Chuck Eddy
Chuck Eddy was born in Detroit in 1960. After starting his journalism career with The Village Voice and Creem, where he published one of the first national interviews with the Beastie Boys[1] in the mid-1980s, Eddy then wrote for Rolling Stone, Spin, Entertainment Weekly and other national and local publications. He is also the author of Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe, and The Accidental Evolution of Rock and Roll.
Eddy currently freelances from Austin, Texas. He contributes a regular "Essentials" column to Spin; blog entries and several reviews every week, and occasional video interviews, to Rhapsody.com; and frequent pieces to The Village Voice, eMusic, and other outlets. He has also programmed several artist-specific web radio stations for Clear Channel.
He has published book chapters in several anthologies, including: The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll (Random House, 1992); Spin Alternative Record Guide (Vintage, 1995); Stars Don’t Stand Still in the Sky: Music And Myth (NYU Press, 1999); Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth (Feral House, 2001); Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll Magazine (Collins, 2007); and 1000 Songs To Change Your Life (Time Out, 2008.)
His anthologies Rock and Roll Always Forgets (2011) and Terminated for Reasons of Taste (2016) are published by Duke University Press.
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Dead Kennedys: The Dead Kennedys: Goodnight, Democracy
Report by Chuck Eddy, Spin, September 1986
Sure, the Dead Kennedys are offensive, but obscene? It must be Jello, because jam don't shock like that. ...
Scratch Acid: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Profile and Interview by Chuck Eddy, Spin, October 1986
Scratch Acid songs are about husbands setting wives on fire and rednecks exterminating longhairs and insects on tonight's fish dinner and humans being devoured. This ...
The Beastie Boys: Lay it Down, Clowns!
Profile and Interview by Chuck Eddy, Creem, May 1987
"They took the doors off their hinges and moved them around. They flooded two floors with the fire hoses. They plugged up the toilets and ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, June 1987
EVERYBODY ALWAYS SAYS Arizona's Meat Puppets sound like they're on drugs, but I wouldn't know about that kinda thing. To me, they just sound like ...
fIREHOSE, The Minutemen: Minutemen: Ballot Result (SST); fIREHOSE: Ragin', Full-On (SST)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Creem, June 1987
MINUTE MADE ...
Butthole Surfers: Locust Abortion Technician (Touch and Go)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, July 1987
THE ONLY WAY to analyze a Butthole Surfers record is to separate the good (hard, funny) bullshit from the bad (soft, tedious) bullshit, which ain't ...
Foreigner, Lou Gramm: Lou Gramm: A Jaunt to Dimension Solo
Profile and Interview by Chuck Eddy, Creem, August 1987
BEST WAY to kick this off is to can the corny suspense and letcha in on what the man told me, which I'm sure as ...
Profile and Interview by Chuck Eddy, Creem, October 1987
"WHAT IF BEINGS from another dimension telepathically force us to change our moral overview? What then??" ...
Rosanne Cash: King's Record Shop (Columbia)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Creem, November 1987
DUDE-HONKIN': THE SEQUEL ...
Angry Samoans: The Angry Samoans: Samoa, Ho!
Profile and Interview by Chuck Eddy, Creem, December 1987
"THE PURPOSE of music as a reflection of the ever-changing nature of the world is to make everything you like seem silly five years later, ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Creem, April 1988
GOD: THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK ...
Megadeth: So Far, So Good... So What! (Capitol)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Creem, June 1988
THE PRIMARY reason Megadeth is famous, and probably the only reason they're on a major label, is because Dave Mustaine used to be in Metallica. ...
Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant: Robert Plant, Technobilly
Interview by Chuck Eddy, Creem, June 1988
A FEW MONTHS back, Robert Plant walked into Atlantic Records' London offices and played 'Scream', by Ralph Nielsen & The Chancellors. Now, I dunno if ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, March 1989
"SAMANTHA;" according to Today's Best Baby Names, derives from Aramaic (the language Jesus spoke) and means "the listener." But the listener here is me, and ...
Roxanne Shanté: Bad Sister ****
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 8 February 1990
RECORDED BETWEEN laundry loads in 1985 when she was fourteen years old, Roxanne Shanté's first single, 'Roxanne's Revenge', was a spontaneous storm of sassy rap ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 22 March 1990
'YA BE YE', the first single from Yemenite thrush Ofra Haza's Desert Wind, is a song of maternal advice, a Middle Eastern rejoinder to the ...
A Tribe Called Quest: People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm ***
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 19 April 1990
INASMUCH AS THE arch and arty New York hip-hop foursome A Tribe Called Quest exudes any enthusiasm at all on its debut album, that enthusiasm ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 14 June 1990
AS EDISON MIGHT have put it, most great disco is one-percent inspiration, ninety-nine-percent perspiration. Its unguarded vulgarity is what puts it over – "I'm not ...
Robert Plant: Manic Nirvana (Es Paranza)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, July 1990
LIKE SO MANY of his fellow '70s prog-rockers (Yes, Rush, Peter Gabriel, Queen, Jethro Tull, King Crimson), Robert Plant spent the '80s trying hard to ...
Andrew Ridgeley: Son of Albert (Columbia)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, September 1990
IN WHAM!, Andrew Ridgeley did whatever it is Chris Lowe does in the Pet Shop Boys. You can't call it "looking pretty for group pictures," ...
2 Live Crew: Banned in the U.S.A.: The Luke LP Featuring the 2 Live Crew (Luke/Atlantic) ***
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 6 September 1990
ODDLY ENOUGH, given the unprecedented barrage of anxiety Luther Campbell's foul mouth has inspired, the 2 Live Crew doesn't have a remarkably inventive mind forsin. ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 6 September 1990
SHONEN KNIFE consists of three young Japanese women who play some of the happiest, snappiest rock & roll ever to bounce off a satellite dish. ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 20 September 1990
THE DOWNFALL of Poison, whose first two albums showcased a carefree marriage of '60s bubblegum to '70s hard rock, can be traced to the day ...
Cinderella: Heartbreak Station
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 10 January 1991
LIKE TOO MANY hard-rock albums in the last year or so, the latest by the mall-metal stalwarts in Cinderella is a blatant bid for the ...
Will to Power: Gimme Back My Bullets: Will to Power shoot for disco Valhalla
Profile by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 17 January 1991
ON NEW YEAR'S Eve, I stayed home and went to bed early, as anybody with respect for planetary alignment and his own safety and disrespect ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 21 February 1991
IN DETROIT, where Inner City comes from, fire is often associated with the annual Halloween-eve arson festival known as Devil's Night, or with crack houses ...
Queen: Innuendo (Hollywood) ***
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 7 March 1991
ONE WAY TO CONFIRM that Queen never consisted of your typically haughty progressive-rock snobs is to consider the following: In the late Seventies, Emerson, Lake ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 18 April 1991
EVER SINCE the Who and the Stones, if not the Revolutionary War, uppity British ironists have made a habit of "elevating" vulgar American pop crazes ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 16 May 1991
IT'S NOT every day that a hit single comes along that combines the accidental da da appeal of Focus's 'Hocus Pocus' or Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' ...
Shonen Knife: Pretty Little Baka Guy & Live in Japan (Rockville)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, June 1991
WHAT REALLY puts the pop-rockettes in Japan's legendary Shonen Knife light-years ahead of such inconsequential Western frauds as "Lush" (how Shonen Knife would pronounce Rush) ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 13 June 1991
UNION, A REUNION of most of the people who used to sing and play instruments for Yes, is an eclectic miscarriage that almost isn't even ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 27 June 1991
TO HER CREDIT, Pat Benatar has never been a purist. From the beginning, this opera-trained mom has not cared whether you classified her as a ...
The KLF: The White Room (Arista); Chill Out (Wax Trax)
Review by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 11 July 1991
JIMMY CAUTY and Bill Drummond are two pretentious con men from England who think they can "subvert" popular music by taking pieces of old records ...
Vanilla Ice: Extremely Live (SBK)
Review by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 18 July 1991
FACE THE fact, Jack — Vanilla Ice got a bum rap. Give or take Cool J's 'Boomin' System', 'Ice Ice Baby' is as catchy and ...
Overview by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 1 August 1991
"I FIND A lot of heavy-metal stuff to not really be from the heart and not dealing with, like, real problems. I mean, some of ...
Michael Jackson: Sound of Breaking Glass: Michael Jackson's Dangerous
Review by Chuck Eddy, The Village Voice, 17 December 1991
HEY, SO HOW COME nobody's compared the fucker to There's a Riot Goin' On? Well, maybe Riot without the cocaine. Or okay, okay, Fresh then, ...
New Kids On The Block: A Secret History of New Kids On The Block
Special Feature by Chuck Eddy, Throat Culture, 1992
"Rap is a toilet, not a design for a toilet, or a better toilet...It is the first toilet. It is a toilet for sitting on, ...
Tone Loc: Cool Hand Loc (Delicious Vinyl)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, January 1992
TONE LOC could well be the guy that repossesses Melle Mel's car in 'The Message' (it really was his job once), and in a sense, ...
Bad Religion, Dag Nasty: Bad Religion: Generator (Epitaph); Dag Nasty: Four on the Floor (Epitaph)
Review by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 12 March 1992
HARDCORE PUNK happened more than 10 years ago, meant less than it wanted to then, and means less than nothing now. Bad Religion and Dag ...
The Electric Eels: Electric Eels: God Says Fuck You (Homestead)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, April 1992
THE ELECTRIC Eels inhabited the same '70s Ohio milieu as Pere Ubu, the Pagans, X-X, the Styrenes (whose new It's Artastic: Cleveland 1975-79 is prog ...
ABBA: The Munich Philharmonic Orchestra Plays ABBA Classic (Atlantic)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 16 April 1992
IT'D BE REAL easy to make fun of this one. But think about it: It was ABBA, after all, that most successfully turned postrock pop ...
Superchunk: Tossing Seeds (Singles 89-91)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 16 April 1992
SUPERCHUNK IS A fresh-faced power-pop quartet – three boys, plus a girl on bass – from North Carolina that does one thing and does it, ...
El DeBarge: In the Storm (Warner Bros.) ***
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 28 May 1992
El DEBARGE'S god (to whom El apologizes for his "lasciviousness" in the liner notes) blessed him with the voice of an angel. When El was ...
Sophie B. Hawkins: Tongues and Tails (Columbia)
Review by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 18 June 1992
SOPHIE B. HAWKINS is a former New York performance artist and world-beat drummer whose confidential-singer-songstress debut, Tongues and Tails, is currently selling like hot cakes ...
The Cure: Spectrum Philadelphia, PA
Live Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, August 1992
SO WHO'S cooler: Robert Smith or his fans? Well, it depends. From what I saw, none of his devout cultists (at least male ones) have ...
Utah Saints: Something Good (London)
Review by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 10 September 1992
ACID HOUSE was maybe an intriguing new clang when Phuture and Derek May squeaked it out of the Midwest a half-decade ago, but by the ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, December 1992
AC/DC's ROLE as rap-music progenitor cannot be overlooked. ...
Bikini Kill: Bikini Kill EP (Kill Rock Stars) **½
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 4 February 1993
ANY DECENT PARENT would be proud of a daughter who staked her claim as a "riot grrrl" these days. ...
Debbie Gibson: Deborah Gibson: Body Mind Soul
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 4 March 1993
USED TO BE the most risqué thing about Debbie Gibson was how in 'Lost in Your Eyes' you could hear her sing "I get weak ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 13 May 1993
THE ONLY THING you can say for sure about 'Informer', the unsinkable Number One reggae novelty by white Toronto toaster Snow, is that it somehow ...
Milli Vanilli, Try 'N B: Rob & Fab: Rob & Fab (Joss Entertainment) **; Try n' Be: Try n' Be (RCA) **
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 10 June 1993
MILLI VANILLI is pop music's answer to baseball's 1919 Chicago Black Sox — the group's scandal will forever overshadow the way it outperformed so much ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 2 September 1993
THERE ARE NO songs about driving cars on Exposed, the debut solo album by former Mötley Crüe throat Vince Neil, none about racing Indy Lights ...
Schoolly D: Welcome to America (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Vibe, March 1994
EARLY RAP imitated the world it was created in: celebratory house and street parties that suddenly erupted into bloody crossfire from gangster-leaning, stick-up kids walking ...
Ace Of Base: The Sign (Arista)
Review by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 21 April 1994
AS FAR AS I can remember, 'All That She Wants' by Ace of Base is the only hit single ever to talk about a lady ...
Alice Cooper: The Last Temptation
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 14 July 1994
IF YOU WENT to high school in the '70s, Alice Cooper's 'I'm Eighteen' and 'School's Out' became part of your life. Cooper dirges like 'Desperado' ...
Sir Mix-A-Lot: Chief Boot Knocka (American)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, August 1994
SIR MIX-A-LOT blew it! On his new album, he says he's trying to make Tipper Gore and Rush Limbaugh restless, but he leaves out Reverend ...
Stone Temple Pilots: Purple (Atlantic)
Review by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 4 August 1994
AFTER ONE of my brother-in-law's Thursday-night poker games, the 20-somethings there played Pearl Jam's first album repeatedly until people got tired of it. So they ...
House of Pain: Same As It Ever Was (Tommy Boy)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, September 1994
IF I WERE in high school now, I'd feel threatened by House of Pain — they remind me of the burr-headed white gutterboys who congregate ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 20 October 1994
OKAY, FIRST off the individuals who used to call themselves Jim Morrison. Elvis Costello and Prince were all the same person! Their music all featured ...
Teena Marie: Teena In Wonderland
Interview by Chuck Eddy, Vibe, November 1994
R&B's honorary soul sister, Teena Marie, has a new album, her own label, and a beautiful daughter — it must be magic. ...
Offspring: Revenge Of The Nerds
Interview by Chuck Eddy, Spin, March 1995
The Offspring put the pop back in punk and fashioned the indie success story of the decade. Chuck Eddy testifies. ...
Guns N' Roses: The Ten That Matter Most '85-'95: Guns N' Roses
Retrospective by Chuck Eddy, Spin, April 1995
GUNS N' ROSES surprised me in 1987 simply by being search-and-destroy young punks who weren't afraid to sing and dance. ...
Radiohead: The Bends (Capitol)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, May 1995
THIS IS one of those follow-up albums (like the last Spin Doctors one and, I fear, the next Counting Crows, the Offspring, and Blur records) ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 7 September 1995
MARTYRED MEXICAN-American superstar Selena, shot to death by her ex-fan club president outside a Corpus Christi, Texas, motel this past March, loved dressing skimpily onstage ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, October 1995
'NO RAIN' by Blind Melon was a very popular song around my house two summers ago — all I can say is our life was ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, November 1995
THE MORE Blur and Oasis act British by pretending to be funny without punch lines on their long-awaited new albums (long-awaited in England, anyway, where ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 2 November 1995
CANDLEBOX WERE lifted out of Seattle by Madonna instead of by Sub Pop Records, and their audience tends to be teenage girls. So they're maligned ...
Cypress Hill: III (Temples of Boom) (Ruff House/Columbia)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, January 1996
CYPRESS HILL'S stoned slowness on Temple of Boom is definite proof that hemp demolishes brain cells. Middle-of-the-road and lame-in-the-membrane is how Temples hits me. Only ...
Ruth Ruth: The Little Death (Epitaph/Deep Elm EP)
Review by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 12 September 1996
Uninvited: Revenge rock in re Ruth Ruth ...
Fluffy: 5 Live (The Enclave EP); Black Eye (The Enclave)
Review by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 19 September 1996
A Magnificent Package — Fluffy: Gold dust women of '96 ...
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Now I Got Worry (Matador)
Review by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 24 October 1996
'CAN'T STOP', a kitschy sort of Booker T and the MGs-style green-onion-and-mushroom-salad keyboard excursion on former Pussy Galore pottymouth Jon Spencer's latest Blues Explosion album, ...
Girls Against Boys: Disco 666 (Touch and Go EP)
Review by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 7 November 1996
IN FRONT of the third stage at the Kansas City opening installment of this summer's Loliapalooza tour, some apparent ex-Deadhead with burgeoning middle-age spread asked ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, December 1996
TOOL'S GENRE is yawning-chasm metal — instead of concrete songs beginning and ending, volume knobs simply open and close, engulfing you like a sperm whale's ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 17 December 1996
AT ITS BEST, Slaughter fills the same niche today that garage bands filled in the mid-'60s – a speedy and loud but pretty and danceable ...
Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson: Marilyn Manson: Wrong Is Right
Essay by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 19 December 1996
Marilyn Manson's diet for an evil new planet ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 2 January 1997
Teen Machines ...
Offspring: Ixnay On The Hombre
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 10 January 1997
IN PURE IQ-test terms – singer Dexter Holland is just inches away from his microbiology Ph.D., for Christ's sake – the Offspring might rank as ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, February 1997
DOWN UNDER beach-teen trio Silverchair displayed billabongloads of angst on their 1995 debut Frogstomp, but except for the song where they threatened to commit suicide ...
Offspring: The Offspring: Ixnay on the Hombre (Columbia) ***½
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 6 February 1997
Primitive radio gods? ...
Live: Tower Theater, Philadelphia PA
Live Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, May 1997
ALL THE MOST-embarrassing-to-watch dancers in the '90s are bald: Sinead O'Connor, Michael Stipe, Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil, and now Live's Ed Kowalczyk. ...
Gina G, Spice Girls: The Spice Girls: Spice (Virgin); Gina G: Fresh! (Eternal/Warner Bros.)
Review by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 8 May 1997
They Know What They Really Really Want and They Know How To Get It. Spice Girls, Gina G: If they could do it all over ...
Hanson: Middle Of Nowhere (Mercury) ***
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 26 June 1997
'MMMBOP', the debut hit by kiddie trio Hanson that's now warming up Top 40 charts and fourth-grade hearts, sticks in your brain like Trident in ...
Everclear: So Much for the Afterglow (Capitol)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, November 1997
A DECADE AGO, I pushed my toddler son's stroller through Ann Arbor, Michigan, where marijuana was almost legal and even adults dressed like college students. ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 27 November 1997
LAST TIME WE heard from them (in 1995), aging eye-shadow poster boys Duran Duran had a hit cover of Grandmaster Flash's eerie 1983 cocaine rap ...
Shania Twain: Come On Over ***
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 11 December 1997
THE FIRST thing you notice about Shania Twain's Come On Over, once you get past her pretty pictures on the cover, is how the titles ...
Metallica: CorseStates Center Parking Lot, Philadelphia
Live Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, February 1998
IT WAS DUBBED the "Million Decibel March," but Metallica's purported return to hard rockin' drew a crowd you might expect to see at a Bryan ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 5 February 1998
A SEXTET OF East German sexual-torture fanatics that has been accused of luring the youth of Europe toward communist bliss (and who also appeared on ...
All Saints: All Saints (London) **½
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 5 March 1998
SHAPELY LONDON dance-pop quartet All Saints are slated to supplant the Spice Girls, but they're more like the legacy of TLC and En Vogue — ...
Rancid: Plotting a Punky Reggae Party
Interview by Chuck Eddy, Spin, May 1998
TIM ARMSTRONG once sang about punk-rock squats and dirt-cheap crash pads. Now the Rancid singer/guitarist is giving the grand tour of his Los Angeles dream ...
Smash Mouth, Third Eye Blind: Third Eye Blind/Smash Mouth: Electric Factory, Philadelphia
Live Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, May 1998
EVERYONE SCREAMED when thinks-he's-all-that Third Eye Blind singer Stephan Jenkins stripped off his jacket, but the consensus of the Bishop Eustace Prep debutantes in attendance ...
Presidents of the United States of America: Pure Frosting
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 11 June 1998
SEATTLE NOVELTY-ROCK trio the Presidents of the United States of America recently resigned from office; seems they were sick of getting paired with "Weird Al" ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 25 June 1998
TOO MANY recent "rock en español" hypes (Negu Gorriak, Niños con Bombas, Todos Tus Muertos) prove only that gratuitously pissed-off slam-dance funk can sound repulsive ...
The Hard Stuff: Almost a Dozen Reasons to Like Metal Again
Review by Chuck Eddy, The Boston Phoenix, 20 July 1998
A FEW YEARS AGO, bored by grunge and late speedmetal and still lamenting the loss of pretty glam in prettier haircuts, I thought loud guitar ...
Royal Crown Revue: The Contender
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 1 October 1998
SNAZZY FEDORAS and a brass section can't hide Royal Crown Revue's tough-guy heart. On their varied and witty fourth album, The Contender, this swinging Los ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 17 November 1998
FORMER ARMY airborne soldier Shawn Mullins is a sensitive tough guy. Inside the sleeve of Soul's Core – the Atlanta troubadour's seventh album but his ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 26 November 1998
LONG BEFORE the advent of samplers, Brazilian avant-Tropicalist Tom Zé was uniting seemingly opposed styles and constructing instruments from found objects – blenders, typewriters, floor ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, December 1998
The biggest female rock star of the '90s returns with an album even more schizo than Jagged Little Pill ...
The Black Crowes: By Your Side (Columbia)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, February 1999
Whenever I shoot pool, my first jukebox quarter inevitably goes to 'Hard To Handle' by the Black Crowes, which inspires such grand delusions of well-endowment ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 4 February 1999
Two techno pioneers prove why they're legends ...
Placebo: Without You Nothing (Virgin)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 4 February 1999
Brits who show their glam peers how to rock ...
Sammy Hagar, Metallica: Bottoms up: Topping the Billboard
Comment by Chuck Eddy, The Village Voice, 12 May 1999
FOR THE PAST month, two of the top five tracks pissing their night away on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart have been celebrations of alcohol consumption, ...
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Film/DVD/TV Review by Chuck Eddy, The Village Voice, 2 July 2004
LAST FALL, a hilarious 3,000-word review of Metallica's unlistenable St. Anger by some guy named Colin Tappe circulated over the Internet. ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 13 December 2011
White rapper from upper Rust Belt conquers world — sound familiar? ...
Metallica's Kill 'Em All, the Album to Credit and/or Blame for "Extreme Metal" Mania, Turns 30
Retrospective by Chuck Eddy, Spin, 25 July 2013
IN 1983'S International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, Tony Jasper and Derek Oliver make the claim that two different California bands put out ...
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