The Record: Detroit's Music Journal (February, 2007)

This month's article is an expose on the Dirty Show and how this celebration of erotic art intersects with the Detroit music scene. Interviews include Adam B. Forman (Dutch Rubb) and Ron Zakrin (Goudron) along with the show's founder Jerry "Vile" Peterson.

The Record: Detroit's Music Journal (April 2007)

WDET quit broadcasting daytime music in late 2005 and I still have the angry letter I wrote concerning their programming changes at that time. Here’s an excerpt from it, “who guessed that this year there would be a programming change which would undermine nearly all the station’s music shows? WDET’s freeform programming is unique not only in Detroit, but around the country where such a format is all but extinct. The only saving grace is Liz Copeland, who has invigorated the station for years. Although with the way things are going she’s probably concerned about being replaced by an overnight gardening show.” Close enough. The masterminds at WDET have chosen to lose the highly regarded Copeland in favor of BBC’s World Service.

The Record: Detroit's Music Journal (January, 2006)

Adult’s Trouble at The Magic Stick

My coverage of a less than successful show by one of Detroit's finest bands. Also, I evaluate their move from duo to trio and review Adult's newest release, "Gimmie Trouble".

The Record: Detroit's Music Journal
(April, 2006)

A Walk On The Mild Side

My examination of an unfortunate case of censorship at Detroit's "Classic Rock" station and the amorphous FCC regulations which fueled it.

The following is a brief excerpt from "A Walk on the Mild Side: WCSX feels pressure from the FCC"

 As unlikely as it seems, I was shocked while listening to WCSX-FM the other day. The ‘classic rock station’ played Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side, but when they came to Candy who “in the backroom [was] everybody’s darlin’” they edited the words, “but she never lost her head, even when she was givin’ head”, cutting instead to “Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side.” Now it seems to me that this omission rendered the wild side absent from this song writ large. So I wondered why, after nearly two decades of playing this tune on motor city radio, did WCSX choose to edit those lines? Have we become such a conservative society that lyrics which were acceptable just a few years ago are now too racy for our airwaves, or is it just that the listeners of that station are too aged to appreciate an old fashioned blow job reference? In fact, I’d assume that with all the erectile dysfunction medications who advertise on WCSX they’d want this lyric played as often as possible in order to remind listeners of what they’ve been missing."

Social Anarchism (Summer, 2005)

"The Revolutionary Interzone"

An examination of the spatio/cultural location of revolutionaries within our society.