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Chuck Klosterman

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Silicon Beach: 5 People Making L.A. a New Tech Industry Capital

    Los Angeles may be 350 miles south of Silicon Valley, but it's making strides to close the distance between the two in terms of sheer brain power and inventiveness (with a little bit of entertainment thrown in for good measure). Here are five people from our People issue helping to make that happen.

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    Sundance Film Festival 2012: LCD Soundsystem's Last Show in Shut Up and Play the Hits

    A mash-up of cinema and journalism, document and performance; a concert film sandwiched between a mission statement and a staged punctuation to a career: the LCD Soundsystem documentary Shut up and Play the Hits offers more basic narrative satisfaction than many of the fiction films shown here usin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: The Complete List

    ​See also: *Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums One day I was sitting around thinking I want to write a song about ménage a trois...and the line 'love in stereo' came into my head. Inspiration can happen anywhere at any time. -Jani Lane, Hit Parader magazine History has not been ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #5-1

    ​See also: *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time: #15-11 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #10-6 *Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums ​5. Motley Crue Shout At the Devil (1983) Motley Crue's second record stands a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums

    See also: Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: The Complete List It's hair metal week on West Coast Sound! And it's hard to imagine a greater enthusiast for the genre than Chuck Klosterman. His 2001 music memoir Fargo Rock City does an exemplary job of examining what was great about the cock rock ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16

    See also: *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #15-11 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #10-6 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #5-1 *Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums One day I was sitting around thinking I want to write a song about ménage a trois...and the l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2008

    The 10 Songs/Albums That No One Should Ever Have Sex to Again

    Because playing these albums in flagrante delicto is the only romantic gesture lamer than offering a woman a fish sandwich. 10. Cornball Stevie Wonder Songs (I.E. "You are the Sunshine of My Life." "I Just Called to Say I Love You") I'm not going to tell you that these songs don't serve a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2008

    Last Night: Chuck Klosterman and Spike Lee Double-Header at Book Soup

    There were moments when listening to journalist Chuck Klosterman read from his debut novel, Downtown Owl, inside Book Soup felt like watching a performance from the late comedian Mitch Hedberg. It was all in the pacing, with a simple pause and a slight shift in pitch turned simple observations into ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2008

    Grab The Believer's Music Issue While It's Still on the Racks -- It's Totally Worth It

    Though it's been out for the past month or so, I'd highly recommend that you race to your nearest newstand to grab the recent music issue of The Believer, which is still on the newstands this week (or so we've been told) but on the verge of vanishing. There are a number of sublime highlights in ... More >>

  • Music

    June 26, 2008

    Record Reviews: Coldplay, Modey Lemon

    Though it's been out for the past month or so, I'd highly recommend that you race to your nearest newstand to grab the recent music issue of The Believer, which is still on the newstands this week (or so we've been told) but on the verge of vanishing. There are a number of sublime highlights in ... More >>

  • Music

    January 18, 2007

    Oh My. Oh No. O.C.!

    Though it's been out for the past month or so, I'd highly recommend that you race to your nearest newstand to grab the recent music issue of The Believer, which is still on the newstands this week (or so we've been told) but on the verge of vanishing. There are a number of sublime highlights in ... More >>

  • News

    October 5, 2006

    When Pac-Man Was God

    Best art bits & bytes

  • Music

    June 22, 2006

    Have Fun, F*ck Sh*t Up

    Youth is not wasted on teen punks Be Your Own Pet

  • Music

    December 22, 2005

    Blogs & iPods & Jay-Z & (non-ironic) Metal

    The Hipster’s musical year-end predictions and post-game analysis

  • Columns

    September 2, 2004

    Like Goths to the Flame

    The Hipster’s musical year-end predictions and post-game analysis

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