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by Brenda Hillegas After a quick round of phone tag, Bryan Callen calls me from Los Angeles, where he is getting a start to his day and planning on boxing later in the afternoon. “Badly,” he says. But it still sounds like a good time. We chat a bit about That Music Mag and my Read More

by Peter Brizick On December 2, 1984, two young bands entered what we know as the hallowed-halls of Maxwell’s in Hoboken, New Jersey.  One band, Antietam, a powerful trio led by a female guitar player, was scheduled to play their second gig.  Another band, Yo La Tengo, a trio Read More

by Peter Brizick We live in a disposable, replaceable, instant-gratification, here today and gone tomorrow age.  Much has been thought, written and spoken of this unfortunate reality.  According to the National Football League’s communication department, the average career of a Read More