfortable chair in the Hendersonville, Tennessee, house he's shared with his wife, June...
October 26, 2000 1:50 PM ET -
You're the One | ALBUM REVIEW
On his new album, You're the One, Paul Simon lowers the conceptual heat that typically surrounds his projects. After the South African and Brazilian journeys of, respectively, Graceland (1986) and The Rhythm of the Saints (1990) —...
October 3, 2000 12:00 AM ET -
Heartbreaker | ALBUM REVIEW
Though he's only twenty-five, Ryan Adams, the lead singer of Whiskeytown, is the sort of artist who seems perpetually on the cusp of a masterpiece. He came close with his star-crossed band, which is currently trying to...
September 14, 2000 12:00 AM ET
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