Email Author Tim Kenneally

1995 Stories by Tim Kenneally

• Recordings

  published December 6, 1995

  NoMeansNo The Worldhood of the World (As Such) (Alternative Tentacles) Victoria, British Columbia, residents NoMeansNo are... More >>

• Recordings

  published November 22, 1995

  Various Artists Help (Go!/War Child/London) Those of us who stayed awake during fifth-grade English class no doubt remember... More >>

• Recordings

  published November 15, 1995

  The Magnetic Fields Get Lost (Merge) Get Lost is the perfect title for this record, fusing Stephin Merritt's cranky,... More >>

• Recordings

  published October 25, 1995

  Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 Wormed by Leonard (Thwart) Taking titular inspiration from Warmed by Love -- a book of poetry... More >>

• Recordings

  published October 4, 1995

  Sonic Youth Washing Machine (DGC) We probably owe Sonic Youth a lot more than we realize. At the very least, the band... More >>

• Recordings

  published September 20, 1995

  The Presidents of the United States of America The Presidents of the United States of America (Columbia) Talk about your party... More >>

• Recordings

  published September 6, 1995

  Alice Donut Pure Acid Park (Alternative Tentacles) Vocalist Tomas Antona and his Alice Donut cohorts have never made... More >>

• The 12 Steps

  published August 23, 1995

  Are you an alcoholic? Do you lose time from work due to drinking? A quavering apprehension creeps into the voice of Shane MacGowan's... More >>

• Recordings

  published August 23, 1995

  John Coltrane The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (Rhino/Atlantic) I'm a bit amazed at my own reaction... More >>

• Recordings

  published August 16, 1995

  Dirty Three Dirty Three (Touch and Go) Displaying a reticence that barely conceals a fluid sense of dynamics, Dirty Three... More >>

• Recordings

  published August 2, 1995

  Guru and Various Artists Jazzmatazz Volume II: The New Reality (Chrysalis/EMI) When Guru, the lyrical half of the hip-hop duo... More >>

• Recordings

  published July 26, 1995

  Naughty by Nature Poverty's Paradise (Tommy Boy) If you lived in New York four summers ago, you might have believed that all... More >>

• Recordings

  published July 5, 1995

  Red Aunts #1 Chicken (Epitaph) Three hundred words on #1 Chicken? Subtitled "14 Songs, 23 Minutes," there ain't even 300 words... More >>

• The Crazy Train

  published June 21, 1995

  Mental instability has always held a special place in rock music, a genre that prides itself (at one time validly) on its outsider status and... More >>

• Recordings

  published June 21, 1995

  Sixteen Deluxe Backfeedmagnetbabe (Trance Syndicate) Sixteen reasons I like Deluxe: 1. They make you want to dig out your... More >>

• Recordings

  published June 14, 1995

  Esquivel Music From a Sparkling Planet (Bar/None) A cocktail nation looking for a forefather to emulate could do no better than... More >>

• Signed, Sealed and Misdelivered

  published May 17, 1995

  It's the brass ring on the musical merry-go-round: The ever-elusive major-label contract. You read it in the local "musician wanted" ads all the... More >>

• Venus' Flytrap

  published May 17, 1995

  A rose is a rose is a rose, and by any other name would still smell as sweet, we're told. But in the case of Flower S.F., such succinctness... More >>

• Recordings

  published May 17, 1995

  Engine 88 Clean Your Room (Caroline) It must be written in some Music 101 textbook that good rock and roll should devote at... More >>

• Delusions of Banjer

  published April 26, 1995

  "If I'm not mistaken, you're calling from San Francisco, right?" asks Bad Livers' bassist Mark Rubin when I ring him up. "Okay, this is... More >>

• Samples

  published March 15, 1995

  Thug Life Nearly a year after he was charged with a shooting death in L.A., T-Bone of Da Lench Mob was acquitted of murder charges last week.... More >>

• Kitschy cool

  published February 22, 1995

  In these eco-conscious '90s, old newspapers and empty Jolt cans aren't the only things being recycled. Beyond blue bins and redemption centers --... More >>