Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Three Reviews by Tim Aher

From Blastitude magazine in 2002.

Editor Larry Dolman writes, "I think they really demonstrate a lot of the things about Tim's character that the eulogies are referring to - they're very raw and funny, intellectual but informal, sharp and fairly caustic but not so much pissed-off as they are bemused, still full of wonder..."

The first two pair R&B pop diva Ashanti, "the first female performer to simultaneously hold the top two places on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart," with the decidedly more white, low-budget and out-of-control Hair Police:

http://www.blastitude.com/13/pg9.htm

The first question on Tim's mind was what the Italian gangster John Gotti meant to the black hip-hop artists who named themselves after him. Intriguingly, the same question preoccupied that "singular historian and philosopher of American experience" Luc Sante when he wrote about the bandit king that year.

The last review was of a hyped underground show where Tim still found something weird to love:
http://www.blastitude.com/13/pg3.htm

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