Armin Rosen

Music Fans Feel the Power of a Long Tail
Fri, Nov 10, 2006, 12:00am

Chances are you have never heard of The Glaciers. And chances are that if you hadn't started reading this piece, you never would have. The band, which combines elements of alternative country, folk, and art rock, does not expect to make it big.

The Material Girl Does Malawi
Mon, Oct 30, 2006, 12:00am

Celebrity and reality have always occupied and will always occupy separate spheres.

Let's Get Ready to Rumble
Fri, Oct 20, 2006, 12:00am

We're told from a young age that, regardless of the problem, violence is not the solution. It isn't until we reach a slightly older age that we realize that this is a crock of bull.

Johnny Knoxville, Extraordinary Man
Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 12:00am

In the decidedly non-intellectual canon of MTV prime time programming, one show stands out as not only the absolute nadir of human intellectual development, but as the possible nadir of human development in general.

Bob Dylan in the 21st Century
Mon, Sep 18, 2006, 12:00am

Bob Dylan's concert at Harry Grove Stadium in Frederick, Md., opened with an unusual and sometimes incomprehensible rearrangement of "Maggie's Farm." I didn't know it at the time, but the show had reached its high point.

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