Articles Written By Llewellyn Hinkes
TMN Contributing Writer Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones is a Washington, DC-based writer whose work has also appeared in the Atlantic, Toronto Star, Washington City Paper, and the Awl.
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Now That’s Cult Music!
Religious cults tend to get a bad rap for the organized murders, weapon stockpiling, brainwashing, and mass suicide—but nobody focuses on the good they do. For example, nobody ever...
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Kristen Elsby
Sydney: Carmen Rupe
Name: Carmen Rupe Time of birth: 1936 Occupation title(s), both real and desired-in-another-lifetime? Entertainer and former Les Girls performer How would you describe your look? Unusual, different, fabulous What do...
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Hate Thy Neighbor
The word “scene” makes me retch something awful. As in “what about the scene, man?” It’s right up there with “society.” Besides being vague and meaningless, it carries with...
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Americana Obscura
Essentially, a “song cycle” is a glorified term for a concept album. It’s a jazz-rock odyssey on folkier instruments, but when done right, adds an overarching, operatic theme to...
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Looking for What Hasn’t Been Done Before
It was only a couple years ago I remember some friends lamenting how out of touch they were with the music of today. At the time I could scoff at...
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Addendum, Errata, and Lost Recordings
That dueling guitar sound I previously mentioned, where two people play rhythm guitars in the same key, is actually called weaving, something pioneered by a number of older blues players,...
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The Swinging Sounds of Modern Industry
Let’s not be hasty and rule out anything that sounds like the construction down the street. First off, it’s painting with a wide brush. You’ll block out...
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Dueling Instructions
I’m a sucker for dueling guitars—or any dueling instrument, for that matter. Whether it be Allman Brothers’ solos, Bach’s Goldberg Variations, or the soundtrack to an ‘80s...
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Summer Jams for Winter Storms
It was one month ago to the day that I was wondering, “Why can’t it be colder?” Seventy degrees in January seemed excessive. I asked myself, “Where’s that...
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Gallic Gutter Punks
I had always thought punk rock was mainly a British phenomenon, if for no other reason than its ruling party was composed of people who looked as if they might...
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Hard-Workin’ Music From Musicologists
OK, forget all of these new bands with their false haircuts and arbitrary affectations. There’s a reason people are nostalgic for the music of a bygone day and age...
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Spoofs & Satire
Being Christopher Hitchens
Living as a once-Trotskyist megaforce, now war-toting superstar can take its toll. Particularly when your personality subdivides into pro wrestlers.