Email Author Andy Beta

2004 Stories by Andy Beta

• Castrato Beatbox Upstart Coughs Up Both Heat and Humidity

  published November 9, 2004

  For Medulla, Björk hewed her beats out of Rahzel and Mike Patton's epiglottises, Manhattan Transfer–ing them over in some sleek... More >>

• Gift of Gab

  published October 19, 2004

  Germany's Gabor Schablitzki, when not teamed with fellow producer Sören Bodner as the fraternal Wighnomy Bros., makes tracks as Robag Wruhme.... More >>

• Competing With Life

  published October 12, 2004

  A caveat: I can't handle these clusterfucks of industry. The glossy flyers, demos, Scion ads masquerading as street mags—all leeching to... More >>

• REMS Meet BPMS

  published October 5, 2004

  When Jeff Fell Ryan split from the No-Neck Blues Band in early 2000, he took with him not just his slinky Damo Suzuki... More >>

• Chapels of Love

  published September 14, 2004

  Only long after the messiahs have left the building and the doctrines have been chiseled into stone tablature do churches get erected. At best,... More >>

• Chemistry Class

  published July 27, 2004

  The records were clean white tiles, with hard corners and slick card surfaces—blank save for a smaller offset silver square that brought back... More >>

• Screeching Weasels Follow in Plastic Bertrand's Footsteps

  published July 13, 2004

  Ivan Smagghe is obsessed with death. He plotted how to Kill the DJ with square records and even had the balls-de-laire to call a comp... More >>

• Space Truckin'

  published May 18, 2004

  With all the excitement of watching an office temp download a Paris Hilton clip at his cubicle, that upside-down glow of the Apple logo... More >>

• Music

  published April 27, 2004

  The hiss of four-track airs may have been scrubbed off of Devendra Banhart's follow-up to his lo-fi Oh Me Oh My . . . debut, but plenty of... More >>

• Williamsburg couple opt for tantra trances over pickled cabbage

  published March 2, 2004

  On top of El Topo, all covered with synth cheese and nipple-length hair, it suddenly rises: a space ritual as practiced by a Williamsburg... More >>