Unicorn Times
Unicorn Times was a free monthly paper published in Washington DC between 1973 and 1985. It covered all music genres from rock, jazz, blues and bluegrass to country, traditional folk, reggae, go-go ethnic and more, as well as film, theater, dance and art. Through interviews and reviews it covered national acts as well as local artists.
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Interview by Richard Harrington, Unicorn Times, September 1974
SOMEWHERE ALONG the line, guitarist Danny Gatton played in a group called Fat Chance. That name may have been appropriate for the gentle portliness of ...
Interview by Richard Harrington, Unicorn Times, June 1975
"I'VE BEEN doing what I'm doing for five years on records and for longer in my life," says Gil Scott-Heron, who seems to be approaching ...
Grin, Nils Lofgren: Nils Lofgren
Interview by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, September 1975
ON THE EVE of his upcoming nationwide tour, Nils Lofgren returned to his home turf August 16th, to preview his new band treating a small ...
Garland Jeffreys, Tom Waits: Tom Waits, Garland Jeffreys: The Cellar Door, Washington DC
Live Review by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, October 1975
THE NIGHTHAWK SOARS ...
Victoria Spivey: Queen of the Blues
Profile and Interview by Richard Harrington, Unicorn Times, December 1975
HALFWAY INTO her 70th year, Victoria Spivey is a queen with a diminishing court. She is perhaps the last of the great women blues singers, ...
John Cale, Patti Smith: Patti Smith: Critics' Choice? Recycling With Patti
Comment by Joe Sasfy, Unicorn Times, March 1976
PATTI SMITH and band are nothing more than some refried psychedelic/mysteriosio guitar fronted by some Shangri-La/Ronettes vocals emitting Doors/Rimbaud poetry — and they're great! ...
Overview by Joe Sasfy, Unicorn Times, October 1976
THE CHILDE Harold could have billed it as a mini-folk festival. Mini 'cause only two acts appeared, Doug Sahm and his Texas Tornadoes on a ...
Ry Cooder, Flaco Jimenez: Ry Cooder: Ry Talks
Profile and Interview by Richard Harrington, Unicorn Times, November 1976
IF YOU know Ry Cooder's music for its own brilliance, then you can be considered lucky. If you don't know it specifically, then chances are ...
Jimmie Rodgers: The Hard Times and Blues of Mr. Country, Jimmie Rodgers
Retrospective by Joe Sasfy, Unicorn Times, December 1976
IT'S REAL tough getting an angle on Jimmie Rodgers. Although he's been written about extensively — his short life plotted, his influences and influence crisscrossed, ...
The Damned, The Dead Boys: CBGB, New York NY
Live Review by Joe Sasfy, Unicorn Times, May 1977
I SawThe Damned And The Dead Boys And Am Alive And Not Angry By Joe Sasfy, Doctor of Rockology ...
Review by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, July 1977
REMEMBER "PUNK ROCK?" For a while there it was the supreme hip misconception — a much abused catch-all referring in general to any sort of ...
Review by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, December 1977
The Life-Affirming, Entropy-Baiting Ramones and Sex Pistols ...
Talking Heads Approach Art Rock from the Right Direction
Interview by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, January 1978
TALKING HEADS are certainly not the only rock group ever to be designated "intellectuals." They are, however, the first to wear that description gracefully; they ...
The Band, Rick Danko: Danko: Happy With His Band — And The Band
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Unicorn Times, February 1978
THE LIGHTS went down at the Cellar Door and the disembodied voice purred: "Please welcome to our stage, Arista recording artists the Rick Danko Group." ...
Review by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, March 1978
AMONG OUTSIDERS, the paramount issues of the punk/new wave movement revolve around stuff like clothing styles, politics, and the effect of massive success on a ...
Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy (Asylum 6E-118)
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Unicorn Times, April 1978
The Excitable Warren Zevon: Accidently Like a Rock Star ...
Pere Ubu: Punching the Music Time Clock
Interview by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, May 1978
IF A TELEPHONE pole gets toppled by lightning and no one hears it hit pavement, was there indeed any sound of "thud?" Yeah, don't be ...
The Rolling Stones: Stones Still Hungry After All These Years
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Unicorn Times, 1 July 1978
THE ROLLING STONES first crawled into our collective hearts as a teenage working class street punk band. And now, here are Keith Richard and Mick ...
ABBA, Blondie, Lisa Burns, The Heaters, Ronnie Spector: Albums by Abba, Blondie et al
Review by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, October 1978
Girl Group Sound Filters Back into Rock Scene ...
Review by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, November 1978
IN EXAMINING Talking Heads' latest release, More Songs About Buildings and Food (Sire, SRK 6058), we encounter a disturbing new twist upon several crucial new ...
Profile and Interview by Joe Sasfy, Unicorn Times, 1979
CONFIDENTIAL REPORT BY JOE SASFY ...
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Unicorn Times, May 1979
GARY SHIDER and Mike Hampton held the stage at the Capital Centre in the fiercest rock'n'roll guitar duet in any local hall recently. Shider's fingers ...
Peter Tosh, The Wailers: Peter Tosh: The Bush Doctor is in
Interview by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, August 1979
FIRST TACTICAL error: having arranged earlier in the day to meet with a long admired reggae legend at a given place and hour, I trust ...
The B-52s: On Target with the B-52s
Interview by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, December 1979
Setting their sights beyond Athens, Georgia ...
T Bone Burnett: Truth Decay (Takoma Records)
Review by Joe Sasfy, Unicorn Times, October 1980
Prime Cuts from T-Bone Burnett ...
Minor Threat: 9:30 Club, Washington DC
Live Review by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, June 1982
THEY RAGED; they soared; they conquered. In fact, the reformed Minor Threat very nearly surpassed the grotesquely high expectations everybody held for them on this, ...
Lester Bangs: The Immortal Lester Bangs
Obituary by Robot A. Hull, Unicorn Times, July 1982
"...but there is a death in the balance and you better look long and hard at it, you stupid fuckheads, you who treat life as ...
Rank And File: A String Tie And Safety Pin Affair
Interview by Joe Sasfy, Unicorn Times, February 1983
I LIKED Rank And File's music from the moment I heard a demo tape of theirs in Joe Patoski's livingroom in Austin in mid-1981. I ...
Nils Lofgren: Thirteen Views Of Nils Lofgren
Interview by Charles Bermant, Unicorn Times, December 1983
NILS LOFGREN'S LIFE can best be described by a poignant line from 'Like Rain', a song he wrote in his teens that he will probably ...
T Bone Burnett's Chapter and Verse
Interview by Charles Bermant, Unicorn Times, March 1984
T-BONE BURNETT STRIDES onstage alone, immediately sitting at the piano. He seems to strike a few soulful chords, wincing at every sound. He stands up, ...
The Go-Go's: Exclusive: The Go-Go's Papers
Interview by Charles Bermant, Unicorn Times, August 1984
Explicit Scenes of a Writer's Downfall ...
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