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Radio clowns

How freeform Internet radio is giving voice to the strange, the crass, and the stoned
A hooker, an axe murderer, two white supremacists, and a little girl with pigtails are discussing their differences on air.
By CHRIS FARAONE | May 12, 2011

By | January 01, 0001

Crossword: ''So Many Words''

Throwin' em out at random for you.
Throwin' em out at random for you.
By MATT JONES | February 17, 2010

The Big Hurt: Aussie asses sued off

Plus creepy Macca spawn sings; iffy Ringo joke aborted
MEN AT WORK — best known for their 1983 hit "Down Under" — have just had their pants sued off by a dead schoolmarm and her 78-year-old Girl Scout song.
By DAVID THORPE | February 16, 2010

The Big Hurt: Everybody hurting

Warning: Scorpions content
The music industry's response to the Haiti disaster has been pretty great, since it's given some huge names a chance to complete the vital circuit between the public's heartstrings and their wallets.
By DAVID THORPE | February 02, 2010

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Flight of the Conchords | I Told You I Was Freaky

Sub Pop (2009)
The New Zealand “folk-comedy” duo Flight of the Conchords transcended folk and comedy on their debut LP, a soundtrack to the absurdist HBO show of the same name, with genre parodies that were great songs in their own right.
By ZETH LUNDY | October 14, 2009

Review: Fig Trees

Strikes a delicate balance among solemnity, wry humor, and rage
Here's a first: an AIDS documentary nested inside an opera that's obsessed with albino squirrels, figs, palindromes, and Pythagoras.
By SHAULA CLARK | May 06, 2009

Crossword: ''I don't got U, babe''

So I'll just stick around
So I'll just stick around
By MATT JONES | February 25, 2009

Crossword: ''Early and often''

An election selection.
An election selection.
By MATT JONES | October 29, 2008

Nerdoku

Psycho Sudoku!
Psycho Sudoku!
By PSYCHO SUDOKU | October 01, 2008

Vote the rock

Prince bows to King Dylan
The Republican and Democratic conventions are still more than a month away, but that doesn’t mean the summer has been an electoral wasteland.
By LANCE GOULD | July 16, 2008

Crossword: ''And the last shall be first''

Or pretty close, anyway.
Or pretty close, anyway.
By MATT JONES | May 21, 2008

Crossword: ''I curse you''

But I'm keeping it nice.
But I'm keeping it nice.
By MATT JONES | December 19, 2007

Free culture: what it is, why it matters

Copyright reform in the digital age
“Copyright law has successfully stopped artists in the past from releasing sample-based works, but I don't think anything could stop me from making it," says Gregg Gillis, a/k/a Girl Talk.
By JOE BERNARDI | November 19, 2007

BruceFest

Music seen at Bubba's Sulky Lounge, September 22, 2007
Bubba's filled with fans eager to hear tributes to the heartland-rocker-in-chief, the gravel-voiced singer wrapped in the American flag.
By JEFF INGLIS | September 26, 2007

Crossword: ''S_y anything''

Fill in the blanks
Fill in the blanks
By MATT JONES | June 27, 2007

Ranging far + wide

Vivid Motion drinks life to the lees
Vivid Motion is turning Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey on its head.
By KELSEA BRENNAN-WESSELS | June 06, 2007

The 100 unsexiest men 2007: 10-1

These guys couldn't turn on a radio
These guys couldn't turn on a radio
By | April 14, 2007

Crossword: 'Soy what?'

I'm just bean crazy, that's all
I'm just bean crazy, that's all
By MATT JONES | March 28, 2007

Guest lists

What 30 of the Phoenix 's music critics liked this year
What small, private lists like this remind us is that big, honking institutional lists are largely fictions, mirages of a consensus that no longer exists, if it ever really did in the first place.
By PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | January 02, 2007