Tag Archives: book
Kim Fowley Speaks
Kim Fowley — child star, polio survivor, gender-bent performer, svengali — just had his second surgical intervention for bladder cancer, and is in the mood to set some records straight. So even though he thinks I’m a feminist out to … Continue reading
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Riot Grrrl Re/viewed
Brooklyn-based writer Sara Marcus did something I’ve thought of doing, but never had the balls: wrote a history of Riot Grrrl. She did a damn fine job and I said so in the LA Times. Let the hateration begin.
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"Princess Noire" review
“Like her unprocessed voice and Bach-meets-barrelhouse piano style, Nina Simone’s life story is peculiar, beautiful, sometimes off-key and off-color but deeply, disturbingly dramatic. In the 1960s, the “high priestess of soul” wrote and/or sang some of the most moving anthems … Continue reading
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"Hot Stuff" Review
HOT STUFF: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. Alice Echols. Norton. 338 pages. $26.95. Even if you once proudly burned your Bee Gees records and wore “Disco Sucks” T-shirts (mea culpa), you’ll have a hard time resisting the relentless … Continue reading
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