Articles Tagged with #reviews
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Albums of the Year
The Top 10 Albums of 1987
by Andrew WomackBecause year-end album lists shouldn’t happen just once a year. In this installment: The lists and timeline converge.
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Albums of the Year
The Top 10 Albums of 2007
by Andrew WomackIn the past 12 months thousands of albums were released, but there are only 10 you’ll need to remember.
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Profiles
Hail Ira
by Kevin GuilfoileRosemary’s Baby author Ira Levin died this week—and it wasn’t a lousy book review that killed him.
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Profiles
Our Champion
by Clay RisenWhen the New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp died recently from lung cancer, America lost one of its most riveting writers—one of the best critics we’ve ever had, and quite possibly among the worst.
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Albums of the Year
The Top 10 Albums of 1986
by Andrew WomackEmptying out a storage space in Houston means judging sentimental value against what fits in the car.
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Albums of the Year
The Top 10 Albums of 1985
by Andrew WomackEven though it wasn’t an election year, in 1985 Alex P. Keaton could have run for president—and won.
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Albums of the Year
The Top 10 Albums of 1984
by Andrew WomackIt was no Orwellian nightmare; to have nightmares you need to sleep, and you can’t sleep when you lay awake terrified about nuclear war.
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Albums of the Year
The Top 10 Albums of 1983
by Andrew WomackBecause album lists shouldn’t happen only once a year. In this installment: The New Wave was drying up and the New Romantics were taking hold. But tell that to a Cub Scout in 1983 and you’ll get a blank stare.
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Albums of the Year
The Top 10 Albums of 1982
by Andrew WomackMTV was shaking up the airwaves, but if it was happening during an episode of Diff’rent Strokes. Ten favorite albums from the year the ‘80s really began.
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Albums of the Year
The Top 10 Albums of 1981
by Andrew WomackBecause album lists shouldn’t happen only once a year. In this installment: Iran’s taking hostages, Pat Sajak’s still on the air, and all of a sudden 1981 doesn’t feel like so long ago.
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Spoofs & Satire
SXSW 2007: The Very First Review
by Sarah HepolaThe South by Southwest Music Festival is a never-ending stream of bands, booze, and laminates that barrels through Austin, Texas, each spring. Just because you’re not going doesn’t mean you can’t review it.
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Albums of the Year
The Top 10 Albums of 1980
by Andrew WomackBecause album lists shouldn’t happen only once a year. In this installment: The dawn of a new decade saw punk rock fading away, or at least saving up to buy a synthesizer.