Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel like we've hit rock bottom," said Kacyvenski. "This feels even worse than the Cornell loss...
...night Hitchcock had succeeded in drawing the entire audience into his little world of metaphorical associations. Though he is often described in the rock press as eccentric (Details magazine once went so far as to show him Rorschach blots; the verdict was complete sanity) and frequently compared to Pink Floyd's Syd Barret (pre-permanent acid trip), by the end the crowd assembled was ready to call him a lyrical genius, albeit a cryptic...
...Hitchcock approaches his self-declared age limit for rock and roll, he beginning to turn his creative energies to another medium: he is writing a novel. The plot? "It's about somebody whose past changes, so by the time the book ends the beginning couldn't have happened," he says. Odd? Certainly. As brilliant as his music? One can only hope...
Liebert Misses Distinction Between Rock, Top 40 Music...
...writing to protest Hugh Liebert's column ("The American Invasion," Oct. 26), where he laments the way American Top 40 music has corrupted global culture. Indeed, Top 40 music is often idiotic and profoundly uninteresting; however, Liebert makes the mistake of conflating Top 40 with rock music in general. Top-40 is produced and promoted by a few profit-seeking major record labels like RCA, Columbia, and Warner Brothers, which release same-sounding music in hopes of discovering the next big hit. This "rock star" approach is deeply at odds with a more vital function of rock music, that...