“In France they call us The Cowboys,” says MSTRKRFT’s JFK. This statement is admitted with a mixture of pride and regret. Pride that he and his equally hard-drinking friend, and long-time production counterpart, Al-P, are acknowledged as serious party starters in the country where their glitchy electro is most at home, and regret for some of the things that they went through in order to gain that reputation. - - - MSTRKRFT featuring John Legend – ‘Heartbreaker' - - - It seems
Pride Month has come and gone, Gentle Reader, with no comment from this desk. It’s not that I’m in some way insensitive to the subject; instead it’s more of a desire, once again, to stay off the beaten path. And in that spirit, I do indeed have a story of Gay History...but it’s not from the Summer of ’69...instead, this story was already well underway before the Summer of ’29. So put on something très chic and let’s head on over to Harlem...at the time of the Renaissance...because it’s t
Christopher Nelson by James Truitt The Saturday following the summer solstice was shaping up to be an eventful one. Between the spectacle of the Rock‘n’Roll Marathon, the unbeatable party-vibe of Pride, and an impromptu mass-moonwalk tribute going down on South Jackson St, there was a ton of great stuff set to happen all over our summer-crazed city. Add to that already mighty list the relatively under-publicized (and free!!!) Georgetown Music Festival — itself combing powers with Sea
ALBUM OF THE MONTH: Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs) , by Patterson Hood Patterson Hood’s last solo release was a somber acoustic affair. This one ain’t. In fact, this collection of songs from Hood’s archives is not dissimilar from a Drive-By Truckers release. Sure, I miss Cooley’s guitar and the Truckers triple guitar interplay. But the grittiness of Hood’s songwriting prevails, packaged in songs ranging from the boisterous “I Understand Now” to the tender “Pride of th
