Email Author Robert Wilonsky

1999 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

• Out There

  published February 11, 1999

  Plastic letters from home No Exit Blondie Beyond Music Universal Madness Madness Golden Voice Recording... More >>

• Bastard of middle age

  published February 11, 1999

  Bob Stinson died alone on February 18, 1995. He was discovered on the couch of his Minneapolis home, a syringe laying next to his slumped-over... More >>

• Out There

  published February 4, 1999

  Coming up short Hedwig and the Angry Inch Original Cast Recording Atlantic Records Hedwig Schmidt's ill-fated pecker is the... More >>

• The great divide

  published February 4, 1999

  It is too hard to listen to the interview with one of the greatest singers of the 1960s--too hard, because the Southern-boy twang in Levon Helm's... More >>

• Net gain

  published February 4, 1999

  The round little boy wears a green plastic cowboy hat adorned with the Dallas Mavericks logo. The hat is a thousand sizes too small for his large... More >>

• Out There

  published January 28, 1999

  Hall monitors Real: The Tom T. Hall Project Various artists Delmore/Sire Nobody writes songs like Tom T. Hall... More >>

• Odd Man Out

  published January 28, 1999

  Peter Fonda told him to call back at 4 p.m., January 16. "I'll be here," he promised Nile Southern, who has been waiting for years to hear those... More >>

• Out There

  published January 21, 1999

  You better, you Beck The Hi-Lo Country Various artists TVT Soundtrax It seems of late as though Willie Nelson's career--one... More >>

• Taking shots

  published January 21, 1999

  Dallas Stars backup goaltender Roman Turek is having the best season of his National Hockey League career. He won 11 games all of last... More >>

• Out There

  published January 14, 1999

  The obvious song Up Up Up Up Up Up Ani DiFranco Righteous Babe There's a tendency in the rock press to revere Ani DiFranco... More >>

• Requiem for a sax player

  published January 7, 1999

  This is not the complete story of Will Clay. There are too many gaps here for it to be the whole truth and nothing but. That is because so many of... More >>

• Out There

  published January 7, 1999

  Waltzing's for dreamers Sam Prekop Sam Prekop Thrill Jockey Knock Knock Smog Drag City What the hell... More >>

• Ashlee Simpson's Sitting Behind Me...

  published Nov 30, 1999

  I could have spent the entire weekend posting from the film side of the annual spring-break multimedia orgy South by Southwest, which wraps up Sunday; God knows there are dozens, if not hundreds, of p... More >>