salon.com
Launched in 1995, and operated from San Francisco, California, salon.com is a news website which focuses on U.S. politics and current affairs, and on reviews and articles about music, books and films.
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Backstreet Boys: 50,000,000 Backstreet Boys' fans can be wrong
Essay by Ira Robbins, salon.com, 8 June 1999
THE SWEAT-DRENCHED rock 'n' rollers of the '50s knew all about good and evil. Forty years later, the Backstreet Boys are singing love songs to ...
Essay by Ira Robbins, salon.com, 20 July 1999
NOBODY DOESN'T LIKE the Ramones. They're as immortal as America's other band, the Beach Boys. Whatever punk became – ruined canvases of Mohawked body art, ...
The Clash: From Here to Eternity
Review by Ira Robbins, salon.com, 19 October 1999
ON PAPER, the October 1982 pairing of the Clash and the Who at Shea Stadium in New York should have been historic. And maybe it ...
Lester Bangs: Did Lester Bangs Die In Vain?
Book Review by Ira Robbins, salon.com, 4 April 2000
Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic By Jim DeRogatis, Broadway, 256 Pages ...
Grand Funk Railroad: The Band that Killed Rock 'n' Roll
Essay by Ira Robbins, salon.com, 10 April 2000
AMONG CULTURAL HISTORIANS, it has long been an article of faith that the '60s dream died in an ugly bar fight at Altamont Speedway in ...
The Rolling Stones: Sonny Barger: Hell's author
Report and Interview by Deanne Stillman, salon.com, 10 July 2000
IN 1982, AFTER smoking three packs of Camels a day for 30 years, Sonny Barger, the founder of the Oakland Hells Angels motorcycle club, was ...
The Best of Broadside 1962–1988
Review by Ira Robbins, salon.com, 19 September 2000
BROADSIDE PUBLISHED SONGS by writers who wanted to change the world – including a young Bob Dylan. A five-CD set marches through the great folk ...
Brian Wilson, Card-carrying Genius
Essay by Ira Robbins, salon.com, 10 April 2001
After a life custom-made for cable catharsis, the force behind the Beach Boys is now being honored even for things he didn't do. Does that ...
Essay by Ira Robbins, salon.com, 10 April 2001
AT THE BRIAN WILSON tribute concert in New York in March, a short film explained that Wilson had lived his whole life in fear and ...
George Harrison: And Life Flows On
Obituary by Ira Robbins, salon.com, 3 December 2001
HE COULD HAVE BEEN Charles Dickens' idea of a rock star, a dry-witted gentleman whose faith, and fate, left him isolated but satisfied, living his ...
Elvis Costello: When He Was Cruel
Review by Ira Robbins, salon.com, 30 April 2002
MICK JAGGER HAD A POINT when he announced "it's the singer not the song" – the young Rolling Stones were perfectly content to beg, borrow ...
Neil Young: Bio Warfare: Why did Neil Young try to squelch Shakey?
Comment by Marc Weingarten, salon.com, 24 May 2002
SHAKEY, A 786-PAGE biography of Neil Young that's just been published, almost wasn't. For that reason, it serves as an apt metaphor for the way ...
Gnarls Barkley: Hip-hop's Biggest Clowns: Gnarls Barkley: The Odd Couple
Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, salon.com, 3 April 2008
Are Gnarls Barkley's wacky costumes and goofy antics just a smoke screen for the massively successful duo's angst? ...
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's women problem
Comment by Evelyn McDonnell, salon.com, 11 December 2011
DO THE MATH: Out of the 11 new members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2012, one — Laura Nyro — ...
Foo Fighters: Record reviews: Who needs them?
Comment by Ira Robbins, salon.com, 1 January 2013
Music criticism is in a horrible state. It wouldn't have to be if we talked about albums like they really mattered. ...
Comment by Caryn Rose, salon.com, 15 February 2016
Set inside the New York music industry in 1973, Vinyl is a fascinating and frustrating chronicle of the era. ...
Obituary by Caryn Rose, salon.com, 16 August 2018
The following is a chapter from Women Who Rock: Bessie to Beyoncé, Girl Groups to Riot Grrrl (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2018), edited by Evelyn ...
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