Volume 16 Issue 10
The Frente! Backlash
It wasn’t long ago that Angie Hart was a sixteen year-old regular at our favourite Fitzroy live-music venue, the Punters Club. That was just prior to one of the bar tenders asking her to join his band, Frente!, at which very moment they began...
Lisa Lisa And Cult Loeb
We look to pop icons to find our opposite, to break us out of our identity shells. I listen to Iggy Stooge and am transformed into a tofu-and-heroin-driven insanity gymnast. In real life, I am none of those things. Through Iggy, for a few minutes or...
Girl Germs
I used to feel so lucky whenever I would spot a hair extension lying haphazardly on the sidewalk. It was better than a penny or a four-leaf clover.
Armageddon Party
As if there were ever any cause for doubt, Japan’s absolute cultural superiority over America is by 1994 a total given.
It’s Called The Internet
If you’re among the lucky 25 percent of Americans who own a PC in 1994, chances are you’ve graduated from futzing with crude drawings of human and animal genitals in Microsoft Paint.
The Heart & Soul Of A Band Called Pavement
Now, we all know lots of stuff about that dreamboat Stephen Malkmus. We get it. He’s a lyrical genius, a hugely underrated guitar player, and he’s real cute. We also know enough, for now, about Spiral Stairs, Malkmus’s partner in...