Rock & Pop

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Salon.com July 23, 2002 Charlotte Robinson	"You Really Got Me" Desperate for a hit in 1964, an obscure band named the Kinks slashed up a cheap guitar amp with a razor blade. The rest was history.
Salon.com July 16, 2002 Jim DeRogatis	How Ozzy lost his cool At one time the clown prince of darkness was actually dark. Post-"Osbournes" he's just a clown.
Salon.com July 16, 2002 Erich Pfeifer	The Madman and me Ozzy and I crossed paths on the worst day of my life. Boy, am I grateful.
Salon.com July 9, 2002 Greg Milner	The undeniable truth about Burma Mission of Burma recorded 21 songs, helped invent post-punk, and left a legacy that resonated from R.E.M. to Moby. More than 20 years later, no one will let the band die.
Reason July 2002 Brian Doherty	Can't Stop the Music Don't cry for the record company man. Stan Cornyn's memoir Exploding: The Highs, Hits, Hype, Heroes, and Hustlers of the Warner Music Group still feels like a pitch.
Salon.com June 28, 2002 Sean Elder	The death of Rolling Stone The magazine that invented rock journalism lost its reason to exist years ago. Now, with a British lad-mag editor taking the helm, it's time to pull the plug.
Salon.com June 26, 2002 Bomani Jones	Who's bad? Amid a messy $200 million dispute with Sony, Michael Jackson adopts temporary blackness and summons Al Sharpton to his cause. But racism hasn't torpedoed your career, Michael: Your music sucks.
Salon.com June 24, 2002 Paul A. Toth	"More Songs About Buildings and Food" It's 1978, and a band of Manhattan art-school geeks called Talking Heads teams with Brian Eno to produce the funkiest nervous-breakdown record ever made.
Salon.com June 20, 2002 Charles Taylor	That's how strong his love is Singer Bryan Ferry has always been a Casanova -- helpless in the face of love, transforming his lust into flights of ardor.
Salon.com June 19, 2002 Andrew John Ignatius Vontz	The strange triumph of electronic music It may not be on the radio, but it's the most influential -- and unifying -- force in pop music today.
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