Email Author Rob Harvilla

Awards

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 13, 2009

  "On 50 Cent's Self-Help Book"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 3, 2009

  ""On Michael Jackson's 'This Is It'"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 8, 2009

  "Go See Phish at Least Once"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 5, 2008

  "A Running Diary of Hip-Hop Superfest Rock the Bells"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 17, 2008

  "Ride the Plastic Lightening"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 26, 2008

  "Why Chinese Democracy's Fine Print is Way More Fun than the Record Itself"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 1, 2007

  "The Fey Highwayman"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 9, 2007

  "The Disorientation of Lauryn Hill"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 8, 2007

  "Hot Hot Heat"

• 2008 - Deadline Club Awards/New York City Society of Professional Journalists, published March 8, 2007

  "Hot Hot Heat"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 18, 2006

  "Spankmaster and Servant"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 21, 2006

  "Get Busy Living"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 5, 2006

  "Crazy For You, But Not That Crazy"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 17, 2005

  "Powerpop for Now People"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 30, 2005

  "The Titmaster Tommy Lee"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 20, 2005

  "Race Against Rockism"

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2007 Stories by Rob Harvilla

• No Sleep for Brooklyn

  published March 13, 2007

  "I really don't like looking at the back of a record and seeing the word featuring a million times," says Brooklyn... More >>

• Hot Hot Heat

  published March 6, 2007

  This is why "This Is Why I'm Hot" is hot: Because it's hot. There are of course other reasons the breakout single from Mims, a Washington Heights... More >>

• Music

  published March 6, 2007

  Possibly Mythical Social Constructs People who don't go to SXSW who enjoy reading detailed reports from people who do go to... More >>

• Shredfest Engage

  published February 27, 2007

  At 53rd and Broadway Thursday night, there's a line stretched halfway around the block to get into The Color Purple. Wait, wait. No. That line is... More >>

• Splendour in the Crass

  published February 27, 2007

  There are truly evil men sent to prison for the rest of their natural lives for assaults less brutally visceral than that which Christina... More >>

• SXSW Preview Hoedown

  published February 27, 2007

  Earl Greyhound Those who fall for this bone-crushing atomic-power trio tend to fall pretty hard. The New Yorker called Ricc... More >>

• Music

  published February 20, 2007

  Gratuitous Nudity Pitchfork now posting naked photos of indie-rock stars for some reason. Another reason not to... More >>

• Music

  published February 13, 2007

  Literary Triumph Seven different people pitch a book on Weezer's Pinkerton to the 33 1/3 series. Yeah,... More >>

• The Unforgettable Fire

  published February 13, 2007

  To indulge in a bit of corny jargon, the Arcade Fire have a truly fantastic elevator pitch, assuming you ignore the fact that the pitch is... More >>

• Stoned and Rethroned

  published February 6, 2007

  As the Times has recently schooled us on both hipsters who like Justin Timberlake (an extension of the Top 40-loving crowd known in the... More >>

• Living With War

  published January 30, 2007

  In a perfect world, we could fixate entirely on the narrowest and gnarliest finish in Pazz & Jop history: Bob Dylan by 14 points and -4... More >>

• Stuff You Need to Know to Avoid Cultural Ostracism

  published January 23, 2007

  Unrequested Reunions Rage Against the Machine rise again to headline Coachella. Please be advised that this band has... More >>

• Every Molly Has an Emo Album

  published January 16, 2007

  We all have our problems. Let us first address those of Max Bemis. "Well, let me tell you this," announces Max Bemis, in one of many... More >>

• Comforting Sounds for Insufficiently Assured Editors

  published January 16, 2007

  I once tried to write while listening to Lady Sovereign and wound up hospitalized for two weeks. Last month in these pages More >>

• Stuff You Need to Know to Avoid Cultural Ostracism

  published January 16, 2007

  Illegal Mix Tapes DJ Swindle and Frank Lyon's Almatic, an occasionally splendid comingling of Nas and Al Green. More >>

• Music

  published January 9, 2007

  Exotic Diseases The disquieting social phenomenon wherein you think you see Craig Finn everywhere you go. Like Being... More >>

• The Backlash Variations

  published January 9, 2007

  Along with multiple articles about visual artists who use their own sperm as a medium, New York magazine's other truly splendid recent... More >>

• Power-Pop Majesty for the Majestically Powerless

  published January 9, 2007

  The cover shot of Sloan's 650th album echoes that of Television's Marquee Moon—four gaunt, haggard dudes stare down the... More >>

• The Iron Sheik

  published January 2, 2007

  I bristle, as I suppose he still does, whenever someone backhands Duncan Sheik with the "one-hit wonder" tag. He has two. "Barely Breathing" is... More >>

• Music

  published January 2, 2007

  Bizarre Resurgence Ladies and gentlemen, America—yes, that America, "Horse With No Name" America—now have a MySpace... More >>