Rockcritics Feature Archives
RECENT ADDS
Blabbin' the Night Away: The rockcritics.com Music Blogger Symposium, featuring Maura Johnston (Idolator), Rich Juzwiak (Four Four), David Moore (The Cure for Bedbugs), Simon Reynolds (Blissblog), and Carl Wilson (Zoilus).
'ZINE THROWDOWNS
The new noise: An oral history of Decibel magazine (By Steven Ward & the cast from Decibel, Feb. 2007)
Running away with the Circus: An oral history of Circus magazine (By Steven Ward & the cast from Circus, May 2005)
This nation's saving grace: The story of Toronto's Nerve, 1984 - 1988 (By Scott Woods & the cast from Nerve, Sep. 2003)
Can't Forget the Motor City: Creem magazine, rock music, Detroit identity, mass consumerism, and the counterculture (By Michael J. Kramer, Jan. 2003)
+ Tony Reay, Creem's founding editor responds to Michael Kramer
ROUNDTABLES & SKIRMISHES
The great lig in the sky: The legendary, first-and-last rock writer's convention. (Oral history, presented by Barney Hoskyns, Sep. 2006)
Gallery of rockism: erroneous, bizarre, and occasionally illuminating usages of today's number-one-with-a-bullet buzzword (By Scott Woods, Aug. 2004)
Triumvirate of metal knowledge: Chück Eddy, Martin Popoff, and Deena Weinstein face off and talk loud guitars and stuff (By Brian O'Neill, March 2003)
Pizzicato reactions: The rockcritics.com classical critics survey with Kyle Gann, Anne Midgette, Greg Sandow, Lloyd Schwartz, and Anthony Tommasini (By Steven Ward & Scott Woods, Oct. 2002)
Cultivating the bustle of Anthony DeCurtis: Richard Riegel vs. Anthony DeCurtis (Oct. 2002)
Writing about dancing: The rockcritics.com disco critics survey with Chuck Eddy, Michael Freedberg, Frank Kogan, Simon Reynolds, and Tricia Romano (March 2001)
Joe Carducci vs. four-eyed fag: Jeff Pike takes on the author of Rock & the Pop Narcotic (March 2001)
YEAR-ENDERS
JASON GROSS'S ANNUAL BEST MUSIC SCRIBING AWARDS
2006: Glimmers of hope in a year's worth of music writing
2005: Virtual salute to the writers who made reading worthwhile
2004: Super-scribing, superior scribing, ignobles, and more
2003: Faves, runners-up, worst, etc.
2002: Top 25 + bottom of the barrel
OBITS & TRIBUTES
Ellen Willis, 1941-2006
Paul Nelson, 1936 - 2006
Rick Johnson, 1951 - 2006
Greg Shaw, 1949 - 2004
Timothy White, 1952 - 2002
MOVIES
2005 movie survey, featuring Brian Abrams, Aaron Aradillas, and Phil Dellio (Jan. 2006)
House of flying Huckabees: Brian Abrams, Aaron Aradillas, and Phil Dellio on the year in movies (Jan. 2005)
Brian Abrams's Top 10 movies of 2003 (Jan. 2004)
Phil Dellio's Top 10 movies of 2003 (Jan. 2004)
The Magnificent Twenty-Two: 22 movie critics surveyed (incl. Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin) (By Brian Abrams, Jan. 2004)
Sight & Sound movie poll debate (Phil Dellio & Andrew Lapointe, Sep. 2002)
Two For the Road: Reinventing the double-bill (By Phil Dellio, July 2002)
Natural born plumbers: John Cazale and the character actors of the 1970s (By Phil Dellio, March 2001)
Strange Magic: The pop-music soundtrack from American Graffiti to Sofia Coppola (By Phil Dellio, Feb. 2001)
How perfectly goddamn delightful it all was: Movies in the 1990s (By Phil Dellio, 1999)
35mm Jukebox: The 20 best uses of pop music in a Martin Scorsese film (By Phil Dellio, 1997)
GALLERIES
Daft Punk, "Digital Love"
ETC.
What's the Story, Sound and Fury? Simon Warner reviews Barney Hoskyns' anthology of rock criticism
We are worthy: Getting a grip on Da Capo's Best Music Writing series (By Scott Woods, Dec. 2002)
In their own write: Excerpt from Paul Gorman's oral history of music criticism, incl. Lisa Robinson, Dick Clark, et al. (Nov. 2001)
Lots of Puff but no fluff in Guralnick anthology: Tom Sawyer reviews the 2000 Da Capo collection (Feb. 2001)
Abate! In the name of love: Phil Dellio has some words for Alanis Morissette (1999)
Pet Shop Boys, Peripherally: The b-sides and side projects of England's prime fabulists (By Jeff Pike, 1997)
Going to a go-go: "Wild Palms"'s good vibrations (By Scott Woods and Phil Dellio, 1996)
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