D. Strauss

Articles by D. Strauss

House of Scams and Fog, Or How to Break Into Your Own Apartment

by D. Strauss
Mar. 21st, 2004, 8:00 pm
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Manhattan is an island of unclean hands. We all hustle.  read more »

Dion: He Got Around

by D. Strauss
Jan. 21st, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Rock 'n' roll legend Dion DiMucci has long sent the message that he's a New York badass, either via  read more »

De La Soul, Kool Keith: Bitchers' Brew

by D. Strauss
Aug. 13th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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The flip side of a rapper boasting about himself is him bitching about the rest of the world.  read more »

Matt Suggs' Golden Ache … Eminem, Dre, Snoop Inhale That Teen Spirit

by Frank DiGiacomo and D. Strauss
Jul. 30th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Matt Suggs' Golden AcheIf the Kinks' Ray Davies sired a son with a dusky Mexican sorceress and raise  read more »

Peter Case Coulda, Shoulda … The Big Playback : Rap Nuggets

by Jim Windolf, D. Strauss and Rob Kemp
May. 7th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Peter Case Coulda, Shoulda …The Bottom Line was maybe half full when Peter Case walked onstage for  read more »

Apples' Moone Orbits Wilson's Sun

by D. Strauss
Apr. 23rd, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Listen to any album by the Apples in Stereo, and you'll know why the group's main man, Robert Schnei  read more »

Sonic Youth, Stereolab Fall Short … Lovano 52nd St. by Way of Cleveland

by D. Strauss and Joseph Hooper
Apr. 2nd, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Sonic Youth, Stereolab Fall ShortSick of wading through 70-minute compact discs with only 40 minutes  read more »

Pavement Grows Old, May Wear Trousers Rolled

by D. Strauss
May. 30th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Rumors have been orbiting the Internet (and burgers have been frying up at McDonald's!) that Pavemen  read more »

Reality, What a Concept! Kool Keith Gets a Release Date

by D. Strauss
May. 16th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Well, hip-hop isn't dead. It hasn't gone the way of rockabilly or prog-rock. Yet.  read more »

Pining for the Old Northwest: Sleater-Kinney, Built to Spill

by D. Strauss
Mar. 28th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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A trustworthy rule of thumb: Critics should never write critically about other critics.  read more »

Post-Rock Magician Jim O'RourkeDisappears Behind Smog

by D. Strauss
Mar. 7th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Why can't more musicians take pleasure in the anonymity that their art could potentially grant them?  read more »

Oh Là Là ! Cassius Rediscovers Le Boogie

by D. Strauss
Feb. 21st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Unfolding the CD booklet included in Paris Is Sleeping, Respect Is Burning, Volume 2 (Astralwerks),  read more »

You? Me? Us? Ugh. The Sad Tale of Jewel and Alanis

by D. Strauss
Jan. 17th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Alanis Morissette is no Biggie Smalls, mythologizing and embellishing on real-life experiences, tran  read more »

You? Me? Us? Ugh. The Sad Tale of Jewel and Alanis

by D. Strauss
Jan. 10th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Alanis Morissette is no Biggie Smalls, mythologizing and embellishing on real-life experiences, tran  read more »

Nostalgie de la Boo Boo Beat: Beastie Boys Do the Nasty

by D. Strauss
Jul. 26th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Way back in 1990, Our Year of the B-Boy, the soon-to-pass period when hip-hop was still golden and S  read more »

Sonic Youth Gets Back, Public Enemy Gets Gamy

by D. Strauss
Jun. 14th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Friedrich Nietzsche, the Greil Marcus of his day, once noted, "There are two tragedies in a man's li  read more »

Scum Rock in Excelsis: An Ode to Pussy Galore

by D. Strauss
Apr. 25th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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If you walk down Orchard Street these days, you see "Store for Rent" signs where, just a couple of m  read more »

Deep Shleep : Robert WyattPuts New Soul in Old Machine

by D. Strauss
Feb. 8th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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In all the talk about electronica in the last year, what has gotten lost in the major-label P.R.  read more »

Pet Sounds : It's Not Rock 'n' Roll, But We Like It

by D. Strauss
Dec. 7th, 1997, 8:00 pm
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What, in this most sophisticated of ages, constitutes the ingredients of rock music?  read more »

Stereolab Throws Rock Out the Window

by D. Strauss
Oct. 12th, 1997, 8:00 pm
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That buzzing that's been circling your ears of late isn't the slow disintegration of your social con  read more »