Marc Weingarten
Marc Weingarten is a freelance writer in Los Angeles who writes for the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Observer and Slate. A contributing writer for San Francisco Magazine, Weingarten's first book STATION TO STATION: THE HISTORY OF ROCK AND ROLL ON TELEVISION was an LA Times bestseller and a finalist for the 2000 Ralph J. Gleason award for best music book of the year.
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Husker Du, The Jayhawks, The Replacements, Soul Asylum: The Minneapolis Scene: Left Of The Dial
Overview by Marc Weingarten, Guitar World, August 1995
In the early Eighties, Hüsker Dü, The Replacements and a handful of other scruffy Minneapolis bands forged what is now known as indie rock. This ...
Interview by Marc Weingarten, MOJO, September 1995
CHARLIE HADEN — bassist in Ornette Coleman's epochal late '50s quartet and former leader of the politically charged Liberation Orchestra — has spawned some mighty ...
Neil Young: Journey Through The Past
Retrospective by Marc Weingarten, Guitar World, September 1995
Neil Young is the ageless chameleon of rock. In this history of his long and distinguished career, Guitar World traces his evolution from hippie icon ...
Interview by Marc Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 5 October 1995
THE HISTORY of rock & roll has been told many times. Why is your version of the story any different? ...
Rocket From The Crypt: Rocket Takes Off
Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 22 February 1996
San Diego's favourite sons get fans fired up ...
Ben Folds Five: MOJO Rising: Ben Folds Five
Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, MOJO, June 1996
THERE ARE ROUGHLY two kinds of pop musician: two-bit hacks who try to squeeze everything they can out of hokey harmonies and three threadbare chords ...
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. ...
Prince, Wendy And Lisa: Prince: The Purple Gang
Retrospective and Interview by Marc Weingarten, MOJO, February 1997
Outside the studio he was reticent. Inside he became the most ambitious, audacious auteur of the '80s. Marc Weingarten talks to his key collaborators to ...
Ray Charles, Cassandra Wilson: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 7 October 1997
Ray Charles Keeps Breaking New Ground in Old Fields ...
Los Lobos: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 13 October 1997
From Blues-Based Riffs to Norteño, Los Lobos Deliver an Intense Set ...
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 3 November 1997
Godfathers of Rap Churn Out Boogity Beat for Willing Crowd ...
The Crickets, Nanci Griffith: Nanci Griffith, the Crickets: Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 10 November 1997
Nanci Griffith's Long Look Back ...
Cornershop: Hollywood Athletic Club, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 14 November 1997
Cornershop Falls Far Short of Album ...
Metallica: Re-Load (Elektra) ***½
Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 16 November 1997
THE TITLE of Metallica's new album does the band a disservice. This is less a sequel to last year's Load than a virtual repudiation of ...
RuPaul: Billboard Live, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 19 December 1997
RuPaul's Act Could Use Dressing Up ...
Dwight Yoakam: Billboard Live, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 23 December 1997
Yoakam Leaps Musical Fences in Benefit for L.A. Mission ...
Beck: El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, MOJO, January 1998
BECK MAY be Modern Rock's master ironist, but he takes his roots music very seriously. They're just very gnarled roots, is all. ...
Backstreet Boys: And They Can Sing Too
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 4 January 1998
Two years ago, the Backstreet Boys struggled to find an audience in America for their clean-cut songs. Now, after mega-star success in Europe and Canada, ...
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 9 January 1998
Mack 10 Delivers Gangsta Rap With a Smile and a Surprise ...
Missy Elliott: All Made Up, Ready to Go
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 1 February 1998
There's no stopping Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott as she shakes up the male-dominated hip-hop world. ...
Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, James Brown: Bootsy Collins on Bootsy Collins
Interview by Marc Weingarten, MOJO, April 1998
‘Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine’James Brown (King single, 1970) ...
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 ...
Bonnie Raitt: Fundamental (Capitol)
Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 April 1998
Throwing Dirt on Raitt's Pristine Sound ...
Massive Attack: Mezzanine (Virgin)
Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 1998
MASSIVE ATTACK'S 1991 debut album, Blue Lines, has become a watershed album in the history of electronic dance music for a number of reasons. By ...
Goodie Mob, The Roots: The Roots, Goodie Mob: House of Blues, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 1998
Roots, Goodie Mob Get Back to Basics ...
Interview by Marc Weingarten, Guitar World, June 1998
JERRY CANTRELL is sitting in the breakfast room of New York City's Rhiga Royal Hotel, inspecting the cover art for the vinyl version of his ...
Rufus Wainwright: Roxy, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 1998
Wainwright an Engaging, Versatile Singer ...
Brandy: Diversified, and Then Some
Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 1998
You have to move fast to keep up with Brandy, who's at full production with a hit sitcom, a film sequel and a No. 1 ...
Kraftwerk: Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 1998
Techno-Rocking Kraftwerk Charges Up In its first L.A. concert in almost 15 years, the German quartet shows the influence of its ground-breaking circuit-driven music. ...
Report by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 1998
Rap hasn't merely survived the shocking deaths of hip-hop leaders Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. It's thriving now, thanks to a fresh infusion from today's ...
Snoop (Doggy) Dogg: Snoop Dogg: Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told (No Limit)
Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 1 August 1998
Snoop Dogg Retains His Bite ...
Grateful Dead: The Other Ones: The Furthur Festival, Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, Irvine CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 3 September 1998
THREE YEARS after the death of Jerry Garcia, Deadheads had their best reason yet to congregate and undulate as one. The Other Ones, a band ...
Overview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 27 September 1998
When it comes to top-flight recording studios, Los Angeles has no equal. A tour or some or the best facilities. ...
DJ Spooky, UNKLE: UNKLE: Psyence Fiction (Mo'Wax/London); DJ Spooky: Riddim Warfare (Outpost)
Review by Marc Weingarten, Vibe, October 1998
IF HOP HOP has (traditionally) functioned as a vehicle for moving butts, then DJ Spooky and DJ Shadow are two wigged-out wallflowers out on its ...
The Dixie Chicks: Roxy, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 8 October 1998
Dixie Chicks Display Slick, High-Energy Showmanship ...
Son Volt: Wide Swing Tremolo (Warner Bros.) ***½
Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 10 October 1998
SON VOLT'S Jay Farrar is one of alternative country's big thinkers. Rather than go the easy route and retrace the steps of the Byrds, Gram ...
Chaka Khan, Prince: Chaka Khan: Fighting to Reclaim Her Crown
Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 17 October 1998
Chaka Khan's Forum concert might have been canceled but she's still eager to jump back into the music scene. ...
Faith Evans: Keep the Faith (Arista) **½
Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 26 October 1998
TWO YEARS after the murder of her husband, the rapper Notorious B.I.G., Evans has made an album that both pays homage to him and bemoans ...
4 Hero, Talvin Singh: Talvin Singh: O.K. (Talking Loud/Mercury); 4 Hero: Two Pages (Island)
Review by Marc Weingarten, Vibe, November 1998
Is electronic music turning into the underground equivalent of New Age music? ...
A Tribe Called Quest: The Final Gatherings — A Tribe Called Quest: House of Blues, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 3 December 1998
In its last LA shows, the influential hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Quest injects new life into its hit jams. It's a joyous party — ...
Busta Rhymes: Extinction Level Event (The Final World Front) (Elektra) **½
Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 13 December 1998
Content Doesn't Rise to Level of Inventiveness ...
Interview by Marc Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 21 January 1999
Beck, Radiohead and Pavement producer Nigel Godrich explains ...
Semisonic: Feeling Strangely Successful – At Last
Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, MOJO, February 1999
DAN WILSON received a hostile email late last year. "It was from a fan in Minneapolis who was basically writing to tell me it's all ...
Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 21 February 1999
TLC Takes Care to Adopt Streamlined Approach ...
DC Talk: At a Crossroads, dc Talk Keeps the Faith
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 25 February 1999
Christian rock's most successful band remains true to its spiritual roots as its popularity grows. ...
Wynonna Judd: A Winding Country Road
Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 4 March 1999
Though she has hit a few bumps, Wynonna Judd just keeps driving ahead. ...
The Roots: House of Blues, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 10 March 1999
A Stripped-Down Hip-Hop Beat ...
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Vibe, April 1999
Having survived the end of his group, a coronary attack, and open-heart surgery, Eric "Everlast" Schrody scores big with a honky-tonk rock 'n' rap record. ...
The Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage: Animation Music by the Olivia Tremor Control (Flydaddy)
Review by Marc Weingarten, Spin, April 1999
IF APPLES in Stereo are the Elephant 6 movement's white-gloved archivists, and Neutral Milk Hotel are the resident primitive surrealists, then the Olivia Tremor Control ...
Fatboy Slim: Funk Sold Brother
Report by Marc Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 1 April 1999
With help from Nike, Miramax and TV Guide, Fatboy Slim puts some Rockafeller in his skank ...
Kelly Willis: Well Traveled but Hopeful
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 4 April 1999
Singer Kelly Willis has stayed true to herself despite a turbulent country career. Now, things are looking up. ...
Sleater-Kinney: The Roxy, Los Angeles
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 15 April 1999
THE THRIFT-shop slummers and the baby-T cutie-pies who crammed the Roxy for Sleater-Kinney's L.A. performance only drove home what's become painfully obvious: This Olympia, Washington, ...
Limp Bizkit: Anything but Stale
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 18 April 1999
Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst combines charisma with marketing instincts that have spelled success for the rap-metal band. Up next: movies and more. ...
Dru Hill, Faith Evans: Faith Evans, Dru Hill: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 19 April 1999
Evans and Dru Hill Outshine Lackluster Material ...
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Krayzie Bone: Krayzie Bone: Bone Thug, Not Boneheaded
Interview by Marc Weingarten, Vibe, May 1999
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's Krayzie Bone isn't all that bananas. Especially when it's time to make moves that make serious dollars and much sense. ...
Jordan Knight: Jordan Knight (Interscope)
Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 1999
KNIGHT MAY have served his musical apprenticeship by doing the electric boogaloo in stone-washed jeans when he was a member of New Kids on the ...
Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 1999
HAVE PITY on Moby. Five years ago, he was techno's poster boy, the artist who was largely responsible for pushing electronic music up from the ...
Missy Elliott: Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott: Da Real World (Gold Mind/EastWest)
Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 1999
JUST TWO albums into her solo career, Missy Elliott understands all too well that trying to keep one step ahead of the Zeitgeist isn't easy. ...
Pavement: Taking the High Road
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 1999
Pavement aims for wider appeal — but with just a few pop concessions on its own indie terms. ...
K-Ci & Jojo: The Kings of Sing
Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 1999
Two brothers raised on gospel are at the forefront of R&B's current renaissance ...
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 1999
A Smartly Wrapped Package: All That Music & More tour's acts fly by in a format tailored to kids. ...
Dido, Kendall Payne: the Troubadour, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 27 August 1999
Dido's Electronic-Folk Goes in Search of Depth ...
Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 25 September 1999
CREED IS THE BIGGEST-SELLING BAND you've never heard of. The Florida quartet was one of 1998's unlikeliest grass-roots success stories, a band that legitimized that ...
No Doubt: House of Blues, L.A.
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 8 October 1999
No Doubt, Stefani Leave Fans in High Spirits ...
Backstreet Boys: Arrowhead Pond, Anaheim CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 16 October 1999
There's a Backstreet Boy for Every Teenage Girl ...
Wyclef Jean: House of Blues, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 18 October 1999
Wyclef Jeans Moves Keep 'em Guessing ...
Smash Mouth: The Long Beach Pyramid, California
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 4 November 1999
EVERONE WHO'S HEARD Smash Mouth's 1997 hit 'Walkin' on the Sun' knows that the band can make Farfisa-driven garage-pop for mall rats, but it's capable ...
The Olivia Tremor Control, Stereolab: Stereolab, Olivia Tremor Control: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 23 November 1999
Stereolab Piles On Sounds to Create an Eclectic Tempest ...
Wu-Tang Clan Take L.A. On New Album
Interview by Marc Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 4 August 2000
In the studio with the Wu-Tang Clan ...
Interview by Marc Weingarten, Vibe, December 2000
Limp Bizkit spearheaded a wildly successful movement in 1999 with their angst-filled rap'n'rock tunes. And in the face of much criticism, these pro-Napster punks have ...
Interview by Marc Weingarten, Rock's Backpages, 23 December 2000
How a Brummie came to host the most respected public radio show in L.A. ...
The Kinks: BBC Sessions 1964-1977
Review by Marc Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2001
GOD BLESS THE BBC for dustingoff its rock archives and releasing them all on CD. This latest batch of goodies is a collection of performances ...
Elvis Presley: The Great Late Elvis: Taking Vegas-era Elvis seriously
Comment by Marc Weingarten, Slate, 16 August 2001
WHEN IT COMES TO the late-period Elvis — you know, the one that played the best rooms in Las Vegas and ate far too many ...
Review by Marc Weingarten, Slate, 25 October 2001
TO READ THE reviews of Bob Dylan's new album, Love and Theft, you would think the rock legend had returned to the salad days of ...
Madlib: Grooving on Artistic Freedom
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 20 January 2002
Madlib's funhouse creations have won a notable following. But rap stardom isn't his goal. ...
Chuck E. Weiss: When the Gig Ended, His New Career Began
Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 27 January 2002
Story line: Los Angeles club legend records first album in his late 40s, and now follows it with a stellar effort that includes a 32-year-old ...
Mary Chapin Carpenter/Anne Lamott: Royce Hall, UCLA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 28 January 2002
THE PAIRING OF author and singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter at UCLA's Royce Hall on Saturday could have gone any number of ways. ...
N.E.R.D.: N*E*R*D: Producers Who Shape-Shift
Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 10 February 2002
After years of helping others create hip-hop hits, N*E*R*D makes its own album and turns the genre inside-out. ...
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 2 March 2002
ANYONE WHO attended the rap triple bill at the Universal Amphitheater on Thursday looking for a complex worldview or an evolved take on the usual ...
Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 2 March 2002
The musical genre finally gets its day in the sun with an intimate and detailed documentary that's a coup of sorts for the lower-profile station. ...
N.E.R.D.: In Search Of... (Virgin)
Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 10 March 2002
AS THE IN-DEMAND production team the Neptunes, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo have tended to build hip-hop hits around hard, in-your-face hooks that aren't easily ...
Sonic Youth: All Tomorrow's Parties: A Festival That Pops With Edge
Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 13 March 2002
UCLA's ambitious All Tomorrow's Parties fest, curated by avant-rockers Sonic Youth, embraces the underground. ...
Nas: House of Blues, West Hollywood
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 29 March 2002
THE CYCLES OF pop music history are as hard to fathom as the mysteries of the cosmos, or at least the logic behind choosing Grammy ...
Carla Bozulich, Willie Nelson: Carla Bozulich: Cafe Club Fais Do-Do
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 3 April 2002
A CANNY BLEND of leather-worn country standards and original compositions that sound like they could be, Willie Nelson's 1975 album Red Headed Stranger functions as ...
OutKast, The Roots: Audiotistic: "Happy Hip-Hop" Sets Festival's Vibe
Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 11 April 2002
The organizers of Audiotistic expect 37,000 fans to show up for an event that plays against type. ...
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 20 April 2002
ALL THE PARENTS who dropped off their kids at the Incubus concert Thursday at the Forum, and all those middle-aged chaperons with earplugs conspicuously shutting ...
The Coup: Working Through His Anger
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2002
Boots Riley of the rap group the Coup lashes out against the war in Afghanistan and the corporate co-opting of hip-hop music. ...
Afrika Bambaataa, Slum Village: Afrika Bambaataa/Slum Village: El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2002
HIP-HOP'S PAST and present converged at the El Rey Theatre on Thursday, and the results were predictably erratic. The first act, Slum Village, is a ...
Radio Patter From the Past: Vintage DJs Rock On
Essay by Marc Weingarten, The New York Times, 9 May 2002
THE DISC jockey's voice, oddly compelling, comes booming out of the computer speakers as if shot from a cannon. ...
The Vines: Troubadour, West Hollywood
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2002
JOINING THE growing parade of raw, stripped-down rock bands (the Strokes, the White Stripes, the Hives, etc.), the Vines played the requisite big-buzz show at ...
At Indie Music Shop, A Guide via MP3s
Report by Marc Weingarten, The New York Times, 16 May 2002
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Warren Zevon: A Literary Answer to Lyricist's Block
Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2002
Musician/bookworm Warren Zevon recruits famous authors for lyrics on a new album. ...
Neil Young: Bio Warfare: Why did Neil Young try to squelch Shakey?
Comment by Marc Weingarten, salon.com, 24 May 2002
SHAKEY, A 786-PAGE biography of Neil Young that's just been published, almost wasn't. For that reason, it serves as an apt metaphor for the way ...
Report by Marc Weingarten, Slate, 24 May 2002
Why did Neil Young try to squelch Shakey? ...
Trey Anastasio: Greek Theatre, L.A.
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2002
TREY ANASTASIO has found the funk. For his first tour as a solo artist, the guitarist and primary songwriter for Phish has left that band's ...
Badly Drawn Boy: Amoeba Records, Hollywood
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2002
WITH HIS WOOL skull cap, scraggly beard and black T-shirt bedecked with glitter graffiti, English singer-songwriter Damon Gough, a.k.a. Badly Drawn Boy, could have been ...
Raphael Saadiq: Instant Vintage
Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2002
SAADIQ WOULD rather lay back than throw down. He's got a touch of Smokey Robinson's liquid satin in his phrasing and a complete absence of ...
The Promise Ring: Breaking Out of the Emo Ghetto
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2002
Faced with health problems and a genre that felt confining, the Promise Ring chose a radical-and lush-new direction. ...
Review by Marc Weingarten, Slate, 25 June 2002
Nelly's Confusion: Is the rapper a preacher or a party animal? Don't ask him. ...
Nelly: There's Joy in Nellyville
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2002
A potential big-league baseball player, the St. Louis rapper keeps his eye on the ball when it comes to music. ...
Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 8 August 2002
Last year, Jim Ward and his cohorts in At the Drive-In did the unthinkable: They broke up a successful band. After seven years and on ...
Grateful Dead: A Long, Staid Trip: How Deadheads ruined the Grateful Dead
Book Review by Marc Weingarten, Slate, 30 August 2002
"THERE IS nothing like a Grateful Dead Concert," the old bumper stickers read. After attending my first 10 Dead shows, I soon realized this wasn't ...
Robert Plant: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 14 September 2002
AS A '70s icon, Robert Plant can't help it if he evokes fuzzy nostalgic feelings, but he is trying his best not to simply phone ...
Rush: Staples Center, Los Angeles
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 25 September 2002
SOME MIGHT ARGUE that change is the sine qua non of musical artistry, but Rush fans might contend that predictable output yields greater rewards. ...
Cody ChesnuTT, CeeLo Green, N.E.R.D., Iggy Pop: Shortlist showcase stumbles
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 31 October 2002
THE SHORTLIST PRIZE for Artistic Achievement in Music is out to rectify years of Grammy frustration, and as it attempts to become an American analogue ...
Porcupine Tree, Radiohead: Old and New Wave
Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 7 November 2002
Underground movement nurtures new progressive rock bands and supports existing ones. ...
Dru Hill: Dru World Order (Def Soul)
Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 1 December 2002
FUNNY HOW A little taste of failure can send a high-flying artist crashing down to earth. Two years ago, Sisqo's 'Thong Song' was a ubiquitous ...
Review by Marc Weingarten, Entertainment Weekly, 25 July 2003
A DECADE AGO, Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell was one of rock's beloved oddballs. With his bodices and feather boas, his neo-pagan notions of earth ...
The Advantage: Resurrecting the Riffs, A Nintendo Rock Band
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, The New York Times, 29 April 2004
AS A YOUNG fan of Nintendo video games and an aspiring musician in Nevada City, Calif., Spencer Seim spent a lot of time in his ...
Björk, Todd Rundgren: Déjà Entendu: Björk
Comment by Marc Weingarten, Slate, 14 September 2004
BJÖRK HAS A KNACK for making records that don't sound like anyone else's. With each new offering—from 1993's Debut, an album that roamed freely through ...
Review by Marc Weingarten, Uncut, January 2005
At last, the Cobain motherlode: three CDs and one DVD, with 81 songs, 68 unreleased. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 17 February 2005
O.C. was the birthplace of surf music and the fabled, amped-up Fender guitar. So take that, L.A. ...
DC Talk, Jars of Clay: Christian Rock is on a mission
Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 14 April 2005
It's about new audiences and a stronger genre, the promoter of Fishfest says. ...
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2005
The electronic music poster boy picks up a guitar and uncages his rock 'n' roll animal. ...
Kasabian: Dreams of Brit-rock Empire
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2005
The four mates of Kasabian would like a shot at the crown before the sun sets on the new UK scene. ...
Lamb of God: Coming in Loud: Sounds of the Underground
Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2005
The Sounds of the Underground tour screams into L.A., delivering what's new in metal. ...
Avril Lavigne: Just where is the next stop on this tour?
Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 11 August 2005
HO-HUM. Another city, another sold-out concert date for Avril Lavigne. Not that the punky pop star could tell you exactly where the next arena full ...
Mudvayne: Same sound, cleaner faces for Mudvayne
Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 18 August 2005
WHEN KISS wiped off the makeup in the early 1980s, heavy metal's cartoon Gorgons rubbed away much of their mystique as well. Hence, the band's ...
Leonard Cohen's Troubles May Be a Theme Come True
Report by Marc Weingarten, The New York Times, 6 October 2005
Betrayal and bitterness have been running themes in Leonard Cohen's work ever since Songs of Leonard Cohen, the Canadian singer-songwriter's debut album, appeared in 1968. ...
Rock Fans, Sit Back, Relax, Enjoy the Show
Comment by Marc Weingarten, The New York Times, 24 January 2006
IN THIS digital age of expanding leisure options, some old-school ideas still have staying power. ...
Kendrick Lamar: Sorry, rock fans. Hip hop is the only genre that matters right now.
Comment by Marc Weingarten, The Washington Post, 17 April 2018
NO ONE WHO has heard Kendrick Lamar's stunning album Damn could be at all surprised that it is the first nonclassical or jazz recording to ...
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