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  • Charles Manson: When I Get to the Bottom

    by Brian BrownJune 11, 2008Comments (37)

    Dennis Wilson called Manson his Wizard and the two became very close, swapping girls, songs, and religious ideas. Wilson meanwhile championed Manson to the elite music establishment by opening all sorts of doors for him, dropping him off, guitar in hand, at the hippest gatherings and playing his demos to whomever would listen. He even used Manson’s ideology in interviews. Suddenly the surfing, All-American, beefcake Beach Boy was talking about fear (read more)

  • Your Handy Guide to the Month in Music

    by Mike ConklinJune 4, 2008Comments (5)

    "... the leak was pre-meditated, a subtle way for the band to tell us, 'Look, here it is: You’ve got your favorite record of the summer, just in time for all your Memorial Day BBQs.'" (read more)

  • SST Records: Working Muscles, Packaged Wallop

    by Danny (Shredder) WeizmannMay 21, 2008Comments (2)

    Despite the seemingly unbustable music industry systems, the SST Attack (as they dub it) has actually paid off. Bands that were critically degraded and downright ignored on radio five years ago (check Minutemen, Hüsker Dü) now grace critics’ Top Fives across the nation. Chuck Dukowski, who has not only played for SST bands Black Flag, Oktobergaction, and currently SWA, but also involves himself daily (read more)

  • Wear Your Beatles on Your Sleeve: Dr. Dog vs. Oasis

    by Lavinia Jones WrightMay 14, 2008Comments (4)

    Enter Oasis and Dr. Dog—an English, stadium-filling, anthemic rock band with terrifying egos, and a rootsy Philadelphia gaggle of hippies—bands that have almost nothing in common except that they wear their Beatles influences on their sleeves. When the music industry’s gaze started to shift away from the singles system and toward album-oriented rock (read more)

  • Hüsker Dü and the Replacements: Euphoric… Urgent... Raucous... Drunk

    by Andy GillMay 7, 2008Comments (1)

    Originally published in  Q , August 1987 Minneapolis: It must be something they put in the water. As well as dominating the post-Thriller black pop market—via Prince and his acolytes (Sheila E, Appollonia Six, the Time, Jill Jones, Madhouse) and the Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis production stable (read more)

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