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Let It Shine
What’s a beatnik?” My young friend Emily, a Medill senior, asked me recently. We were discussing Halloween costumes, and I mentioned that back in the late ’50s I loved to dress up as a beatnik on Halloween: tight black clothes, heavy black eyeliner, and long black hair (courtesy of my mother’s long black scarf). Beatniks […]
Hinge Goes West
In 1998 a young Kanye West and the group he was producing/rapping with, The Go Getters, booked time at Hinge Studios and worked with Craig Bauer, the studio’s engineer and owner. Bauer says the sessions were pretty run-of-the-mill — he remembers West and his crew being nice, decent, normal human beings.
Carpetbaggers & Nincompoops
Howard Stern‘s switch to Sirius satellite radio next year will leave his Infinity Broadcasting family of 27 stations high and dry (his last “free” radio show will air here December 16th on WCKG-FM 105.9). In New York and six other markets he’ll be replaced by diminutive former Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth. Los Angeles […]
Around Hear
The rapid punk rock of After The Fight‘s debut LP, Basura Solamente, is a punchy, crisp set of 13 songs. “Video Tape Sex” and “Fool Me Twice” are more melodic than other tracks and showcase the band’s high frenzied energy the best. The dual vocals sound strained and out of tune at times, but ATF’s […]
Feelin’ Retro?
RETRO-KING 18 Watt Combo Retro-King Amps‘ 18 Watt Combo featuring two 10-inch or 12-inch speakers is the latest labor of love in their custom-made lineup of hand-wired tube amplifiers. A class AB amp, the 18 Watt Combo is a replica of the hard to find (and afford) 1966 Marshall 18-watt lead combo amplifier. Retro-King Amps […]
Kevin Bacon Q&A
HELLO, MY NAME IS KEVIN BACON IE: This is more of an informal thing. We’re not gonna ask you any technical things, like recording techniques. So, how did you decide where to place the microphones? Kevin Bacon: We tried to put the mikes close enough to hear the music, but not so close that they […]
Green Day DVD!
Green Day: Bullet In A Bible Reprise Records O.K., raise your hand if a couple of wholesale jerseys years ago you thought that Green Day were dead and buried. Perhaps you thought that they were a band that would never be able to match the success of the billion-selling Dookie, and whose lasting impression on […]
December “File”
FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK . . . The Chicago Park District salutes Jerseys you! As long as you are making them a bunch of dough. The Chicago Sun-Times reported last month city officials have decided not to hit Chicagoans with a park district property tax increase in 2006, partly because they plan to raise […]
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