The new issue of Rolling Stone has two of the magazine’s perennial features: a cover image of Barack Obama (his fourth, I believe) and an article by me on Blink-182 (my fifth). The article isn’t available online, so if you want to read about Travis Barker’s harrowing recovery and the band’s reunion, you’ll have to […]
posted 13 August 2009 in Articles, Self-reflexive. no comments yet
I don’t hear Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” as much as I used to, which is for the best, really. But it came up last week on the Sirius-XM ’80s station, and I thought of something that I never noticed twenty-four years ago–you don’t need to “install” microwave ovens. You put them on the counter […]
posted 11 August 2009 in Tasty Bits. 2 comments
Photographed a few years back in a rural graveyard in New Zealand.
posted 7 August 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
I realized this morning that two recent albums–Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion and Wonderlick’s Topless at the Arco Arena–have something unusual in common. Their titles include the names of concert venues despite not being live records. Can anybody think of any others? (The MPP is a Gehry-designed shed in Maryland; Jackson Browne recorded “The Load-Out/Stay” […]
posted 6 August 2009 in Tasty Bits. 4 comments
Part two of my two-part “Where Are They Now?” series is Right Said Fred. As with the Spin Doctors, this is up-to-date as of 2004. WHERE ARE THEY NOW?: RIGHT SAID FRED By Gavin Edwards A detailed yet incomplete list of the things Right Said Fred were too sexy for: their shirt, their car, their […]
posted 3 August 2009 in Archives, Unpublished. no comments yet
These garbage cans are all over Disneyland: Every time I saw one, it seemed like a friendly request to be more wasteful. The politest form of antienvironmentalism possible!
posted 31 July 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
Another entry from the Andy Warhol Diaries. Sunday, July 3, 1977 Some blacks recognized me a few times this weekend, and I’m trying to figure out what they recognize so I can somehow sell it to them, whatever it is.
posted 30 July 2009 in Excerpts. no comments yet
Last week, I went to Las Vegas for the opening date of the reunion tour of Blink-182 (a band I’ve written four articles on previously, including this 1999 feature, this 2000 cover story, and this 2003 account of playing for troops in the Middle East). If you’re curious about whether the boys had matured during […]
posted 29 July 2009 in Outside. no comments yet
Five years ago, I started work on one of those rock-magazine perennial “Where Are They Now?” features. This version was going to focus on musicians from the ’90s, so a moderate amount of diplomacy was needed, given that the musicians in question might think of themselves as vital artists on the verge of a major […]
posted 20 July 2009 in Articles, Unpublished. 4 comments
