Week of APR 27
Steven Lugerner and Matana Roberts Stimulate the Ears and the Economy
John Rogers | If teachers' unions represent "a moneyed special interest," as Chris Christie recently asserted (and if he keeps threatening elderly women with a bat, maybe we should start calling this thug "Big Pussy"), what does that make all those supposed small businesses that Republicans extol as job creators—including, by their calculation, S-Corps and LLCs like Koch Industries, Bechtel, and PricewaterhouseCoopers? There's no business like small business, goes the current refrain, and even many e... Read More >>
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Music Blog: Sound of the City
Lady Gaga Wears Pants On Ellen
 April 28, 2011
Lady Gaga's slightly confused ode to her Catholic upbringing "Judas" slipped a bit on the sales charts this week, falling from No. 4 to No. 6 with 158,000 downloads, but that trend might very well be ... Read More >>
Q&A: Insane Clown Posse's Violent J
 April 27, 2011
"Encyclopedias of rock, rap--I see them all the time at the bookstore. Like, when you look at the 'I's and you get to the 'In's and you see 'Incubus,' just to see our name included in there would be s... Read More >>
Pop Star Narcissists
 April 26, 2011
Today's Times has a piece on a psychologist's theory about song lyrics of the current day being proof that we are all self-obsessed narcissists. The psychologist who came up with the theory, Nathan De... Read More >>
Poly Styrene, R.I.P.
 April 26, 2011
Poly Styrene, whose howl and unwillingness to be "seen and not heard" made her a heroine among many, has passed away after a battle with breast cancer. Born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, Styrene quickly... Read More >>
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