The Drudgery Report
Whether it's the Beatles, the Stones, Monty Python, or mad-cow
disease, it seems like the U.K. gets its unfair share of culture
before the U.S. does. Now, at least, the hit BBC sitcom The
Office will get the American audience it deserves when the
first season is released on DVD this month.
By Craig McLean; Spin Staff 11.05.03 4:00 AM
Whether it's the Beatles, the Stones, Monty Python, or mad-cow
disease, it seems like the U.K. gets its unfair share of culture
before the U.S. does. Now, at least, the hit BBC sitcom The
Office will get the American audience it deserves when the
first season is released on DVD this month.
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Quasi, 'Hot Shit' (Touch and Go) ; Mates of State, 'Team Boo' (Polyvinyl)
Rock couples, happy and otherwise.
By Mikael Wood 11.05.03 4:00 AM
Young America, you’ve found room in your hearts and ducats in your wallets for a zillion indistinguishable emo, neo-garage, and nu-metal bands, and they’ve repaid you handsomely. So how about pouring out a little love for two hardworking indie duos in which a romantically entangled man and woman play sweet-and-sour pop songs on an organ and a drum kit?
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A Break From the Norm
Remember Norm Macdonald? His sardonic delivery and O.J.
Simpson-bashing spiels were the highlight of Saturday Night
Live in the mid-'90s--until he got the boot when NBC exec (and
O.J. pal) Don Ohlmeyer deemed him unfunny. After a short-lived ABC
series and a couple of lame film comedies, he's back on the air: In
his surprisingly charming new show, A Minute With Stan
Hooper (premiering October 29 on Fox), Macdonald stars as a TV
commentator who leaves Manhattan for rural Wisconsin. But this
time, it's Macdonald who's the sober straight man and the eccentric
townsfolk around him--from the diner owner to the local cheese
magnate--who land the punch lines. In person, though, the caustic
Macdonald can still spar like a champ.
By Michael Kaplan; Spin Staff 11.05.03 4:00 AM
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The Rapture, 'Echoes' (Strummer/DFA/Universal) ; Various Artists, 'DFA Records Compilation #1' (DFA)
New York dance punks and the men behind their curtain.
By Douglas Wolk 11.05.03 4:00 AM
The not-so-secret heroes of dance music and hip-hop aren’t singers or rappers, but producers. Bold-faced beatmakers like Timbaland and the Neptunes have become stars in their own right, relegating their collaborators to the passenger seat of the Escalade.
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Iggy Pop: My Life in Music
All you really need to know about the way music affected a young
Iggy Pop is that he had the same reaction to both Link Wray and
John Coltrane: "What the fuck is this?" He's been inspiring the
same response in rock fans for more than three decades, first with
late-'60s/early-'70s punk legends the Stooges and later with his
influential solo albums. During a break in the recording of his
latest, Skull Ring, the indomitable Ig called from his Miami
Beach home raring to talk records: "Can I just take a deep breath
and start going?"
By Greg Milner; Spin Staff 11.03.03 4:00 AM
All you really need to know about the way music affected a young
Iggy Pop is that he had the same reaction to both Link Wray and
John Coltrane: "What the fuck is this?" He's been inspiring the
same response in rock fans for more than three decades, first with
late-'60s/early-'70s punk legends the Stooges and later with his
influential solo albums. During a break in the recording of his
latest, Skull Ring, the indomitable Ig called from his Miami
Beach home raring to talk records: "Can I just take a deep breath
and start going?"
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