Email Author Lawrence Kay

2000 Stories by Lawrence Kay

• Return to Hicksville

  published December 20, 2000

  "How can I miss you when you won't go away?" asks the catchy chorus to one of acoustic prankster Dan Hicks' most sardonic love songs, recorded way... More >>

• Various Artists

  published December 13, 2000

  One of the strangest things about Ethiopian pop music is how little was ever recorded, and how easy it now is for you -- yes, you -- to hear the... More >>

• Johnny Cash; Merle Haggard

  published November 22, 2000

  In rock and R&B, there's an obvious premium paid on youthfulness, and an almost reflexive disdain for old coots who keep in the game too long.... More >>

• The 6ths

  published November 1, 2000

  By all accounts, Magnetic Fields main man Stephin Merritt is indie pop's ultimate renaissance man -- Irving Berlin, Leonard Cohen, and the Human... More >>

• Digging Up Roots

  published October 11, 2000

  Back in 1960, when he put out the first record on his tiny Arhoolie record label,... More >>

• Tom Lehrer

  published October 11, 2000

  Tom Lehrer may be the most influential musical satirist of the past century. He was certainly one of the funniest, and one of the most widely... More >>

• Caetano Veloso Singles

  published August 16, 2000

  In 1967, after 60 years of samba, a decade of bossa nova, and 36 months of military dictatorship, Brazilian pop culture erupted with its first... More >>