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Music for the People: Popular Music and Dance in Interwar Britain
Music for the People: Popular Music and Dance in Interwar Britain. By James J. Nott (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiv plus 274 pp.). James ......(Continue Reading) United We Dance - dance music in UK and U.S
Byline: Chris Gill "DJs are international now," says Christopher Lawrence. "I'd like to end the UK versus U.S. rivalry that the press has made up....(Continue Reading)Days between stations: a new collection plucks Lora Logic, a punk-rock gem, from the wings of time and places her front and center - Music Column
Lora Logic isn't an obvious collect-and-reissue candidate. As part of the experimental post-punk London scene from 1978 to 1982, her one-woman, four-man ......(Continue Reading)Days between stations; the Mekons: 25 years, dozens of band members and an obsession with severed heads - Music Column - Brief Article
The Mekons are celebrating their 25th anniversary with an album about severed heads. OOOH! (Quarterstick) is about the salutary effect of severed heads--about ......(Continue Reading)From jailhouse to suburban rock: music once had the ability to appal and shock. Now the most radical symbol worn by fans on the streets is the iPod. As
Fifty years ago, a 19-year-old truck driver walked into a Memphis recording studio and changed the world. There are, inevitably, furious arguments over ......(Continue Reading)
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