Robert Ford and Trent Adkins shaped the bold, subversive, gossipy, funny, deeply engaged voice of
Thing, felled by the AIDS pandemic in 1993.
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Thing published ten issues between November 1989 and summer 1993. Zine cofounder Trent Adkins appears on the cover of the third issue, pictured here at lower left. Amber Huff In February 2021, dance-music site Selector republished a list of 100 important house records taken from a 1992 issue of a short-lived Chicago zine called
Crossfade. Chicago s House: A Checklist originally ran in November of that year as part of a story package about house history, sandwiched between a brief but trenchant essay by copublisher and editor Terry Martin on the birth and evolution of Chicago s underground dance culture and a six-page interview Martin had conducted with the godfather of house, Frankie
De La Soul’s classic music has not been available on streaming services due to the legal issues the group has had with Tommy Boy Records involving contracts and samples. This will change due to Reservoir’s $100 Million acquisition of the Tommy Boy catalog. A spokesperson for Reservoir said, “We have already reached out to De. Read more »
While the name Freshco and Shawn Conrad might not be known by many anime fans out there, said fans might recognize the musician for his contribution to the anime franchise of One Piece, most specifically being the talent responsible for the theme song that arrived via 4Kids. With Shawn s theme [.]