Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006

by Gaitskill, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780306814990
• ISBN10: 0306814994
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-23
• Publisher: Da Capo Pr

Summary

Whether you count yourself a member of the hip-hop nation, bang your head yearly at Ozzfest, wear a cowboy hat, or dance to the top twenty, you're sure to find something to love inDa Capo Best Music Writing 2006. Gathering a rich array of writing by music journalists, novelists, and scribes from a wide range of sources-highbrow literary quarterlies to 'zines and blogs--Da Capo Best Music Writingis a multi-voiced snapshot of the year in music writing that, like the music it illuminates, is every bit as thrilling as it is revealing.

Author Biography

Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novel Veronica, a finalist for the National Book Award and one of the New York Times' top five novels of the year. She is the author of Because They Wanted To, which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1998. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (1993), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998). Her story "Secretary" was the basis for the film of the same name. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she teaches creative writing at Syracuse University. She lives in New York. Daphne Carr is the author of Pretty Hate Machine, and her work appears regularly in the Associated Press, Village Voice, Chicago Tribune, and other publications. She lives in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
Mary Gaitskill
Greil Marcus	1	(8)
Stories of a Bad Song
Threepenny Review
Alex Ross	9	(27)
Doctor Atomic ``Countdown''
The New Yorker
Mike McGuirk
Rush, Hemispheres	35	(38)
Charlie Rich, Behind Closed Doors	73	(5)
Ted Nugent, Cat Scratch Fever	78	(11)
Kylie Minogue, I Believe in You	89	(19)
Accept, Balls to the Wall	108	(131)
Frosty, Liquor Drink	239	(46)
Iron Maiden, Number of the Beast	285	(9)
Boredoms, Super Ae	294	(5)
Kraftwerk, Man-Machine	299	(6)
Dream Theater, Octavarium	305
Rhapsody
Robert Wheaton	36	(14)
London Calling---For Congo, Colombo, Sri Lanka . . .
PopMatters
Jon Caramanica	50	(8)
Ghetto Gospel
XXL Magazine
Elizabeth Mendez Berry	58	(9)
Love Hurts
Vibe
Charles Michener	67	(7)
Going Bonkers at the Opera: Glimmerglass Flirts with Chaos
New York Observer
Ann Powers	74	(11)
Crazy Is as Crazy Does
eMusic
Miss AMP
Kevin Blechdom	79	(6)
Plan B Magazine
Kimberly Chun	85	(5)
Touched by a Woman: Dolly Parton Sings `bout Peace, Love & Understanding
Creative Loafing
Frank Kogan	90	(2)
Frank Kogan's Country Music Critics' Ballot 2005 (excerpt)
I Love Music (ilxor.com)
John Biguenet	92	(8)
The DeZurik Sisters: Two Farm Girls Who Yodeled Their Way to the Grand Ole Opry
The Oxford American
Katy St. Clair	100	(9)
A Very Special Concert: The Enduring Bond Between Huey Lewis and the Developmentally Disabled
SF Weekly
Nick Weidenfeld	109	(6)
Dying in the Al Gore Suite
The Fader
Tom Ewing	115	(4)
The Beatles----``Eleanor Rigby''/``Yellow Submarine'' (Reached No. 1 on 20th August 1966)
Popular (http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/)
Geoffrey O'Brien	119	(13)
``Will You Love Me Tomorrow''
The New York Review of Books
Geoff Boucher	132	(7)
Ex-Door Lighting Their Ire
Los Angeles Times
Dave Tompkins	139	(9)
Permission to `Land
Scratch Magazine
Kevin Whitehead	148	(4)
Chops: Upstairs, Downstairs with Art Tatum (and Monk)
eMusic
Robert Christgau	152	(8)
The First Lady of Song
The Nation
Anne Midgette	160	(9)
The End of The Great Big American Voice
New York Times
Bill Friskics-Warren	169	(15)
Bettye LaVette
No Depression
Susan Alcorn	184	(14)
The Road, the Radio, and the Full Moon
Counterpunch
John Jeremiah Sullivan	198	(33)
Upon This Rock
GQ
Peter Relic	231	(9)
The Return
XXL Magazine
David Thorpe	240	(13)
Thorpe's Notes on R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet
SomethingAwful.com
Raquel Cepeda	253	(7)
Riddims by the Reggaeton: Puerto Rico's hip-hop hybrid takes over New York
Village Voice
Wayne Marshall	260	(12)
we use so many snares
wayne&wax
Andrew Hultkrans	272	(3)
Sweat and Lowdown
Artforum
J. Edward Keyes	275	(11)
Where's the Party? 13 Hours with the Next Franz Ferdinand
DIW Magazine
David Marchese	286	(9)
High On Fire
PopMatters
Monica Kendrick	295	(5)
Bang the Head Slowly: Uncomfortable, Unemotional, Isolating Metal at a Snail's Pace
Chicago Reader
Will Hermes (As Robert Barbara)	300	(6)
Vegetarian militancy, sound magick, B&D, and the most astonishing live show of my life
Loose Strife (http://loosestrife.blogspot.com)
Moustafa Bayoumi	306	(9)
Disco Inferno
The Nation
Other Notable Essays of 2005	315	(4)
List of Contributors	319	(8)
Credits	327