Results for The Faction

  • Royalty Battle Royale Round Two

    by Jason ThomasMay 28, 2008Comments (0)

    Another battle has touched off in Washington DC between different facets of the music industry over royalty rates, again with the additional impetus (read more)

  • Wilco: A Ghost is Born

    by David MacFadden-ElliottApril 16, 2008Comments (7)

    When A Ghost is Born was released, the tendency of critics was, naturally, to compare it to Wilco’s previous effort, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002), the mythic record that was sold twice (read more)

  • The Golden Road: A Report on San Francisco

    by Paul WilliamsFebruary 27, 2008Comments (5)

    But San Francisco—the Fillmore, the Avalon, the Trips Festivals, the Diggers, Owsley’s acid, Haight Street and Ashbury and Masonic and Golden Gate Park, the Straight Theater, Herb Caen, the Barb, the communication company—these have been and are and will be the environment (read more)

  • False Idols: Star Search vs. American Idol

    by Bob HillFebruary 20, 2008Comments (9)

    How did we get here? I mean, how did we get to a point where a glorified karaoke contest captivates the American public to the tune of 30 million viewers a week? Where we crown the new king or queen of pop without ever hearing them perform a song they wrote themselves? What ever happened to the days when silencing a sub-par singer was as simple as banging a gong? (read more)

  • Celtic Punks: The Pogues vs. Dropkick Murphys

    by Bob HillFebruary 6, 2008Comments (20)

    It’s 2008 now, and by all reasonable estimates, Shane MacGowan should be dead. But Shane MacGowan is not dead, nor is he irrelevant. In fact, the Pogues are enjoying one last hurrah, despite the fact that they haven’t recorded any new material with MacGowan in over 18 years, that there are no immediate plans to return to the studio (read more)