Rule Forty Two: The Self-Aggrandizing Website of Gavin Edwards

As you might remember, last month I visited Mötley Crüe in their rehearsal studio and accidentally broke international celebrity-gossip news. I was actually there to report an article about the band prepping for their summer tour, which is now available online at the Rolling Stone website.
Much to my surprise, the four people in the accompanying […]

posted 23 July 2008 in Articles, Outside. 1 comment

I was delighted to hear Snoop Dogg’s country-rock track “My Medicine” getting played on our local alternative-rock radio station; it was one of the oddball standouts of his latest album, Ego Trippin’–which I reviewed a few months back for Rolling Stone. I originally had cooked up a much longer version of the Sonny and Cher […]

posted 21 July 2008 in Outside, Reviews. no comments yet

The second season of everybody’s favorite new TV show, Mad Men, starts July 27 on AMC. I recently visited the show and saw the capacious set of the Sterling Cooper advertising agency: the desks had IBM Selectric typewriters, the ashtrays were filled with lipstick-stained cigarette butts, and the secretaries were wearing tight dresses and foundation […]

posted 30 June 2008 in Outside. 2 comments

I’ve got another piece up at the Barnes and Noble Review: this one’s a short review of The Complete Peanuts: 1967 to 1968. Two additional buying recommendations in a similar vein: 1. Schulz and Peanuts, the stellar biography from last year by David Michaelis. 2. Any previous volume of The Complete Peanuts (or all of […]

posted 18 June 2008 in Outside. no comments yet

Every now and then I learn a nugget of information that really lights up the gossip columns and the blogosphere. I think the last time might have been when Ashton Kutcher told me about the Bush twins’ visit to his house (“I go upstairs to T.J.’s room and I can smell the green wafting out […]

posted 12 June 2008 in Outside. no comments yet

Two short items by me went up in recent days on the Rolling Stone website: a review of R.E.M.’s show last week at the Hollywood Bowl and an item on Joe Perry writing the music for “Walk This Way” (part of the “100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time” package).
I am pleased to report that […]

posted 2 June 2008 in Articles, Outside, Reviews. no comments yet

Beck’s got a new album coming out soon, produced by the mighty Danger Mouse. I wrote a news story about it, which is in the new issue of Rolling Stone.
The album’s probably called Modern Guilt; when I spoke with Beck, he kept changing his mind and was trying to make a final decision.
“Chinese Democracy is […]

posted 16 May 2008 in Articles, Outside. 3 comments

With the encouragement of the mighty Bill Tipper, I’ve been doing some book reviews for the Barnes & Noble Review (which hasn’t gotten a lot of attention, but is worth your time–there’s some real good stuff in there).
Last year I reviewed Clapton: The Autobiography (who knew he had slept with Yvonne Elliman?); last week I […]

posted 9 May 2008 in Outside, Reviews. no comments yet

A few months ago, I went to New York City and South Carolina to write a profile of teenage country superstar Taylor Swift for Rolling Stone. (Between New York and South Carolina: a private jet flight. Between Greenville and Spartanburg in South Carolina: not much except a BMW plant.) The piece got dropped from the […]

posted 4 May 2008 in Articles, Outside. no comments yet