"Now 23, rock's hottest producer is the closest pop music has come this decade to producing a conceptualist who can compare to Phil Spector in studio wizardry, business acumen, and steam-rolling ego"
Originally published November 4, 1986
In the Voice's "1986 Travel Supplement," Richard Hell, LL Cool J, Grace Paley, Taylor Meade, Patricia Field and more told us why they go where they go
May 24, 2019
“Hiphop is the most modern example, after capoeira and basketball, of African culture’s bent towards aesthetic combat — what the graffiti movement itself long ago defined as ‘style wars.’ ”
Originally published January 19, 1988
The 17th (or 18th) Annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll
January 18, 2019