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REWIND: Heavy Metal, Ephemera, and Popular Culture: A Chat with The Mountain Goats

The Mountain Goats are John Darnielle. Literate, energetic, sincere, and acoustic, he’s one of the best things going in music today. His lyrics manage to paint knowing pictures of real humanity with an economy and emotional strength…

Written on March 15, 2001 | Posted in Features,Interviews

Amps for Christ and Two Ambiguous Figures, The Beggar’s Garden

The future is about demographics. Actually, that’s misleading, since even today is really about demographics. Specifically, more and more the idea of niche marketing to smaller and smaller groups with more narrowly defined preferences is becoming not just commonplace…

Written on March 1, 1999 | Posted in Reviews