Matt Taibbi and Paul Krugmann on the Economy
For the most part, I’ve been willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt concerning his handling of the economy. My assumption up until now has been that he knows that, in the long run, several...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs, from bailout to billions in bonuses
I was just reading this piece in today’s New York Times on the enormous profits being posted by the investment bank Goldman Sachs, and I was reminded of an article I read a week or so ago in Rolling...
View ArticleMatt Taibbi on Obama’s big sellout to Wall Street
Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi has a hard-hitting new piece on the Obama administration’s “Big Sellout” to Wall Street… Here’s a clip: …What’s taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has...
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Velvet Underground members talk about the old times, somehow without...
Our outspoken drummer friend Moe Tucker reunited with her perpetually grumpy Velvet Underground collaborator Lou Reed a few days ago for an appearance at the New York Public Library, coinciding with...
View ArticleBoots reboot… Here’s what happened a week ago tonight, when Boots Riley and...
It just occurred to me that, after all of my hype in the run-up to the big show at Woodruff’s last Sunday night, I probably owed you a final follow-up post, so that those of you weren’t at the show...
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Bruce Conforth on the real life of Robert Johnson, the real hell of the Rock...
When I first started talking with ethnomusicologist Bruce Conforth about the possibility of his being on the show, I wasn’t exactly sure what we’d be talking about. He didn’t seem terribly...
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