White Stripes, 'Elephant' (V2/Third Man Recordings)
In which the blues have a baby and the White Stripes call it art rock.
By Chuck Klosterman 06.30.03 3:00 AM
The White Stripes' Elephant is not a good record. It seems like one for the first eight songs, but then you get to a song called "The Hardest Button to Button." This is when you realize that Elephant is, in fact, a remarkably good record, quite possibly a great record, and certainly the sexiest divorce-rock album since Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville.
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Fitter Happier: Radiohead Return
For years, Radiohead have been known as cold, cutting artistes
who do everything--particularly interviews--the hard way. So why
are they now acting like a bunch of chatty, regular guys who simply
read lots of books and fear for our future?
By Chuck Klosterman; Spin Staff 06.29.03 3:00 AM
MEETING THOM IS EASY
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Cher Springs Eternal
Those who fail to understand the past are doomed to repeat it.
However, what if that's your goal? What if that's exactly what you
want? What if repeating the past--and then repeating it again
and again--is the only thing that makes you happy?
By Chuck Klosterman; Spin Staff 06.29.03 3:00 AM
Those who fail to understand the past are doomed to repeat it.
However, what if that's your goal? What if that's exactly what you
want? What if repeating the past--and then repeating it again
and again--is the only thing that makes you happy?
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Everclear, 'Slow Motion Daydream' (Capitol)
Art Alexakis in his own right.
By Chuck Klosterman 06.26.03 3:00 AM
If you were taking an undergraduate class on the music of Everclear, you would eventually come to two conclusions. The first is that you're probably never going to get a job. The second is that Art Alexakis is a storyteller in the tradition of Garrison Keillor, Spalding Gray, and that dude from Puddle of Mudd. The finest Everclear songs--"Santa Monica," "A.M.
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Ever Get the Feeling You've (Not) Been Cheated?
For one night at New York City's Madison Square Garden, the
reconstituted Guns N' Roses didn't suck--they rocked. The rocked
extremely hard. And then they were no more
By Chuck Klosterman; Spin Staff 06.26.03 3:00 AM
For one night at New York City's Madison Square Garden, the reconstituted Guns N' Roses didn't suck--they rocked. The rocked extremely hard. And then they were no more
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The Bjork Journals
A strange package arrived at the Spin office bearing a
book that may alter the course of history as we know it
By Chuck Klosterman; Spin Staff 06.26.03 3:00 AM
A strange package arrived at the Spin office bearing a
book that may alter the course of history as we know it
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