Email Author Richard Gehr

2004 Stories by Richard Gehr

• Soca to me Baby

  published November 30, 2004

  Not unlike Mark Wahlberg's screw-loose hoser in I ♥ Huckabees, Lif Up Yuh Leg an Trample is preoccupied with fire and... More >>

• Music as Sex

  published August 17, 2004

  Free improvisation is the automatic writing, the abstract expressionism, or as British critic Ben Watson most aptly describes it, the "stand-up... More >>

• Collective Kicks Off Trilogy With Proudly Pretentious Tunes

  published August 10, 2004

  All "accusations of artistic fascism, philosophical heavy-handedness, obscurantism, and anti-modernity" should be directed solely at... More >>

• Music

  published May 4, 2004

  The Incredible String Band's cryptic whimsy and Vashti Bunyan's beautiful balladry have quietly resurfaced in a bushel of great new bands, and... More >>

• East Via Shortwave

  published March 30, 2004

  Maverick ethnomusicologists Alan and Richard Bishop, two-thirds of magical-surrealist improvisers the Sun City Girls, have been wandering the... More >>

• Loss Leader

  published January 6, 2004

  The premise of New Yorker movie reviewer David Denby's sober memoir about losing a whole lotta money in the stock market sounds like a... More >>