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The Self-Hating Hipster’s Top 50 Albums of 2013

Two years ago (and change) I compiled a list of the Top 11 Albums of 2011. Last year I put together the Top 12 Albums of 2012. Both articles were compiled of selections culled from lists of approximately 40 albums respectively. After not publishing an article in six months I decided that those once dedicated SHH readers deserved something much more comprehensive for 2013. Instead of publishing a predictably titled Self-Hating Hipster’s Top 13 Albums of 2013 three weeks into January of 2014 I would, as I am wont to do, aim way too high and likely disappoint myself–a Top 50!

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The First Quarter of 2013 in Music

14 Jun

Almost exactly three months ago I posted this article with a list of twenty albums in alphabetical order which I had purchased in the first quarter of 2013. The intent was to have the article out by mid-April. In classic SHH fashion I decided that it would be better to do a review of twenty albums Continue reading →

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RIP Barney Rosset

25 Feb

Owner/publisher of Grove Press from 1951-1985 and founder of the Evergreen Review, Barney Rosset, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 89.

Rosset was a counter cultural icon and 1st Amendment revolutionary that was pegged as a peddler of smut in the 50’s and 60’s. Rosset and Grove Press defended the publication of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch among other works, citing their literary/artistic merit. Decades later, those three novels Continue reading →

Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Barney Rosset, beat generation, counter culture, D.H. Lawrence, Eugene Ionesco, Evergreen Review, Gary Snyder, Grove Press, Harold Pinter, Henry Miller, hipster, Howl, jack kerouac, Jean Genet, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Naked Lunch, October on the Railroad Earth, Philip Whalen, Samuel Beckett, San Francisco Scene, Six Gallery, Tom Stoppard, Tropic of Cancer, Waiting for Godot, William S. Burroughs

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“Go” by John Clellon Holmes

23 Oct

This morning I attended the 37th Annual Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair at the Armory in Albany. I have been going to this fair for the past six years with my father. To my dismay, there seemed to be fewer vendors than last year, and last year there were far fewer vendors than in years past. I sincerely hope that they are able to keep it going.

I am a collector of modern fiction and poetry. Unfortunately for me, Albany is a city steeped in history and so most of the vendors you find there cater to the local history buffs and ephemera geeks (as if I’m cooler). Continue reading →

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