Results for Lenny Bruce
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by Denise Sullivan•March 4, 2009•
"What the Ash Grove did," says Ed Pearl, "was change the face of popular music." So why would anyone want to burn it down three times?
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by Franklin Bruno•January 14, 2009•
Costello’s ungentle judgment of Americans raised the stakes: “We hate you. We only come here for the money... We’re the original white boys, you’re the colonials.” The May 5, 1979 RS “Random Notes” item, reported from information offered by Bramlett, gives this as a general pronouncement to the “barroom crowd”; in other reconstructions, it is a response to a fan’s questions. Either way, this is fairly self-damning as insults go, splitting the difference
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by The Editors•May 14, 2008•
Read shared stories from Paul and other writers and editors who worked on the original Crawdaddy! (plus our own Denise Sullivan who writes quite eloquently on the Crawdaddy! spirit). As we take time this issue to pay homage to the original, as our own one-year anniversary wouldn’t even be remotely possible without it, we hope you enjoy them as they recount their insightful tales.
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by Denise Sullivan•February 6, 2008•
What do “Subterranean Homesick Blues”, “Pump It Up”, “It's the End of the World as We Know it (and I Feel Fine)”, and (that horrible song by Billy Joel) “We Didn't Start the Fire” all have in common? They are all sprouts of the original rock ‘n’ rap, rhyming complaint song from 1956
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by William I. Lengeman III•January 16, 2008•
Like many people who came of age in the ‘70s, my first exposure to Lou Reed's music was by way of the perversions and doo-da-dooing colored girls that populated the sleazy world of “Walk on the Wild Side.” I was 10-years-old when the song first hit the airwaves and was more concerned with the likes of the Partridge Family than with the harder stuff.
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