Urban Honking

Joe Gross had me and Dulli pegged. In his Whigs entry for Rolling Stone‘s album guide he wrote “‘Gentleman,’ [Afghan Whigs] will take to their grave. Inside a brilliant, knowing record sleeve hides one of ’90s rock’s messiest psychodramas: reportedly written after a particularly nasty break-up, the Gentleman song-cycle portrays the artist as a grandmaster […]

According to Don, the lovely French man who is sleeping on my living room floor, The Naast and The Brats are the hottest rock tickets in Paris right now. I am either an inefficient googler, or I am having probs finding anything substantial on the internet, which is possibly a side effect of the fact […]

like, on jessica’s blog, my friend/ex-coworker katia dunn aired her npr spotlight on fugazi, starring jessica, among others, like ian mackaye and… katia. one time for a story, back when we were working together, katia slaughtered a chicken and cooked it to find out if she could, ethically, remain a meat-eater. she still is, but […]

Finally, Riversong fulfills the public want for musicians who integrate history, Libertarianism, born-again Christianity, cowboy poetry and healing with harp playing, which is sometimes improvised according to the energy of the audience. He is also in recovery. Niche? Forget it. My advice to Joanna Newsom: step easy, woman. Meanwhile, Prof. Kun gets down for the […]

from the top of the roseland balcony, king sunny ade + 9 person band looked like sparkle motion, flash-flashing deep funk, those deeply funky polyrhythms, the blinding magnitude of the best concert i will ever see, probably, ever. if you are ever going to hire someone to play talking drum on your record, and you […]

yeah but according to the production notes, for Missy’s “on and on”, Neptunes have sampled Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick “The Show,” which may be wrong. as far as i can tell it slips a transparency over the beat and maybe flips the synth. Inspector Gadget so creepy, like “BEWARE,” and then “BOING BOING, […]

watched “boyz n the hood” the other night, for multiple work/research purposes, for the first time since the ’90s. saw it like 30 times when it came out, so i was surprised when i lost it like a lil bebe, like heaving-crying at the end even tho i already knew the outcome. what a brilliant, […]

My love for the Urban Honking massive is endless, nameless like Zeus–not crazy like that Linda Blair of a Pope. They are, after all, the posse that brought us Miranda July’s blog and The Ultimate Blogger, America’s first reality blog (predated by that reality article series about high-school ladies in Elle Girl, but only slightly)–WITH […]

jessica SAID she was making us all anita hill t-shirts, but until then, you should definitely sign the petition against sexual discrimination at the Source, created by hip-hop feminists Elizabeth Mendez-Berry, Joan Morgan and Jeff Chang. The “whys” are all in there.