Email Author Jay Babcock

2000 Stories by Jay Babcock

• Peppermint Twist

  published December 28, 2000

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• Dead Air

  published December 14, 2000

  It‘s easy to be annoyed by Jim Ladd. For a DJ, he talks an awful lot. A sentence from his 1991 memoirs, Radio Waves: Life an... More >>

• Paid in Full

  published December 7, 2000

  Blink and you mighta missed it on Headline News, but this past Memorial Day weekend, the first-ever Detroit Electronic Music Festival went off... More >>

• Big Top Brainville

  published November 23, 2000

  Since Dutch Reagan‘s second term serving jellybeans, the Flaming Lips have been rolling into lucky towns across America on a near-annual basis... More >>

• Sleeping Beauties

  published November 9, 2000

  Whistle While You Work ”I like making things,“ says Ben Eshbach. And so, by day, he‘s the guy at his family’s Burbank-b... More >>

• New World Disorder

  published October 26, 2000

  Photo by Pennie Smith RADIOHEAD Kid A (Capitol) “Hey man, slow down, slow down,” head Radiohead Thom Yorke plead... More >>

• Smack My Glitch Up

  published August 31, 2000

  [open doc] 01 : Here he comes now-now: the new breed with the (six-oh-) sixth sense, talking at DSL speed through the analogue... More >>

• Radical Cheek

  published August 17, 2000

  Photo by Steve Gullick Hanin Elias is talking about bombs. “Did you hear about the explosion in Düsseldorf yesterday?” she asks. “S... More >>

• Cosmic Cuckoos

  published May 18, 2000

  AMERICAN RECORDINGS Because we have our own aural tradition and need for congregation with like minds . . . because we can’t, no... More >>

• Not Fade Away

  published March 16, 2000

  Photo by Andrew McPhearsonWHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG? WAS THE NEW OASIS album's original title, and they shoulda kept it. It was an... More >>