1994
Music Reviews
Two albums from the Melvins in the same year. What have we done to deserve this blessing? Or is it?
Preppy In Pink
If you are a young female person in New York in 1994 and you are not wearing X-Girl, you are not cool. Does that hurt your feelings?
Date-rape Me, My Friend
This is a touchy subject, I know. Largely because everybody seems to think that at some point they have been given an adulterated drug.
Things Fall Apartheid
South Africa’s first apartheid-free presidential election is finally here, and to punctuate just how important this shit is, citizens have started a civil war so they can kill one another in its honor.
Move Over Cindy Crawford
Of course you recognize Jenny Shimizu from Steven Meisel’s ubiquitous new Calvin Klein CK One perfume ads that are covering magazines and billboards around the world.
The King Of Rave Graphics
If you’ve been to a dance party in the last four years, there’s a good chance you got the directions to the decrepit warehouse in the Western suburbs from one of Troy Innocent’s flyers.
Employees Of The Month
LISA CRYSTAL CARVERLisa has a band called Suckdog (well, technically, it’s more like a live opera of blood and nudity than an actual band) and is the creator of the hands-down best and most unique zine of the 1990s, Rollerderby</i...
A Rising Son
On July 8, 1994, North Korea’s Great Leader, Kim Il-sung, finally passed on to the great DMZ in the sky.
I Hate Myself and I Want to Die
Eight years ago, when Elizabeth Wurtzel began writing her memoir about being depressed at Harvard University, she wasn’t trying to be the poster child for glumness in America. But in the few months since her book has been out, that’s...