Email Author Rafer Guzman

1998 Stories by Rafer Guzman

• Raga 'n' Roll

  published January 29, 1998

  The last time East Indian music was "hip," four white English lads were directly responsible. The Beatles popularized the sounds of the sitar and... More >>

• Fools On the Hill

  published January 29, 1998

  Noel Gallagher is sitting in the back of a van, speeding through Fairfax, Virginia, the second stop on the American leg of Oasis' 1998 world tour.... More >>

• Short Cuts

  published January 29, 1998

  Linda Smith Preference: Selected Songs, 19871991 (Harriet) Spare, honest, perceptive, and passionate in a peculiarly subdued... More >>

• Fried Food for Thought

  published January 22, 1998

  Some of Rick Miller's first sexual fantasies came to him while assembling mobile homes in his dad's factory in Henderson, North Carolina. A group... More >>

• Short Cuts

  published January 22, 1998

  Various Artists Star Rise (Real World) In 1990 Michael Brook, a New-Age guitarist and producer, collaborated with Nusrat Fateh... More >>

• Short Cuts

  published January 15, 1998

  Ben Folds Five Naked Baby Photos (Caroline) This is the proverbial "contractual obligation" album: When Ben Folds Five signed to... More >>

• Folk Explosion!

  published January 15, 1998

  Toward the end of this week, more than a dozen singers-songwriters will begin making their way to Broward County to compete in the South Florida... More >>

• Short Cuts

  published January 8, 1998

  Supersonic Wall to Wall Moustache (Sire) "Welcome to the fucked-up chemical beats of Supersonic," announces this band's press... More >>

• Electrical Engineering

  published January 1, 1998

  At the start of the year, it looked as though 1997 would be, like 1996, the year of the Macarena. In January the hackles-raising dance track... More >>

• Foreign Ministers

  published January 1, 1998

  America's recent burst of creative energy -- grunge -- is definitely over, yet in 1997 the music industry continued to feed us a string of false... More >>

• Short Cuts

  published January 1, 1998

  Various Artists In Tha Beginning...There Was Rap (Priority Records) Say what you will about rap -- it's sexist, it promotes... More >>