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The longneck tail.
Wes Phillips
It All Depends On Your Definition of "Random"
How random is the iPod shuffle? Steven Levy is of two minds (at least) on the subject.
New Reviews
Check out the new music reviews I've posted in Music">http://blog.stereophile.com/musicroom/facethemusic/">Music Room: Face the Music.
Joni's Back Pages
The story behind Hejira—on its 30th anniversary.
She's So Serious
Bagheera always looks so intense. She's either polishing up her unified field theory or plotting world domination.
Not As Easy As It Looks
Huckleberry pays particular attention to his scratching post technique.
Everything Must Go
What chapter comes after Chapter 11? The final chapter, of course. Looks like Tower Records has reached it.
The Composer as Smartass
Brahms loved making jokes. "And if a good one doesn't occur to me, then [I'll make] a bad one."
Iggy Pop's Backline Rider
Riders, or the contracts laying out what rock groups require for their performances, can range from straight ahead to the ridiculous—as in Van Halen's famous "no brown M&Ms" clause. Iggy Pop's backline rider is intentionally hilarious.
Dictionary of Roadie Slang
That's "roadie" as in cyclist. Decidedly non-PC and bound to offend folks who object to coarse language, but pretty funny for the rest of us.