Point of View

Can Soul Come from the Suburbs?

Or: Even The Beatles Came From Broken Homes

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

It's a beautiful day outside, but you wouldn't know because you're inside being protected by a central air unit. You just bought the latest...

Napster: It's About Control, Stupid

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

I've hardly used Napster at all. I rely on reviews, word of mouth and listening posts — an offline version of Napster. I'm not out to make...

Radiohead's Big Yawn

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Of course, the very act of using a public forum to express doubts about Kid A, Radiohead's hotly anticipated, exhaustively scrutinised four...

Pet Sounds Sucks

The Story vs. The Songs

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

It promises to rally the biggest chorus of music geeks since High Fidelity opened. Brian Wilson, leader of the Beach Boys, is touring this...

Wim Wenders Should Quit His Day Job

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

I hate to be one to try limit cross-disciplinary artistic pursuits, but with a precious few exceptions, very few musicians make good actors...

The Flaming Lips

Dancing in the Dark: The Flaming Lips vs. Indifference

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

We music critics thrive upon our sense of indignation. Despite individually contributing little more to popular culture than an isolated op...

Teeny-bop Goes Clickno-Pop

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Northwest Florida wraps itself tightly around the Gulf of Mexico, populations hugging the coastline, the shore's white sand beaches distrac...

What's a Boy to Do?

Less Talk About Sex, Baby

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

There's been some astute discussion of the music industry's sexism in this magazine of late, in this space and in the letters section, all...