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...York “art-damaged punk-disco bands,” failing to recognize the vast difference in the bands’ approaches, and that !!! are in fact from Sacramento. Then reviewer Rob Sheffield alluded to common comparisons between the recent dance-punk bands and late-80s British acid-house, and then declared that “the Happy Mondays sucked.” And then there was the four-star review of the new Strokes album, Room on Fire. Sorry RS, but it doesn’t take much to tell you—you?...
...Dust Brothers gave the Beastie Boys on Paul’s Boutique. The DFA’s production brings the Rapture’s early sound, evocative of Joy Division and the Cure, to its logical fulfillment—bridging the band’s penchant for the 80s with the means and trends of 21st century rock...
Prefuse takes his name from an era of music his alter-ego “holds dear”—the pre-fusion jazz of 1968 to 1973. Also influential for Herren are “80s edit records” and hip-hop, primarily from the years between...
...sensationalized TV movies about the (liberal, Democrat) Kennedys, we would have to clone five Michael Jacksons to fill the holes in the sweeps-stunt calendar. If Americans were going to depend on The Reagans as a history lesson - rather than as a campy Washington version of I Love the 80s - the Republic is doomed. And if you think CBS is interested in coddling only the left, I have three letters...
...photograph on the coffee table captures a perfect moment of joy. It is a Halloween night in the mid-'80s, and Ryan Adams, 11, is in full Kiss make-up, thrusting out his chin and sticking out his tongue like a tiny Gene Simmons. It's an image worth lingering over because in the here and now--early fall in his East Village apartment in New York City--Adams is doing a fair impression of an 11-year-old brat. We are supposed to be talking about his new album, Rock N Roll, but Adams has decided to chain-smoke...