Added on April 30, 2012
Wallace Wylie
Bob Dylan , Chuck Berry , Class , David Thomas , Elvis Presley , Howlin' Wolf , Mark E Smith , Muddy Waters , Oprah Winfrey , Pere Ubu , Race , race music , Simon Reynolds , The Animals , The Beatles , The Fall , The Kinks , The Rolling Stones , Them , Totally Wired , Wallace Wylie
The fantasy world that David Thomas inhabits reeks of privilege and conceit. Perhaps I expected a bit more intelligence, a bit more individuality, a bit more adventurousness to his thinking. Then again, he is a white middle-class American male. We can’t expect too much.
Added on January 31, 2011
Everett True
Almost Famous , Brighton , California , Chuck Berry , Courtney Love , Emma Anderson , Facebook , Greil Marcus , Jonathan Franzen , knitting , Lesley Rankine , Lester Bangs , Lush , Meatmen , Miranda Sawyer , music press , Music Writing , Oprah Winfrey , Pauline Kael , Pitchfork , punk rock , sexism etc , Smash Hits , The Edge , The Stone Roses , The Wire
Imagine if the music critic in Almost Famous had been female. Any chance at all she wouldn’t have been portrayed as a groupie?
