Essential Record Guide: Synth Pop
Dismissed by rock chauvinists as a trendy haven for fops, wimps,
By Jon Dolan 03.15.04 4:00 AM
Dismissed by rock chauvinists as a trendy haven for fops, wimps, geeks, and cyborgs and beloved by fops, wimps, geeks, and cyborgs as a computer-world improvement on punk, disco, and soul, synth pop has endured and mutated for more than two decades. Though largely a singles format in its '80s heyday, it's also produced some pretty brilliant albums
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We Got the Beat-down: Which rock stars are secretly tough?
By Marc Spitz 03.12.04 4:00 AM
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Welcome to the Jungle Gym
On a frigid December night in 2002, Guns N' Roses played what might
By Caryn Ganz 03.10.04 4:00 AM
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MARCH 19 To what does Michel Gondry attribute his
By Diane Vadino 03.09.04 4:00 AM
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Courtney Love, 'America's Sweetheart' (Virgin)
This time, Courtney Love really exposes herself.
By Charles Aaron 03.09.04 4:00 AM
Courtney Love is no healer -- of herself or anyone else. And that’s why, despite the nose job, boob lift, designer gowns, and kissy-poo swanning down red carpets, she’s no pop star. She’s incapable of telling us that everything’s gonna be all right. But when it comes to testifying to how everything’s totally, unbearably, exhilaratingly fucked-up beyond despair, she has few peers.
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Kicking Against the Pricks
If you played six degrees of separation with the current Detroit
By Chris Handyside 03.08.04 4:00 AM
If you played six degrees of separation with the current Detroit
rock scene, it would be a quick game. And if you played with the
Von Bondies–it would be a lightning round.
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