Last Friday, Rhino Records re-issued the Replacements' 1984 classic Let It Be as a deluxe box set—a remaster of the original LP, a disc of alternate takes and a live.
Hey, in case you missed it, I’m so thrilled to have written the liner notes for Rhino’s new reissue of the Replacements' all-time classic Let It Be. It’s an LP.
Sometimes, when I can't face my deadlines, I have this conversation with myself: "Hey Beth, that review/feature/cultural meditation isn’t going to write itself. Every minute that ticks by is one.
Barney Bubbles' Imperial Bedroom cover art as interpreted by Hamell on Trial (and featured in the Paranoid Style's hit video "Barney Bubbles." Well, we haven't done one of these for.
I was hoping to avoid this, but I guess in my heart I knew it would probably have to happen. And anyway, it was the least I could do for.
In case you missed it, I wrote about the rad new reissue of the Replacements' Pleased To Meet Me over at Pitchfork, a punk record infused with producer Jim Dickinson's.
Over at The Ringer, I wrote about the 35th anniversary of The Talking Heads' amazing concert film Stop Making Sense and the ways in which David Byrne and Jonathan Demme's.
Over at The Ringer my buddy Adam Nayman and I got deep into the weeds and chose our twelve favorite tracks from the new sixty song Replacements' box set Dead.
