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After 1995, when New York Newsday closed and I accepted a buyout, I stayed away from writing about music for about five years. I’d been a food writer my last year at Newsday. I wrote a freelance food column for the Newark Star-Ledger (”In S...
JUNGLE FEVER: A STEVIE WONDER/SPIKE LEE JOINT
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Flipper Purify is going to hell.
In Spike Lee’s “Jungle Fever,” Purify (Wesley Snipes) walks crack-vial littered streets searching for his dope-fiend brother. He finds him at a crack house the size of Madison Square Garden,...
Courtney Barnett: Creature of Habit
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Well, this is shocking. I, Wayne Robins, the human being, your Critical Conditions correspondent, was at my desk this morning to pull up a review I had previously done for PS Audio’s online magazine Copper, about the talented...
Goats Head Soup Mystery Review
Well, a lot of weird stuff can happen when you’re an ambitious 23 year old rock critic. Like many people, I occasionally inserted printouts of album reviews inside the sleeves of an album. This one spilled out the other day. A few notable e...
Licensed To Ill
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Dear Friends, followers, likers, subscribers, et alia
I don’t like being sick, and I don’t like writing about current medical issues. Some of my favorite writers here do write openly about their health, and I love them for i...
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I'm a longtime music journalist and critic. Creem, the Village Voice, and Newsday have been main stops on the journey. I retired from teaching at St. John's University in May 2024, and was named to the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2020.
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