Email Author Steve Boland

1996 Stories by Steve Boland

• Swell La Donnas

  published August 22, 1996

  Consider the plight of America's small-town punks. Over the past two decades the punk-rock subculture in cities and media centers has grown from a... More >>

• Ultra Violence

  published August 1, 1996

  When a writer at the New York Times coined the phrase "heroin chic" to describe those underaged bulimia babes who have defined the fashion scene... More >>

• Playlist

  published May 9, 1996

  Hootie & the Blowfish Fairweather Johnson (Atlantic) Listening to this album put me in mind of a line from an episode of the... More >>

• Lush Life

  published May 9, 1996

  Miki Berenyi, the lead singer of England's Lush, would like to light a fire beneath the rather placid audiences she's encountered of late. "A lot... More >>

• Getting Pretty Hectic

  published April 25, 1996

  At a north-downtown practice space, testosterone drips as a competent but sadly predictable bar band runs through covers of tunes by such hormonal... More >>

• The Electrolux Company

  published April 18, 1996

  Mike Elkerton is a rock-and-roll musician in love with Americana's cliches. So when he's told that his latest band, Electrolux, conjures up images... More >>

• Love Story

  published April 11, 1996

  Somehow it's appropriate that the members of Love and Rockets are figuratively climbing out of their graves. As part of Bauhaus, a seminal... More >>

• Divide and Conquer

  published March 28, 1996

  Not long ago, subcultural clans seemed a lot easier to define. For example, citizens of the hetero world once knew (or thought they knew)... More >>

• PLAYLIST

  published February 14, 1996

  Salif Keita "Folon"...the Past (Mango) Observers who argue that blending music from different regions or cultures can't help but... More >>

• PLAYLIST

  published February 7, 1996

  Pizzicato Five The Sound of Music by Pizzicato Five (Matador) Self-conscious camp is a volatile commodity. If practitioners of same... More >>