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Bats

THE NATURAL CITY Consider the bat. Not the Louisville Slugger or the aluminum, but the winged one. The one that gets tangled in your ‘do, likes an occasional after-dinner drink, […]

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Sterling A. Brown

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF STERLING A. BROWN. (Harper & Row, $12.95): “Lemme be wid Casey Jones,” Sterling A. Brown wrote in the poem, “Odyssey of Big Boy,” Lemme be wid […]

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Johnny Cash

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►HUNG UP ON NARCISSISM The pretension only begins with the title of the new Sting LP, The Dream of the Blue Turtles. This was supposed […]

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Stanley Clarke

Hail space warriors You have come a long way Our flight for freedom has taken us through many arenas We have weapons and vessels but now I choose the sound […]

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George Clinton

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►HUNG UP ON NARCISSISM The pretension only begins with the title of the new Sting LP, The Dream of the Blue Turtles. This was supposed […]

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Bootsy Collins

“And one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you,” cautioned Nancy Sinatra, smiling and safely sexless, on the tube of my youth. On the radio too. […]

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Sam Cooke

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►PEARLS VS. SWEAT On the back of her new album, Eaten Alive, Diana Ross can be seen biting a string of pearls while hugging a […]

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Defunkt

Defunkt Hannibal 1301 by Spottswood Erving These days, serious jazz cats who decide to play dance music are—take themselves to be—as rebellious and avant-garde as the ones who decided not […]

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Dire Straits

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►CORN IN THE U.S.A. Last weekend’s scheduled Farm Aid jamboree brought to a boil what movies like Country, Places in the Heart and The River […]

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Bob Dylan

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►HUNG UP ON NARCISSISM The pretension only begins with the title of the new Sting LP, The Dream of the Blue Turtles. This was supposed […]

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Sheila E.

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►CORN IN THE U.S.A. Last weekend’s scheduled Farm Aid jamboree brought to a boil what movies like Country, Places in the Heart and The River […]

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Brian Ferry

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►HUNG UP ON NARCISSISM The pretension only begins with the title of the new Sting LP, The Dream of the Blue Turtles. This was supposed […]

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Football

As Howard says: “The Most Disappointing Team in the National Football League.” You assholes should be in a high school league, there you may even have a .500 record. You […]

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Herbie Hancock

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►PEARLS VS. SWEAT On the back of her new album, Eaten Alive, Diana Ross can be seen biting a string of pearls while hugging a […]

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Herbie Hancock (2)

Monster Columbia JC 36415 By Spottswood Erving Another gruesome pop disc from Hancock. This one plods on (thump) and on (thump) and on (thwack) with the overproduced gusto of a […]

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Industrial Robots

PERFORMING HOT, HEAVY, and hazardous tasks common to heavy industry (such as spray painting, welding, and machine-tool loading), American robots have slowly grown in number to over six thousand. But […]

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Keith Jarrett

Nude Ants ECM- 2-1171 by Spottswood Erving The Place: a pie-shaped slice of basement in the Big Apple, where one can hear the 7th Avenue subway rumble by during breaks. […]

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Waylon Jennings

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►HUNG UP ON NARCISSISM The pretension only begins with the title of the new Sting LP, The Dream of the Blue Turtles. This was supposed […]

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Kris Kristofferson

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►HUNG UP ON NARCISSISM The pretension only begins with the title of the new Sting LP, The Dream of the Blue Turtles. This was supposed […]

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Wynton Marsalis

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►THE INDULGENCE OF BEING EARNEST If you want to watch Sting’s girlfriend Trudie Styler give birth to his fourth child, by all means go see […]

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Michael McDonald

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►CORN IN THE U.S.A. Last weekend’s scheduled Farm Aid jamboree brought to a boil what movies like Country, Places in the Heart and The River […]

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John Cougar Mellencamp

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►CORN IN THE U.S.A. Last weekend’s scheduled Farm Aid jamboree brought to a boil what movies like Country, Places in the Heart and The River […]

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Joni Mitchell

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►TREADING WATER VS. SWIMMING The songwriting explosion of Stevie Wonder’s late adolescence and early adulthood gave us our finest modern pop standards, and his ability […]

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MoMA Disco

THE NATURAL CITY Valentine Goroshko, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, and Alexandr Kosolapov have offered to turn part of the Museum of Modern Art into a disco. Museum officials are unmoved by the […]

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Music Videos

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►VIDEO BLUES Music video is in a state of crisis according to Kevin Godley, who has directed the Police, Herbie Hancock and Frankie Goes to […]

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Oregon

Too much prettiness gives me the gout. When subjected to large doses of refined lyricism, tonal purity, and postcard melody, my ears swell up. And when they do the pain […]

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Oregon (2)

In Performance Elektra 9E-304 by Spottswood Erving At the start of the second disc of this live double LP, George Shultz, Oregon’s manager, asks the audience, “How do you like […]

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Diana Ross

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►PEARLS VS. SWEAT On the back of her new album, Eaten Alive, Diana Ross can be seen biting a string of pearls while hugging a […]

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Terje Rypdal

The ECM stereotype is firmly in place, and it reads this way: ECM is the home of the New Cool School, where producer Manfred Eicher plays the roles of President […]

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Devadip Carlos Santana

The Swing of Delight Columbia C236590 by Spottswood Erving Round, pure, golden, delicious: Santana’s guitar still sounds ripe for the picking, but that’s nothing new. Nor is his affiliation with […]

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Wayne Shorter

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►THE INDULGENCE OF BEING EARNEST If you want to watch Sting’s girlfriend Trudie Styler give birth to his fourth child, by all means go see […]

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Charlie Singleton

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►CORN IN THE U.S.A. Last weekend’s scheduled Farm Aid jamboree brought to a boil what movies like Country, Places in the Heart and The River […]

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Soccer

When the Cosmos have a party, it’s Chinaglia and Beckenbauer and the continentals in one corner, Tueart and the Brits in another, and Alberto and Marinho and the South Americans […]

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Sting

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►THE INDULGENCE OF BEING EARNEST If you want to watch Sting’s girlfriend Trudie Styler give birth to his fourth child, by all means go see […]

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Foday Musa Suso

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►PEARLS VS. SWEAT On the back of her new album, Eaten Alive, Diana Ross can be seen biting a string of pearls while hugging a […]

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Talking Heads

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►HUNG UP ON NARCISSISM The pretension only begins with the title of the new Sting LP, The Dream of the Blue Turtles. This was supposed […]

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Neil Young

MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►PEARLS VS. SWEAT On the back of her new album, Eaten Alive, Diana Ross can be seen biting a string of pearls while hugging a […]