Subject: Lester Bangs

• Geekus Musicus Maximus? Not me!

  March 14, 2008

• COVER ME

  HAVING SUNG EVERYONE ELSE'S SONGS, YO LA TENGO NOW WRITES ITS OWN

  April 8, 1992

• KISS IN OUR TIME

  THE WORLD'S GREATEST-- OR DUMBEST-- ROCK 'N' ROLL BAND REFUSES TO DIE. PUCKER UP, BUTTERCUP.

  October 20, 1994

• Letters

  September 26, 1996

• Recordings

  July 3, 1997

• Jonesing for Joan

  Trashman laments the decline of the American record store, and gets his Joan Jett fix

  June 10, 1999

• Recordings

  July 1, 1999

• Can You Feel the Silence?

  Clinton Heylin (Chicago Review Press)

  November 13, 2003

• Pitchfork Stays Sub-Par and Pretentious with New "Greatest Songs" Guide

  The horde of amateur music critics at Pitchfork Media has just crapped out a tome titled The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present (Fireside). The book purports to present "edifying essays" about the greatest 500 songs of the past thirty years and "all-new reviews" of songs by artists like Nirvana, Sonic Youth, U2, Metallica, Bruce Springsteen, and dozens of other stuff people have already heard and already have their own opinions about.

  December 9, 2008

• Critical Fatwa

  Cutting off Source

  August 4, 2005

• Bemoaning Mahowny

  If there was any life to this reality based drama, the filmmakers seem to have missed it.

  July 3, 2003

• Made With Love

  Rosanne Cash is the friend who will say, or sing, what you can't

  April 10, 2003

• In Their Own Write: Adventures in the Music Press

  Paul Gorman (Sanctuary Publishing)

  February 7, 2002

• Dogs' Life

  British punk-era warriors Slaughter and the Dogs regroup for a shot at the respect they never got

  January 31, 2002

• Life of Riley

  Sun Records' rock 'n' roll pioneer survives cult-hero status

  July 19, 2001

• Joey Ramone Leaves Home

  Paying respects to the man who unwittingly threw me a life raft as a kid

  April 26, 2001

• Critical Mass 2000

  Our panel of writers offer up their takes on the top discs of Y2K

  December 28, 2000

• Lou Reed

  Metal Machine Music (Buddha Original Masters Series)

  November 16, 2000

• Backstage Past

  Cameron Crowe's autobiographical Almost Famous is a classic rock gas

  September 21, 2000

• Britneymania!

  What would the face of rock history have looked like if the British Invasion had been a Britney Invasion instead?

  July 27, 2000

• Accidental Genius

  Bomp! Records celebrates 25 years of personal and creative craziness

  November 18, 1999

• OLD CALE IS FRESH CALE EX-VALVET UNDERGROUNDER HAS HIS VERY OWN ANTHOLOGY

  July 21, 1994

• Pirate Radio Gets a Tame U.S. Release, but We Still Love Rock 'N' Roll

  November 12, 2009