Swell post on Joe Carducci’s blog about the roles of Lee Abrams and Jann Wenner in the homogenization of music culture transmissions during the 1970s.  There’s a (predictable) bias against the more synthetic end of music (admitting one’s fondness for same is metaphorically equated to admitting one is gay toward the [...]

Mark Richardson, today’s column:
A friend of mine used to have a tape made by his college roommate’s band. They were from Lansing, Mich., they were called the Smalls, and as far as I know they played only a small handful of gigs years ago. I am not even sure [...]

GQ’s Steve Albini interview, published online just yesterday, has already stirred a ridiculous debate amongst music fans and critics. Albini is, of course, notoriously cranky about the “mainstream” and major labels–and to a large degree, rightfully so.  But in the GQ piece he used Sonic Youth’s 1990 signing with DGC [...]