Email Author Mikael Wood

2005 Stories by Mikael Wood

• Books

  published April 12, 2005

  Because they rarely pass up the opportunity to savage their (often deserving) targets in this "essential lexicon of rockological... More >>

• Light and Dark

  published April 5, 2005

  "We need some light," Ruth Quigley, the lank-haired keyboard player in Glasgow's Dogs Die in Hot Cars, said onstage last Tuesday night at Irving... More >>

• Jelly and Cheese

  published March 8, 2005

  If anyone was wondering where all the balding guys with beards and eyeglasses were two Fridays ago, he or she obviously hadn't bothered to check... More >>

• Brazilian Wacks

  published March 8, 2005

  Let's dispense with what you already know about the local world-beat quartet Brazilian Girls: Try Googling the lyrics to their song "Pussy" and... More >>

• Flops and Monks

  published February 15, 2005

  Most people come to Carnegie Hall to play their big hits," Ray Davies said two weeks ago, about halfway through Philip Glass's annual benefit for... More >>

• Songs About Music Share a Drink They Call Loneliness

  published February 15, 2005

  Most musicians never manage one song about music without seeming too earnest or embarrassed; Pretty Girls Make Graves had a good one a few years... More >>

• I Am . . . I Said

  published February 8, 2005

  Considering the photograph he and his people ran with, you can only imagine how the shoot for the cover of Gavin DeGraw's debut, Chariot,... More >>

• Identity Crisis

  published January 25, 2005

  Missing from the list of many-splendored things American Idol contestants can expect for their troubles—a working familiarity with the... More >>

• Don't Freak

  published January 25, 2005

  Ashlee Simpson may have made the best Hole record of the 21st century, but her fellow youthful Page Six denizen Lindsay Lohan is inarguably their... More >>

• Tom Thumb's Blues

  published January 25, 2005

  No one yelled "Judas" at Conor Oberst last Wednesday night at Town Hall, but the Bright Eyes frontman was definitely under assault. At any moment... More >>

• Ohio-Bred Pop-Punk Christians More Gallant Than Goofus

  published January 11, 2005

  "Somebody told me you had a boyfriend who looks like a girlfriend that I had in February of last year," Brandon Flowers sings in the Killers' big... More >>

• Woodwork Squeaks Again

  published January 4, 2005

  We started out as a dance band," Don Was said near the end of the first Was (Not Was) show in New York in 14 years. That much was verifiable by... More >>