Music

WAY TO PROMOTE YOUR SOLO ALBUM, DUDE
Billy Corgan celebrates the release of his debut solo album The Future Embrace by taking out a full page ad in home-town paper the Chicago Tribune, announcing that he’d sooner...
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June 22, 2005

THIS IS WHY WE HATE THE VOICE
As any long-suffering reader knows, Village Voice music critics are paid NOT to offer their actual opinions on an album, only to pontificate in ever-longer roundabout sentences that rarely reach...
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June 22, 2005

FOG OVER THE CHANNEL: CONTINENT CUT OFF
Talking of The Nation’s Favourite (that’s with an ‘ou’ for once), the same day I stick Radio 1 on my computer desktop, it’s announced that the BBC’s flagship station will...
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June 22, 2005

SAL’S THE MAN
I was on Daddy Duty last night and took Campbell to see Madagascar. (Totally harmless fun. Though Chris Rock is about as subtle a voice-over actor as he is a...
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June 22, 2005

ON THE SUBJECT OF RELATIONSHIPS (AND BREAK-UPS)
This Sunday is my wedding anniversary. Hang on, OUR wedding anniversary. And yesterday, I was so busy explaining to my long-suffering wife why I have to spend it at Irving...
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June 22, 2005

ON THE SUBJECT OF JUNE 21st
…Then yesterday must have been the 20th Anniversary of The Longest Day, when U2 headlined Milton Keynes Bowl. Faith Brothers, whom I was managing at the time, were the opening...
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June 22, 2005

REASONS TO BE GRATEFUL: NOTES FROM A WEEKEND IN THE BOROUGH OF KINGS
Elizabeth Padilla will not be forgotten. Her bicycle (I’d like to believe it was her bicycle) has been spray painted white, like an angel, and chained to a parking sign...
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June 21, 2005

2) LUDDITES OF THE WORLD UNITE: YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT AURAL HISS
Writing about the beauty of cassette mix tapes in this week’s Village Voice, Brandon Stosuy notes and then asks: “Cassettes make things weightier. When else have you spent so much...
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June 16, 2005