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• Rolling Stone Oldham: Talented, Insulting, Outrageous

  by Keith Altham•July 23, 2008•Comments (0)

  Andrew Oldham is egotistical, talented, insulting, outrageous, and likeable almost in spite of himself. He manages the world's number two group, owns his own record company, produces discs, writes songs, sleeve notes, and poetry, and publishes the Beach Boys' music in Britain. In the hip vocabulary of pop music they say he is "happening." Perhaps Mama Cass stressed (read more)

• Paul Weller

  by David MacFadden-Elliott•July 23, 2008•Comments (0)

  "the climax caps a record that turns out having as much to do with nature as sleep" (read more)

• Beck

  by David MacFadden-Elliott•July 16, 2008•Comments (1)

  "a bummed-out alt-rock cousin of Gnarls Barkley with a coat of Beck atmospherics" (read more)

• Of Great and Mortal Men

  by Matt Gewolb•July 9, 2008•Comments (0)

  But Kiefer, Gerken, and Pitcher are the stars of the show—imparting history lessons and political commentary along with jangling guitars and killer hooks. (read more)

• John Cale: Paradiso, Amsterdam

  by Chris Salewicz•July 9, 2008•Comments (2)

  For me, though, Cale's problem is that he's too much a part of that esoteric little Island Records bunch that takes in the cast of the June 1, 1974 album—Ayers, Nico, Eno, and all the others in the foothills of Art. And also, that he's a little too aware of his legend (I, for one, am not sure of the relevance of knowing whether or not he beats up his wife). He seems a little too self-consciously caught up in the persona of the Thinking Man's Rock Star, a little too much the Professional Poet. (read more)

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