Email Author Ray Cummings

2008 Stories by Ray Cummings

• The Spinto Band

  published November 6, 2008

  There's nothing especially new about douchebag rock. The Rolling Stones, Lou Reed, and countless others have shoehorned the subgenre into the... More >>

• Spinto Win

  published October 30, 2008

  There's nothing especially new about douchebag rock; the Rolling Stones, Lou Reed, and countless others have shoehorned the subgenre into the... More >>

• Flobots

  published September 25, 2008

  Denver's Flobots seem intent on fomenting a populist revolution — or, at least, cashing in on the sugarcoated, romanticized,... More >>

• RZA (as Bobby Digital)

  published June 12, 2008

  Poor RZA. When the studio overlord produces a Wu-Tang Clan masterwork, it lands on RCA or Universal. Yet this chessboard fiend, martial-arts... More >>

• Jay-Z

  published April 10, 2008

  Try as you might, there's no knocking Jay-Z's hustle. So what if he's no longer president of Def Jam? So what if he's mostly irrelevant? So what... More >>

• Blitzen Trapper catches buzz through the fuzz

  published February 28, 2008

  Drum kits crash and explode; uncontrollable feedback erupts; random, screeching wraiths arrive and disappear with an equal lack of warning;... More >>

• Earley to Rise

  published February 28, 2008

  Drum sets crash and explode; uncontrollable feedback erupts; random, screeching wraiths arrive and disappear with an equal lack of warning;... More >>