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Fate has seemed time and again to draw me into abortion. Many, many people who support the right to choose clarify that they are pro-choice, but not pro-abortion. I cannot claim the same. Abortion, itscloaked and infamous history, everything about it, calls to me, in the depths of my...
album scheduled for mid-April release will feature two live duets with Neil: "Getting Away with It" and "Rebel Rebel." The former song is, of course, from Neil's 1989 collaboration with Electronic. I've just now added a new page for the latter song, which covers a David Bowie classic...
David Crosby, “If I Could Only Remember My Name” (1971)–There’s no reason this psychotic walrus should have a produced a record this great, but he did. Charles Lee Guy III, “The Prisoner’s Dream” (1962)–Wanna hear a legit convict lay his soul out on the hot pavement without...
who has been part of the band for most of its nearly five-decade run. The line-up on Songs of a Lost World also includes two long-time players, Jason Cooper on drums andRoger O’Donnellon keyboards, along with the guitarist Reeves Ga...
Jane Wiedlin:The Go-Go’s are still together, we’ve just retired from touring! We did our final tour in Summer of 2016. Pietro and I wrote for all of 2016 and decided to become a band together in December of that year. ...
His friendship with, and influence on,David Bowiewas a recurring feature of Iggy’s career. He recorded the original of their “China Girl” writing collaboration forThe Idiot, and became a central character during Bowie’s Berlin phase. There was the hit single era, what you might call the...
[Ross]now; they write a lot of soundtracks, stuff like that," he continues, "Martin Gore ofDepeche Mode. My God, there are so many out there, artists that I really look up to. A person likeDavid Bowie, what he did and how he treated his art and what he'd done with his career...
We appreciate more experimental bands when they go pop; far from looking down on it, we treat pop as a virtue. While a lot of interesting stuff can come out of more left-field bands dabbling in pop, we also fetishize it, crowding out true experimentation. At least this reviewer did. ...