Useful Noise
Keith HarrisAt least it's not a podcast
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Some Ends of Some Years
Ah, the year-end essay, every fledgling critic’s dream. My first published attempt here is a little less shapely than I’d like, but it does touch on the cultural issues that music brushed against at the end of the century. Whatever you thou...
Back in the Day
I don’t mourn dead musicians as deeply as some folks do. I never really knew them, after all, and I’ll always have their music. But losing Dave Jolicoeur—De La Soul’s Trugoy—at 54 hit me harder than any premature death since Adam Yauch kick...
The Malkmusiad
For a snapshot of how much white indie fans of the ’90s could project onto Pavement, and, more specifically, onto Stephen Malkmus, we start with a 1999 piece on Terror Twilight I’m suitably ambivalent about. The few quotes were all I could...
Local Heroes
Unlike some music journalists, I didn’t get into the game to interview musicians. I never even considered myself a journalist—I wanted to be a rock critic, as lots of us called ourselves then. I remember how excited I was to write those two...
The Pulse Years
Things happened fast for your ol’ buddy Keith in 1998. Three months after moving jobless to Minneapolis, I was freelancing regularly for City Pages. By April I was sober. And before the end of the year I was the music editor of a scrappy li...
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