Arsenio Orteza
Music Correspondent at WORLD Magazine
The world's pretty much only conservative rock critic.
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1 month ago |
spin.com | Arsenio Orteza
The past two years, like many of the 40 immediately preceding them, have been very good to Thurston Moore. In October 2023, he published Sonic Life: A Memoir (Faber & Faber), a 496-page memoir of the first six-and-a-half decades of his life and — thanks to his group Sonic Youth’s having rubbed elbows with every significant and semi-significant contemporaneous noisemaker — of punk and its experimental offshoots.
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Mar 25, 2024 |
spin.com | Arsenio Orteza
As the Dion of Dion and the Belmonts, he was the first mononymous rock star. He gave his airplane seat to Ritchie Valens and thus became the sole survivor of the ill-fated Winter Dance Party tour. He’s on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the same year as the Rolling Stones. Now, at 84, he has just released his latest star-studded blues album, Girl Friends for Joe Bonamassa’s Keeping the Blues Alive label.
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Oct 25, 2023 |
spin.com | Arsenio Orteza
“Do you sell alcohol in there?”Sixty-something and confined to an electric mobility scooter, the man asking the question at the will-call window of Ashland, Kentucky’s Paramount Arts Center has seen better days. But he gets the answer he wants. “Good,” he says, “because, after all, Jesus turned water into wine.”He’s referring to a well-known incident in the Gospel According to St. John.
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Apr 14, 2023 |
spin.com | Arsenio Orteza
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Apr 14, 2023 |
aol.com | Arsenio Orteza
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