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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Listening
Out With the Old, in With the New
Maybe Bill Drummond is right. Maybe we are inundated with a glut of music nowadays via mp3s and too much of it is nostalgic. Rather than obstinately avoiding all...
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Listening
Getting Over Music Hang-Ups
I feel like at every point in my life I’ve had some arbitrary musical exclusion only to have it whittled down over time. It’s true: There’s always...
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Listening
Picking Genres From a Dictionary
Music genres come and go by the dozen, from emocore and screamo to nemocore, but what new genres lurk on the horizon? Will there be more amalgamations of current styles...
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Listening
CBGBs RIP
The history of rock may be written by the losers, but this week the losers will have some attention in their hands to point out the decline of Western civilization...
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Listening
Mp3 Digest: October 4, 2006
Having just seen the K Records Documentary, I can now say with authority that music critics do have a place in this world outside of keeping Yo La Tengo in...
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Music
Ectopia
Steroid Maximus's Ectopia is classical-industrial music that uses John Cage's flaming-piano-out-the-window experiment as a starting point and turns it into the score for a movie yet to be made. Babies...
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Books
Pure Drivel
Podcast, schmodcast. I'm not sure what the hubbub is about--it's just a bunch of audio files. While you're waiting for the next installment of Johnny Dollar, Insurance Investigator, I'm already...
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Music
Cambodian Rock
Just like Ethiopian soul in the '70s, Cambodian psychedelic garage rock from the '60s, called "circle dance music," was eventually crushed by the incoming political regime. The Khmer...
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Movies
Grizzly Man
The amount of epic symbolism and ironic tragedy overflowing Grizzly Man, a documentary about a man who wants to live amongst grizzlies, makes it almost too perfect to be believed....
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Web
The Perry Bible Fellowship
The New Yorker's caption contest is challenging, but The Perry Bible Fellowship proves that some of the finer cartoons need no captions. Right here is where I'd say something about...
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Opinions
The Intramural Sports of Kings
The signup sheet in the break room wants you and your co-workers to meet at the park on Saturday for a game of softball. For some it may just be fun, but for others it’ll be pure competition.
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How To
The Mnemonics of Mnailguns
‘Tis the season for home renovation, but unless you have a degree (or years experience) in carpentry, a cheat-sheet is required for survival. Home-repair expert LLEWELLYN HINKES-JONES writes in with aids for the amateurs.