Love Goes to Buildings on Fire – Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes (This review was published in the Washington Independent Review of Books, December 2011) Music journalist Will Hermes, referring to rock ‘n’ roll critics back in the day, wrote, “… their sense that the entire world of art […]
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Will Hermes knows a lot about buildings and tunes
Thursday, December 29th, 2011Hipper than you – A Visit From the Goon Squad
Thursday, December 16th, 2010Elvis Costello released his third album in the snowy winter of 1979. In those days, Elvis was known as a ‘new wave’ rocker, not ‘punk,’ not mainstream, but hard to define, left of center, quirky. Kicking off side two of Armed Forces was a vaguely martial, grim tale of trying to make it as a […]
