Chris Parker

Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. ⇒ Read Randy Bickford’s Silver Jews feature story The Silver Jews formed in 1989 when poet David Berman got together with (then) Pavement members Bob Nastanovich and Stephen Malkmus. Berman’s the only consistent members, though his wife Cassie joins him […]

History may be written by the victors, but the fact that it’s written at all is testimony to our passion for putting frames around things. Perhaps when you string enough frames together, you get the illusion of movement. And motion, more than anything else, is what we’re all about. As Portastatic has aged, it’s grown […]

After playing in punk bands during the early ’80s, Rick Rubin founded Def Jam with Russell Simmons and helped launch the careers of Slayer, Run DMC, Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys. But he’s most recently made his reputation rehabilitating. Over the years, Rubin’s demonstrated a predilection for breathing new life into bands, particularly those […]

Like schools and sweater sales, the concert calendar slows down in the dead of summer. This year, the seasonal decline comes freshly exacerbated by high gas prices that discourage bands from making long tours and by relatively nearby mega-festivals like Tennessee’s Bonnaroo and Baltimore’s Virgin Festival, which attract troves of fans and ticket money to […]

We knew former Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard was prolific, we just didn’t know how far it extended. Beyond his scorecard-necessitating roster of projects producing a half dozen albums a year, Pollard is now receiving attention as a visual artist. In August, Pollard will release a coffee-table book of his collageswhich graced the covers […]