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TAPES IN THE MAIL, VOL. III

SCREED

By Serene Dominic, Peter Gilstrap and David Koen
May 4, 1994

You've waited four long weeks for this, I know you have. Yes, it's time again for more local reviews, kids. Get em while they're hot. By the way, I don't know if we're running out of bands that actually have tapes or folks just aren't sending anything in because they've...
NKOTB

IF YOU KNOW WHAT THAT STANDS FOR, YOU'RE A 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL. OR ARE YOU?

By David Koen
Apr 20, 1994

Consider the almost surreal hyperbole the Columbia Records biography spews about New Kids on the Block's latest album: The group's members, it reads, "have matured . . . with a razor-sharp musical direction--and a street-savvy edge to their still irresistible sound." It goes on to say, "NKOTB is into [sic]...
BOXING YOUR EARS

IF YOU'VE GOT CASH IN YOUR WALLET AND TIME ON YOUR HANDS, BOXED SETS ARE FOR YOU

By Peter Gilstrap, Ted Simons, David Koen, Serene Dominic and Dave McElfresh
Dec 15, 1993

Good things come in small packages, as the saying goes, but at Christmastime, big packages look a whole lot better under a tree than little ones do. Back in the old days, when Santa left a 12x12 LP, it was a mouth-watering sight the next morning. Sure, CDs may sound...
DRE MATTER

HIS HOME AND PERSONAL LIKE SMOLDER, AND DR. DRE STILL PLAYS WITH FIRE

By David Koen
Oct 20, 1993

The rules of music promotion force stars to help sell their products by declaring each new album to be a) a work of genius, or b) different from anything they've done before. Both are malarkey--but time-tested, effective malarkey--concocted to make record buyers feel better about paying for something their favorite...
WHY DO YOU THINK THEY CALL IT DOPE?

HIP-HOP IS GOING TO POT. LITERALLY.

By David Koen
Sep 15, 1993

Without drugs, there'd be no such thing as popular music. Virtually every major form of tonal exploration in this country has gotten a good measure of spunk from a particular drug of choice--bluegrass and corn liquor, folk and caffeine, techno and ecstasy, jazz and heroin, reggae and pot, rock and...

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