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Rotten Tomatoes, May 18, 2012
...Scott for David Byrne, Eddie Redmayne for Tom Verlaine, Seth Green as Lou Reed (ha!), Zach Galifianakis as Lester Bangs. We'll see. I hope the Taylor Lautner 'trilogy of urban psuedo-sport' ends with part three devoted to Ultimate Frisbee, just for the...
Los Angeles Times, May 1, 2012
...establishment but which also made nonwhite scenesters uncomfortable. In a 1979 Village Voice piece titled "White Noise Supremacists," Lester Bangs wrote that a band called Shrapnel had a song called "Hey Little Gooks!" and he asked a member, Legs McNeil,...
Los Angeles Times, May 1, 2012
...establishment but which also made nonwhite scenesters uncomfortable. In a 1979 Village Voice piece titled "White Noise Supremacists," Lester Bangs wrote that a band called Shrapnel had a song called "Hey Little Gooks!" and he asked a member, Legs McNeil,...
Las Vegas City Life, April 26, 2012
...ever has, and better than most; at his best he brings to mind a more disciplined and educated Lester Bangs, or Tom Wolfe without the white suit and the bullshit mannerisms. While it may earn him no fans among the bloggers and instapundits who clog our...
Washington City Paper, April 4, 2012
...late ’60s, fanzines have played a pivotal role in music journalism—those were the days of Bomp! (in which Lester Bangs and Greil Marcus had early bylines) and Crawdaddy! If the punctuation tells you something, it’s that the common denominator of...
Salt Lake Tribune, April 2, 2012
...Lake Tribune First Published 2 hours ago • Updated 1 hour ago You’ve no doubt heard of Lester Bangs. You’ve probably read a review, or book, by Greil Marcus. Among the rarefied field of readers who follow rock music criticism and journalism,...
Native Salt Laker turned Brooklynite Kevin Avery reads from book about famed rock critic Paul Nelson
Salt Lake Tribune, April 2, 2012
...Lake Tribune First Published 12 minutes ago • Updated 12 minutes ago You’ve no doubt heard of Lester Bangs. You’ve probably read a review, or book, by Greil Marcus. Among the rarefied field of readers who follow rock music criticism and journalism,...
Yahoo! Music, March 2, 2012
...over the years and still can't tell you what "N.Y. Stars" or "Ennui" sound like means Lester Bangs owes me money, too. Take Lester's advice, buy Nico's The Marble Index if you want to feel the silence. 21) Magic and Loss: Ha Ha, another album...
Melbourne Age, March 2, 2012
...cause, I believed, to kindling. Marcus, the music critics' critic. The taut-jawed contemporary of great gonzos such as Lester Bangs and Richard Meltzer, scrivening from scholarly vantage about totemic artists and their ectomorphic positioning in his...
Ferndale Patch, March 2, 2012
...Nelson, an imaginative talent who brought a literary bent to rock criticism. He's not as hellacious as Lester Bangs or as heady as Greil Marcus, but he is easily one of the more endearing rock/culture critics/writers of the latter 20th century. This book...
Broadway.com, February 29, 2012
...Freddie as begins to suspect that Tom Ripley (Damon) may not be the man he claims to be... Lester Bangs in Almost Famous (2000) In Cameron Crowe's semi-autobiographical film, Hoffman channeled a legendary rock journalist who mentors the movie’s young...
Examiner.com, February 25, 2012
...dancing in there as well but I may have just been filling in the blanks at that point. Lester Bangs most likely would have been proud of this bands on stage banter given it was much akin to how he used to write (Which influenced me in case readers...
Student Operated Press, February 24, 2012
Brisbane Times, February 24, 2012
...cause, I believed, to kindling. Marcus, the music critics' critic. The taut-jawed contemporary of great gonzos such as Lester Bangs and Richard Meltzer, scrivening from scholarly vantage about totemic artists and their ectomorphic positioning in his...
