Johnny Angel

Butterfly Meets Bazooka

Johnny Angel
Brian Robin likes to peruse the hilariously irreverent, progressive Web site Bartcop.com. One Sunday night in July, in the privacy of his Lancaster home, Robin came upon an item about an appearance by Congressman Bill Thomas (R-Bakersfield) on CNN, where he repeated the Republican Party mantra that blames the year‘s......

Major Pains

Johnny Angel
In the midst of what may be the worst year in record-business history, with industry execs citing downloading, payola-restricted radio playlists and consumer apathy as the culprits, it may be a strange time to start a label. Yet that didn‘t even enter the thinking of Anna Waronker and Charlotte Caffey,......
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Rebirth of the Uncool

Johnny Angel
Rust never sleeps, so the saying goes, but neither does the endless remaking and remodeling of the past. Credit the advent of CD technology that makes old shit sound sort of like new shit; credit the idea that the primitive human psyche can‘t keep up with the speed of change,......
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Jam Out the Kicks

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For the Mooney Suzuki, everywhere‘s Motor City THE MOONEY SUZUKIElectric Sweat (Gammon) Who are the Mooney Suzuki? Four New Yorkers whose love of Detroit is beyond the normally accepted boundaries of Motor City fandom: starry-eyed acolytes of Grand Funk cover art and hyperdriven Mitch Ryder roots R&B who espouse, most......

Home Grown?

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As the specter of anthrax spread up the Eastern seaboard from Florida to New York, Americans began an inevitable round of speculation on the source of this “other shoe.” And while Osama bin Laden and his supposed allies were considered early on as the likely suspects, government officials are backing......

At Auction

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If Southern California is car heaven, then the Anaheim car lot that is home to the Cade Automobile Dealers’ Auction might be its purgatory. Each week, the fate of 2,500 or more bank repos, dealer overstocks, fleet selloffs, trade-ins and salvages is decided by the used-car men and women who......
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It’s the Oil

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In the orgy of endless examination and re-examination of who and what is to blame for the events of September 11, we must have read every conceivable explanation, 20/20 hindsight being the gift of today’s pundit class. The American right, as exemplified by President Bush, Fox News and the opinion......
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Joey Ramone

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Photo by Danny Clinch Jeffrey Hyman, a.k.a. Joey Ramone, lead singer of the New York punk band the Ramones, died of lymphoma on Sunday, April 15. He was 49 years old. As the singer for the band that for all intents and purposes invented punk, Ramone was very much the......
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For Earth Below

Johnny Angel
’Twas the great rock philosopher Ted Nugent who once said that the truly heavy in rock was akin to dragging one‘s balls along the concrete. And right he was. The basis of all the low-down, bass-grounded, quarter- to half-note-delayed kick-and-snare sludge the world has known and loved since the dawn......
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For Earth Below

Johnny Angel
’Twas the great rock philosopher Ted Nugent who once said that the truly heavy in rock was akin to dragging one‘s balls along the concrete. And right he was. The basis of all the low-down, bass-grounded, quarter- to half-note-delayed kick-and-snare sludge the world has known and loved since the dawn......