AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN DARNIELLE
By KYLE OLSON
When I thought about Black Sabbath, I thought, yeah, people give them more props than they used to, but there's still this kind of hesitant quality to how people engage with it, unless they're metal dudes.
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DESERT ISLAND BOOKS
As a part of the our music issue the HBC asked a few musicians for their top five desert island books. Contributors include the Lucksmiths, Son Ambulance, Thao, Parts & Labor, and Red Pony Clock.
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IT FELT LIKE THIS CITY WAS THE END OF THE WORLD
A Look at No Wave New York
By MARIE MUNDACA
I enviously watched the angular college-age hipsters—usually sitting sullenly through songs by the Teardrop Explodes and the Yachts, drinking and smoking and glaring through curtains of slick hair—jump up and danced in a spasmodic frenzy when Medium Medium's "Hungry So Angry" would play. I could never be as cool as those thin white dukes and duchesses of nihilism.
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A LITERARY MUXTAPE
By KYLE OLSON
I imagine you have your own Barnes & Noble-based bodice ripping fantasies, as well. Feel free to share. We can work together on creating an all book-lover erotica collection called Literary Lust (which just narrowly beat out the less classy Book Boners).
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LETTER FROM THE EDITORS:
My Music Is Where I'd Like You to Touch
By YENNIE CHEUNG
Even as a professional music journalist, I've endured plenty of disparaging groupie jokes and advances from salacious musicians (attention, rock stars: "You look like my wife; let's make out" is not a good pick-up line).
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THE INFLUENCE OF ANXIETY:
Our Book Could Be Your Life
By DOROTHY PARKA
The majority of songs are loosely based on [Harry] Crews's books and share his basic themes of gritty freakishness and decay. They are abrasive in the same way Crews is, and like Crews, not for everyone.
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