Email Author R.J. Smith

1999 Stories by R.J. Smith

• Just Walk Away

  published April 13, 1999

  Kelly Willis has the most uncomfortable-making way of saying "thank you." Live a few weekends ago I heard her say it at least a dozen times,... More >>

• The Director's Cut

  published March 2, 1999

  Nobody in the genre today sees more possibility in hip-hop than Prince Paul. I say that in the face of his tour de force A Prince Among... More >>

• Out To Lurch

  published January 19, 1999

  Maybe the swellest thing about the first wave of electroboogie funk in the early '80s, "Planet Rock" and the Jonzun Crew, Space Invaders and all... More >>

• Mister Satan's Apprentice

  published January 12, 1999

  The life of the musician on the road is by law supposed to be about geography blurrily shooting past and an endless stream of faces, few of them... More >>