Da Capo Best Music Writing 2003 The Year's Finest Writing On Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country & More

by Groening, Matt; Bresnick, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780306812361
• ISBN10: 0306812363
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-09
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

Matt Groening returns to his music journalism roots in the fourth volume of Da Capo's highly acclaimed series

Author Biography

Matt Groening, who began his career as a rock critic, changed television forever when he brought animation back to prime time with the immortal nuclear family The Simpsons. He is also creator and executive producer of the FOX animated series Futurama, as well as the comics Life in Hell and Akbar and Jeff. He lives in Los Angeles.

Paul Bresnick is a literary agent and editor who has edited many award-winning music books. He lives in New York City and East Hampton.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
by Matt Groening
BILL TUOMALA	1	(8)
Best Band in the Land
Exiled on Main Street
TERRY MODERMOTT	9	(26)
Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics
Los Angeles Magazine
LYNN HIRSCHBERG	35	(21)
Who's That Girl?
New York Times
PAUL TOUGH	56	(10)
City Still Breathing: Listening to the Weakerthans
Geist
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN	66	(8)
Viva Morrissey!
Spin
LAWRENCE JOSEPH	74	(15)
The Music Is: The Deep Roots of Detroit R&B
Tin House
ELIZABETH GILBERT	89	(18)
Play it Like Your Hair's On Fire
GQ
MICHAEL HALL	107	(15)
Mack McCormick Still Has the Blues
Texas Monthly
PAUL BESTON	122	(4)
Life and Death on "The Late Show"
American Spectator
EDITORS OF THE ONION	126	(2)
"37 Record-Store Clerks Feared Dead in Yo La Tengo Concert Disaster"
The Onion
MICHAEL COCHRAN	128	(8)
Exhuming the Legend of Washington Phillips
Austin-American Statesman
PHILIP GOUREVITCH	136	(36)
Mr. Brown
New Yorker
GARY GIDDENS	172	(32)
Post-war Jazz: An Arbitrary Road Map
Village Voice
MITCH MYERS	204	(11)
A Lone Star State of Mind
Magnet
WIL S. HYLTON	215	(5)
The Master of Everything (and Nothing at All)
Esquire
G. BEATO	220	(11)
Not Bad for a White Girl
Spin
SUSAN ORLEAN	231	(11)
The Congo Sound
New Yorker
GREIL MARCUS	242	(10)
In the Secret Country: Walter Mosely, Doo-Wop, and '50's L.A.
Los Angeles Magazine
JAY MCINERNEY	252	(21)
White Man at the Door
New Yorker
MARK SINKER	273	(4)
Math Destruction
Village Voice
ELVIS COSTELLO	277	(12)
Rocking Around the Clock
Vanity Fair
Other Notable Essays of 2002	289	(2)
List of Contributors	291	(4)
Credits	295