Articles By alec hanley bemis

Brian McBride, Drone Musician and USC Debate Coach: An Interview

Wed, Apr 9, 2008, 5:58 pm

Resolved: Stars of the Lid play very slowly

The Glowing Trough of Music: Five Days of South by Southwest

Wed, Mar 19, 2008, 1:30 pm

We laugh, we cry, we hate, we score some dirt weed, suck at the corporate teat, rejoice

What Would Crass Do? Jeffrey Lewis Interprets England's Crustiest Punk Band

Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 10:17 am

Hardcore (re)contextualized

Blackouts, Sellouts and Freakouts

Wed, Nov 21, 2007, 10:58 am

 

Awesome Music

Wed, Oct 17, 2007, 3:00 pm

What might the classical music establishment learn from pop?

Summer Lovin', Happened So Fast

Wed, Aug 29, 2007, 9:00 pm

 

The World According to Hutz

Wed, Aug 22, 2007, 4:30 pm

Sufism, Chernobyl, Little Richard madness and other adventures in cultural fusion with Gogol Bordello’s mastermind

The (Ugly, Nasty, Pissed) Men Among Children

Wed, Aug 1, 2007, 6:00 pm

With Deerhunter, The Horrors and Pissed Jeans

Slint's Return to Spiderland

Wed, Jul 18, 2007, 6:00 pm

Brian McMahan on the return of his band . . . and party music!

Math Rock, M.I.A., and the Secret of iTunes Plus

Wed, Jun 13, 2007, 4:25 pm

Bonde Do Role: With a name that good, does it matter whether they are? Math…

The World According to Björk, Aoki, Tweedy and a Gaggle of Teenage Guitar Girls

Wed, May 23, 2007, 7:05 pm

Björk as Middle-Aged Pixie Can you judge a female diva based on how she copes…

Rappers Who'll Make You Dial for Dollars

Wed, May 2, 2007, 3:00 pm

And post-feminist pop from one-hit wonders

Take You Higher!

Wed, Mar 28, 2007, 6:00 pm

Featuring Prince as Joni, Emo as jock-jam

Trondheim Rock City!

Wed, Mar 14, 2007, 3:00 pm

Scandinavia’s biggest rock fest, featuring Aryan cuties, a Nazi bowling alley and the prime minister’s glam grandson

Illuminating the Manuscripts

Wed, Mar 7, 2007, 6:00 pm

The Arcade Fire’s modest grandeur

Sales Go Soft. Shins Go Limp. Rock Critics Go Limper.

Wed, Feb 28, 2007, 6:00 pm

Hips Don’t Matter: If James Brown was the godfather of soul, Prince is certainly his…

Folk, Without the Beards

Wed, Feb 14, 2007, 8:00 pm

Meet Grizzly Bear, indie rock’s best “gay-straight-straight-straight quadrant”

Hip-Hop Is Dead

Wed, Jan 31, 2007, 3:00 pm

...and other reports that have been greatly exaggerated

Stone, Warm, Sober

Wed, Jan 17, 2007, 3:00 pm

From laughing gas to nonalcoholic beer: Robert Stone in the ’60s and today

The Year Blogs Got Lame, Business Got Hip and Nostalgia Was King

Wed, Dec 27, 2006, 6:00 pm

Down With the Blogstablishment: The last few years have seen the rise of unexpected tastemakers…

Baby Bands, New-School Show Tunes and the Rise and Fall (!) of Yindie

Wed, Nov 29, 2006, 6:00 pm

  Jay-Z, “Show Me What You Got” (Island/Def Jam) The distinctive horns on Jay-Z’s first…

Dirty Reggae

Wed, Nov 8, 2006, 12:00 pm

The Aggrolites play ska as Jah intended

Too Much Sexy

Wed, Oct 25, 2006, 6:00 pm

Pedro Winter and the French funk of Ed Banger Records

Heady Metal, Britain's Favorite DJ, and a Defense of Americana's Best Killers

Wed, Oct 18, 2006, 6:00 pm

Metal never dies, it just gets smarter: This column has been accused of being too…

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