Email Author James Hunter

2007 Stories by James Hunter

• Gold's Downtown 81

  published November 6, 2007

  Downtown 81, a newly released film (though the bulk of the footage was shot 25 years ago), presents a dramatic subset of New York art,... More >>

• Siouxsie's Mantaray

  published September 25, 2007

  On her recent Out of the Woods, Tracey Thorn, singing about artists who awed her early on, mentions "Bobby D in '63." But she also... More >>

• Alamo Race Track's Black Cat John Brown

  published July 17, 2007

  In 1977, a Dutch band with the Milan-sounding name Gruppo Sportivo showed up out of nowhere with a New Wave album released on Sire Records, home... More >>

• Blame it on Rio

  published May 8, 2007

  The second album from Philadelphia's Hail Social is not vaguely, but rather clearly, happily, lucidly, wallopingly '80s. When... More >>

• Sublimely nonchalant electro-pop majesty

  published March 20, 2007

  Tracey Thorn, of the now-on-hiatus duo Everything But the Girl, sings with the transparency of country air and the significance of Louis XIV... More >>

• More Analog Smudges For Your Purring Orchestral Pleasure

  published February 27, 2007

  Air are smudgers. Since the Versailles-born duo of Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin went worldwide with 1998's Moon Safari,... More >>