Music - Oct. 6, 2006
1979: an unbeatable year for music
OK, I've been a music fan for a long time now and I've lived through some good years for music and some lean ones. And I've dug back into the music of the past, too, so I feel pretty confident in deciding that 1979 was perhaps the pinnacle of pop music so far.
Tags: Clash, Jam, Buzzcocks, Elvis, 1979, new wave, reggae

Music - Feb. 19, 2002
Codebreaker finds the warp zone
No shoe-gazing at the Codebreaker show at The Social last weekend. It was all "Beach boys meet Kraftwerk at a Falco orgy," in the words of one awed spectator.
Tags: Codebreaker, Signaldrift, The Social, Thousandaires, Orbit, new wave