Email Author Matt Golosinski

1995 Stories by Matt Golosinski

• Survey Says...

  published December 28, 1995

  ... And Who Could Forget About These Great Hits? (The Ten Best Albums of 1995) 1. P.J. Harvey To Bring You My Love ... More >>

• Recordings

  published December 14, 1995

  Melissa Etheridge Your Little Secret (Island) What's almost better than a box of sugar cereal with a prize at the bottom?... More >>

• Desert Discs

  published November 30, 1995

  The Slims Slow Road to Hell (Mainliner Music) Slims drummer Scott Seymann sports a "London Calling" tee shirt in this CD's... More >>

• Recordings

  published November 30, 1995

  The Amps Pacer (4AD) It's easy to look back on Kim Deal's checkered musical past and feel pity mixedwith admiration: She's... More >>

• Recordings

  published November 23, 1995

  Green Day Insomniac (Sire) I admit it: I was a punk rocker in the early '80s. I had my shoulder dislocated in the pit at a... More >>

• Freak Magnate

  published November 23, 1995

  Don't expect any clowns at the Jim Rose Circus. Ninjas with machetes, maybe, but no clowns. Trained poodles? Try maggots and scorpions. And, in... More >>

• Recordings

  published November 16, 1995

  P.M. Dawn Jesus Wept (Gee Street) Maybe it says something about rap's creative limitations that so many of its top artists... More >>

• Achtung, Baby!

  published November 2, 1995

  The members of KMFDM think they're funny guys--despite the leather and the Hamburg accents so guttural they make Schwarzenegger sound like a... More >>

• Recordings

  published October 26, 1995

  Meat Puppets No Joke! (London) Immediately after hearing this set's chipper "Taste of the Sun" on the radio for the first time, I... More >>

• HARD-KNOCK MANLOCAL LEGEND HANS OLSON IS A MASTER OF THE BLUES--BUT WILL HE EVER GET CONTROL OF HIS DESTINY?

  published October 5, 1995

  Dressed completely in black and sporting tinted shades that never come off, Hans Olson looks like the understudy for Death in a Bergman... More >>

• SLACKER'S COUGHSOUL COUGHING GETS ILL WITH HIP-HOP FOR HEPCATS

  published September 28, 1995

  When most slackers get sick, they lie in bed hoping for codeine. Soul Coughing spits up a song. "Super Bon Bon," for example, was spawned by an... More >>

• APOCALYPSE YOWTHE JESUS LIZARD, LOLLAPALOOZA'S SURPRISE DARLING, STICKS OUT ITS TONGUE AND GOES, "ARRRGH"

  published August 10, 1995

  The Jesus Lizard's David Yow moans, yells, squeals and sweats his way through a concert, surfing the mosh pit in a violent effort to prove that,... More >>

• MISCELLANEOUS RECORDINGS

  published July 27, 1995

  Foo Fighters Foo Fighters (Roswell/Capitol) "Now what?" God, how Dave Grohl must have grown to loathe that query over... More >>

• AGGRESSION SESSIONIT'S GLOVES OFF FOR KUKQ "ANTIFEST"

  published July 27, 1995

  With "alternative" music festivals proliferating like intestinal bacteria, Saturday's "KUKQ Fest 1995" is trying to be something different: "A... More >>

• RECORDINGS:

  published July 20, 1995

  Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers Free Like We Want 2 B (Elektra) Winning a Grammy is the artistic equivalent of contracting a... More >>

• MUSICAL CHAIRTEMPE'S BRICK CHAIR PRACTICES SINCERITY THROUGH ANGST

  published June 29, 1995

  Not too long ago, Tempe angst-rock quartet Brick Chair bought a van from an old guy in a Glendale trailer park. Big deal, you say. But wait a... More >>

• SEE MOBY SPOUTTECHNO KING MOBY WANTS TO SWAY MORE THAN HIPS WITH HIS MUSIC--HE'S AFTER MINDS, TOO

  published June 15, 1995

  Techno composer Moby is a hypocrite, but he's the first to admit it. "Everything I do is contradiction, and it's laden with hypocrisy," says the... More >>

• POST-MODERN LOVERJONATHAN RICHMAN HELPS PUT GUTS INTO PUNK, BUT HE'D RATHER SING FROM HIS HEART

  published June 1, 1995

  Rock 'n' roll often breeds absurdity. Artists who won't play a show unless the backstage M&Ms are the right color or drummers whose hobby is... More >>