Christopher R. Weingarten is a freelance music writer living in Brooklyn, whose work can currently be seen in The Village Voice, Spin, Revolver, NYLON, and much more. His first book, a study of Public Enemy’s It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, is out now via Continuum. He is also the shadowy figure behind hipsterpuppies.tumblr.com and the author of its corresponding book, via NAL/Penguin.
It was actually Edgard Varèse who said, “The present-day compo… more »
Enter The Wu-Tang is the Velvet Underground & Nico of ’90s hip… more »
Enter The Wu-Tang is the Velvet Underground & Nico of ’90s hip… more »
In 1993, Arrested Development was the angel on hip-hop’s shoulder; … more »
On In New York, Zappa proves his ingenious musical improvisations are a p… more »
Frank Zappa focused most of his final years on art music, working with Pi… more »
One of three double albums chronicling Zappa’s final tour, Make A J… more »
Zappaphiles bemoaned Frank’s post-”Yellow Snow” obsessi… more »
Zappa’s equally essential 1973 album Over-Nite Sensation was an une… more »
A wheelchair-bound Frank Zappa, recovering from a broken leg and fracture… more »
As the darkly comic evisceration victim on the cover would imply, Weasels… more »
His first record sans Mothers (save the hyper-experimental tape-manipulat… more »
Distancing himself from the so-called “freaks” associated wit… more »
Frank Zappa quarantined his catchier numbers from his neuron-frying exper… more »
To procure the funds to release Freak Out! intact, Frank Zappa took a cut… more »
On their fourth album, environmentally minded spirit-grinders Wolves in t… more »
Over the course of seven albums, San Francisco space cowboys Barn Owl hav… more »
It’s been four years since Chicago hip-hop duo Cool Kids debuted in… more »
It’s been four years since Chicago hip-hop duo Cool Kids debuted in… more »
As the frontman of Hüsker Dü and alterna-heroes Sugar, Bob Moul… more »
A revealing peek inside the ecstasy and agony of an American punk rock le… more »
The second commercial release from the Odd Future collective is everythin… more »
The nervous sound of Iceage is what happens when teenage brooding rubs ag… more »
The fifth album from bubble-punk gnashers the Thermals is a perfect pop g… 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 »
