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Complicated Fun around the internets

It's been a year since my last roundup up non-blog writing, so here's the beautiful backlog. If you want to read what I've written here at complicatedfun.com over the same period, browse the archive to the right.

Recently posted elsewhere:

review: Lady Sovereign, Jigsaw (Las Vegas CityLife 4/9/09), review: Bob Mould, Life and Times (City Pages, 4/1/09), preview: The Ting Tings (City Pages 4/1/09), preview: Morrissey (City Pages 4/1/09), with more below, preview: Raphael Saadiq (City Pages 3/11/09), preview: Anni Rossi (City Pages 3/4/09), preview: Estelle (City Pages 2/25/09)

The Shifting Republic of K'Naan: A deft Somali rapper, now ensconced in Canada, prepares his American invasion (Village Voice 2/25/09), preview: Ralph's World (City Pages 2/25/09), preview: Juana Molina (City Pages 2/18/09), preview: Blitzen Trapper (City Pages 2/18/09)

CD review: P.O.S., Never Better (Las Vegas City Life 2/12/09), Slumdog Chamillionaire: Rapper K'Naan makes peace with Somalia, and pop for the world (City Pages 2/11/09), preview: A Celebration of Immigration to the Twin Cities (that's Jim Reilly in the photo) (City Pages 2/4/09)

CD review: Heartless Bastards, The Mountain (eMusic 2/3/09), CD review: Various artists, The Roots of Hip Hop (Las Vegas City Life 1/19/09), preview: The Big Pink: A Tribute to The Last Waltz (City Pages 1/21/09), Pazz and Jop ballot (Village Voice 1/21/09), review: From Hell: AC/DC at the Xcel again (Gimme Noise 1/20/09), preview: AC/DC (City Pages 1/14/08), preview: Lil Wayne (City Pages 1/14/09), preview: Best New Bands of 2008 (City Pages 1/14/09)

Artist of the Year: The makers of Trouble the Water (City Pages 12/24/08), preview: Hip-Hop Night at the Roxy (City Pages 12/24/08), Being Prince's Sister: Tyka Nelson steps out of her brother's shadow (City Pages, 12/10/08), preview: Mint Condition (City Pages 11/26/08)

Apocalypse Now: Muja Messiah (The Liberator 11/08; click here to buy a copy--the cover by Rebecca McDonald alone is worth it), I contributed to the ILX Top 75 Films of the 1950s (I Love Everything 11/18/08), preview: Heartless Bastards (City Pages 11/12/08), preview: Atmosphere (City Pages 10/29/08)

CD review: Dub Colossus: Dub Colossus in a Town Called Addis (City Pages 10/29/08), CD review: U2, Under a Blood Red Sky (see page 18) (Campus Circle 10/15/08), preview: Jolie Holland (City Pages 10/22/08), preview: Set the Smith (City Pages 10/15/08), preview: Stereolab (City Pages 10/8/08), preview: David Byrne (City Pages 10/8/08)

SST Records: The eMusic Dozen (eMusic 10/3/08), preview: The Wedding Present (City Pages 9/24/08), preview: Impaler's 25-year Anniversary Show (City Pages 9/17/08), Muja Messiah lists his favorites, profile of eighth-place-winner in Picked to Click (City Pages 9/10/08), Picked to Click ballot (Gimme Noise 9/9/08)

Anti-Flag Q&A: Police at Ripple Effect "dangerous" (MN Indy 9/5/08), Defiance of arbitrary authority sans painful consequences: Cops, Rage and Target Center (MN Indy 9/4/08), preview: GZA (City Pages 9/3/08), preview: Nas (City Pages 9/3/08), Ellison, and no Republicans, turn up for Katrina doc near RNC (MN Indy 9/3/08)

Take Back Labor Day: Hip hop meets folk by the RNC riverside (MN Indy 9/3/08), The cloud over Sammy Hagar and the RNC (MN Indy 9/1/08), Liberty Parade: Missile Dick Chicks meet Ron Paul voters (MN Indy 8/31/08), preview: Black Keys (City Pages 8/27/08), preview: The Unconvention: Liberty Parade (City Pages 8/27/08)

CD review: Coping With David Byrne & Brian Eno: A boost to your optimism from the Internet (Village Voice 8/27/08), Yo! the Movement 7th Annual Celebration (City Pages 8/20/08), CD review: Juliana Hatfield, How to Walk Away (City Pages 8/20/08), preview: Afrifest (City Pages 8/13/08), preview: N.O.R.E. (City Pages 8/13/08), CD review/profile: K-Salaam & Beatnick, Whose World Is This? (City Pages 8/6/08), "They Sound Like God": Peter S. Scholtes reviews Orchestra Baobab (Gimme Noise/Culture to Go 7/1/08), CD review: Trama & Muja Messiah (City Pages 6/4/08)

Purple Rain Dogs: Tom Waits for Prince Fans--Or How Atmosphere Went Electro (City Pages 4/30/08), Back to the Terrordome: Peter S. Scholtes reviews Chuck D and Slug (Gimme Noise/Culture to Go 4/29/08), Hi Yo Silver, Purple Rain: The Color of Minneapolis Rock and Roll, From Integrated Bands to Segregated Clubs (paper presentation at the EMP Pop Conference in Seattle 4/11/08--I'll email it to you upon request), No Faking: Peter S. Scholtes reviews the Mekons with Greil Marcus (Gimme Noise/Culture to Go 3/31/08) Artist of the Year: The Owls (City Pages 1/2/08)--where I proposed to Toasty, and she responded on the letters page the following week (City Pages 1/9/08). It's been a good year!

Previous roundup (scroll down), the one before that, and the one before that.

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Posted by Peter S. Scholtes at April 9, 2009 11:10 AM

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