Award-winning critic Barry Walters is a longtime contributor to Rolling Stone, Spin, the Village Voice, and many other publications. His interview with Prince alumni Wendy & Lisa was included in Da Capo’s Best Music Writing of 2010, and his lectures on music video have appeared in numerous film festivals. Currently working on his first book, he’s asked probing personal questions of Noel Gallagher, Johnny Rotten, and Madonna, and has lived to tell the tale.
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Completed the same month Madonna and Sean Penn filed for divorce, 1989… more »
The artistic evolution of Ryan McPhun — now the Ruby Suns’ so… more »
You could write off Carletta Sue Kay — aka San Francisco singer-son… more »
Hip-hop and violins — those that haven’t been sampled or scra… more »
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The moment rock graduated from the single to the long-playing format, peo… more »
Is she totally out-of-control, or totally calculated? These are the quest… more »
When Swedish singer-songwriter Sarah Assbring last made a record, 2009… more »
Sex and drugs have long been both an implicit and explicit topic of R… more »
When a band as big as Aerosmith gets back together after yet another roun… more »
Few bands have ever proven both their survival and evolutionary skills li… more »
As suggested by its striking cover art, The Haunted Man is the moment whe… more »
Yes, there is dubstep on Muse’s sixth album. Yes, there are fewer p… more »
It’s a miracle or something like it that John Cale is still alive, … more »
Nearly everything about Green Day – their Berkeley-to-Broadway traj… more »
Every hard-rock and metal band worth its weight pushes the line of good t… more »
Following the self-consciously arty impulses of 2007′s All Hour Cym… more »
As a live album, Cut the World, is, like most things by or about Antony a… more »
Combining Can’s 1978 disc Out of Reach, with its 1979 album Can aka… more »
Omaha’s Icky Blossoms make indie dance-rock graced with the nervy d… more »
As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »
