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2001 Stories by Simon Reynolds

• The Anti-Bling Kings

  published October 2, 2001

  Rap's a funny business, really. People will pay to experience as "entertainment" what in real life they'd run a mile from: bug-eyed sociopaths... More >>

• Tripping the Light Ecstatic

  published August 21, 2001

  Most ecstasy users do it at home or in a club. Street life is a little too random and unpredictable for such a cuddly drug. See, with E what you... More >>

• In Between Days

  published July 17, 2001

  Despite its twilight-zone title, the thing most people liked about Ghost World—Daniel Clowes's cult comic book about two teenage girl... More >>

• Disco Double Take

  published July 10, 2001

  Bang the Party prides itself on being "the last real underground house party in New York." Held upstairs in Frank's Lounge, a Fort Greene,... More >>

• Manifesto Destiny

  published May 15, 2001

  If writing is a pharmacopoeia (and why else read, if not to reach altered states of consciousness?), then the manifesto surely corresponds to the... More >>