Request
Request was a monthly music magazine published in Minnetonka, Minnesota from 1988 to 2003. The magazine was provided free to record buyers at a number of stores.
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Review by Barney Hoskyns, Request, Spring 1998
MODULAR FRENCHMEN Nicolas Godin and Jean Benoit Dunckel need no reminding that French pop has always been a bit of a joke. With the brilliant ...
The Beastie Boys: There's Something about the Beastie Boys
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Request, December 1998
I CAN STILL REMEMBER the morning, way back in the sweaty London summer of 1983, when three skinny New York wiseasses burst into the New ...
Retrospective and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Request, 1996
"It was a good scene even when it was shitty, wasn’t it?"– Derek Taylor, Beatles publicist, 1970. ...
Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, Request, January 2000
BECK WAKES up at 8 a.m., alone on the rock-star bus, wondering what the hell happened last night. He and his band were in Santa ...
The Black Crowes: Black Crowes: The Garage, London
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Request, 1996
CHRIS ROBINSON could captain the Deep South Olympics grinning team. Where we see a squat, black-ceilinged closet on the Holloway Road, Chris evidently sees some ...
Mary J. Blige, TLC: TLC: Crazysexycool (LaFace/Arista): Mary J. Blige: My Life (Uptown/MCA)
Review by Amy Linden, Request, February 1995
WRITER F. SCOTT Fitzgerald once said there are no second acts in American Life, but had he been in the pop-music business, he might have ...
Blind Melon: RIP: An Interview with Shannon Hoon
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Request, 1996
SHANNON HOON, Blind Melon vocalist, died on a tour bus on October 21st in a hotel parking lot in New Orleans. To complete the rock ...
Retrospective and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Request, 1996
Bon Jovi release a retrospective Best Of album this Autumn. Jon Bon Jovi looks back at the band's past and their ten years of music. ...
Mariah Carey: Daydream (Columbia)
Review by Amy Linden, Request, December 1995
BY THE time this review appears, Daydream will be dominating the charts and Mariah Carey will be making mad money. So it won't matter to ...
Crazy Horse, Neil Young: Neil Young with Crazy Horse: Broken Arrow
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Request, August 1996
NINE MONTHS AGO, I stood in a field in England watching Neil Young close the Reading Festival and realized the following: If you can play ...
Dr. Dre: Ain't nothing but a gender thang?
Interview by Amy Linden, Request, May 1993
Dr. Dre and writer Amy Linden go one-on-one on sexism and The Chronic. Nobody wins. ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Request, February 1999
AS MICK Jagger’s girlfriend she was among the great - and most tragic - consorts of rock’s decadent heyday. But then this Sister Morphine forced ...
Sean Lennon: Into the Sun (Grand Royal)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Request, June 1998
AFTER THE DAMP SQUIB that half-bro Jules' career turned out to be – and considering the band IMA's collaboration with Yoko Ono on Rising – ...
Curtis Mayfield: New World Order
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Request, December 1996
SIX YEARS AFTER the freak onstage accident that paralyzed him from the neck down, Curtis Mayfield, one of soul music's true titans, makes his debut ...
Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Request, September 1995
IT'S AS IF Annette Funicello had grown up and become Janis Joplin. Just 11 years ago, Alanis Morissette was a cute, 10-year-old actress on Nickelodeon's ...
Retrospective by Jon Savage, Request, 1997
SO YOU THINK Giorgio Moroder and you think of Donna Summer's pornographic 'Love To Love You Baby' and all that followed, but there's more to ...
Review by Amy Linden, Request, August 1995
AMERICA MAY have invented it, but over the past few years the most intriguing R&B has come out of England. From the Young Disciples, Loose ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Request, May 1997
"DOCTOR" ALEX Patterson, overlord of the Orb and revered godfather of the genus Ambient Techno, would like another brandy and ginger, if you don’t mind. ...
Review by Ira Robbins, Request, 15 April 1990
IN THE 1960s, youthful poets, inspired by radical politics and Woody Guthrie, took up acoustic guitars to deliver topical commentary in a folk music setting. ...
The Tony Rich Project: Tony Rich: Atlanta
Interview by Amy Linden, Request, March 1996
ARMED WITH MUSCULAR BALLADS AND A LILTING, MODULATED EMOTIONALITY, HE IS THE LATEST SENSITIVE LOVE MAN. ...
Screaming Trees: Stranger Than Fiction
Interview by Marc Weingarten, Request, August 1996
The members of Screaming Trees get very little enjoyment but plenty of good music out of being in a band together. ...
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, Request, December 1997
AT THE end of the day, all they really, really wanted was to "zigazig ha". ...
Richard Thompson: Watching The Dark: The History of Richard Thompson
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Request, June 1993
LIKE MUCH OF his later writing, Greil Marcus' introductory notes to the new Richard Thompson box set, Watching the Dark, are a hodge-podge of strained ...
Timbaland: Wired for Sound: Timbaland
Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Request, February 1999
CREDITS: MISSY ELLIOTT'S SUPA DUPA FLY, AALIYAH'S ONE IN A MILLION, HIS OWN TIM'S BIO; LIFE FROM DA BASSMENT ...
Weezer: 50,000,000 Weezer Fans Can’t Be Wrong
Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, Request, May 2001
BEFORE IT finds a cozy place in the annals of rock mythology alongside Ozzy's bat-biting, Rod Stewart's stomach pumping, and Mama Cass' deadly ham sandwich, ...
Scott Weiland: The Man Who Fell To Earth
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Request, April 1998
AFTER A SIX-YEAR battle with heroin addiction and two stints in rehab, Scott Weiland, frontman for Stone Temple Pilots and would-be solo artist, is in ...
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