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Rumors of My Demise – Evan Dando

by: Jackie Lo Twenty-five years ago, at a mutual friend's wedding, I was wandering through the venue, looking down and not paying attention, when I walked smack dab into someone's chest - hard. We both stopped, startled by the collision, and immediately launched into a flurry of embarrassed apologies. The 21-year-old version of me couldn't believe it when I looked up and realized I'd just run straight into Evan Dando. I […]

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Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti

By - Jackie Lo   Art Sex Music is an autobiography by Cosey Fanni Tutti, an English performance artist, musician and writer, best known for hertime in the avant-garde groups Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey. Tutti first performed under the name Cosmosis and changed to the name of Cosey Fanni Tutti after it was suggested to her by a friend based on the title of the opera Così fan […]

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Lollapalloza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock’s Wildest Festival by Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour

By - Jackie Lo My first music festival was Lollapalooza. It was 1997 and my friends and I piled in to whoever had the most reliable car at the time and drove the 3.5 hours to see Julian & Damian Marley and the Uprising Band, James, Korn, Tricky, Snoop Doggy Dogg (as he was billed back then), Tool, and Prodigy on the main stage with Failure, Pugs, Lost Boyz, Demolition […]

todayApril 17, 2025 56

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“Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise & Fall of SST Records” by Jim Ruland

By - Jackie Lo SST was THE record label everyone wanted to be signed to in its heyday. What started as a mail order business for ham radio enthusiasts that Greg Ginn created when he was just 12 years old, eventually became one of the most influential independent record labels putting out some of the greatest underground records of the 80s and 90s. “Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise & Fall […]

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This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music

By - Jackie Lo Representation is as we all know is so important. And ME being a musician that is also a woman I have always looked for the other women in music to help navigate me. Whether it be female composers when I was studying classical music, women in rock bands when I discovered guitars and writing rock records, to all my fellow female radio DJs out there showcasing […]

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