Daphne Carr announces the galley proofs are ready and who made the A-list for Da Capo's Best Music Writing 2006:

(Warning: Teasers ahead)

• Greil Marcus, Stories of a Bad Song/Threepenny Review

• Alex Ross, Doctor Atomic “Countdown”/The New Yorker

• Mike McGuirk/Rhapsody
Rush Hemispheres
Charlie Rich Behind Closed Doors
Ted Nugent Cat Scratch Fever
Kylie Minogue I Believe in You
Accept Balls to the Wall
Frosty Liquor Drink
Iron Maiden Number of the Beast
Boredoms Super AE
Kraftwerk Man Machine
Dream Theater Octavarium


• Robert Wheaton, London Calling—For Congo, Coloumbo, Sri Lanka…/PopMatters

• Jon Caramanica, Ghetto Gospel/XXL Magazine

• Elizabeth Mendez Berry, Love Hurts/VIBE

• Charles Michener, Going Bonkers at the Opera: Glimmerglass Flirts with Chaos/New York Observer

• Ann Powers, Crazy Is as Crazy Does/eMusic

• Miss AMP, Kevin Blechdom/Plan B Magazine

• Kimberly Chun, Touched by a Woman: Dolly Parton Sings about Peace, Love, and Understanding/Creative Loafing

• Frank Kogan, Frank Kogan’s Country Music Critics’ Ballot 2005/I Love Music

• John Biguenet, The DeZurik Sisters/The Oxford American

• Katy St. Clair, A Very Special Concert/San Francisco Weekly

• Nick Weidenfeld, Dying in the Al Gore Suite/The Fader

• Tom Ewing, The Beatles “Eleanor Rigby/Yellow Submarine”/Popular

• Geoffrey O’Brien, “Will You Love Me Tomorrow”/The New York Review of Books

• Geoff Boucher, Ex-Door Lighting Their Ire/Los Angeles Times

• Dave Tompkins, Permission to ‘Land/Scratch Magazine

• Kevin Whitehead, Chops: Upstairs, Downstairs with Art Tatum (and Monk)/eMusic

• Robert Christgau, The First Lady of Song/The Nation

• Anne Midgette, The End of the Great Big American Voice/New York Times

• Bill Friskics-Warren, Bettye Lavette/No Depression

•Susan Alcorn, Texas: Three Days and Two Nights/Counterpunch

• John Sullivan, Upon This Rock/GQ

• Peter Relic, The Return/XXL Magazine

• Dr. David Thorpe, Thorpe’s Notes on R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet/Something Awful.com

• Raquel Cepeda, Riddims by the Reggaeton/Village Voice

• Wayne Marshall, we use so many snares/wayne&wax

• Andrew Hultkrans, Sweat and Lowdown/Artforum

• J. Edward Keyes, Where’s the Party? 13 Hours with the Next Franz Ferdinand/DIW Magazine

• David Marchese, High on Fire/PopMatters

• Monica Kendrick, Bang the Head Slowly/Chicago Reader

• Will Hermes (as Robert Barbara) Vegetarian militancy, sound magick, B&D, and the most astonishing live show of my life/Loose Strife

• Moustafa Bayoumi, Disco Inferno/The Nation


("Excited?" she asks. "You can pre-order BMW2006 from Powell's right now. We look good in purple.")

[yes indeedy to all of the above! and a most happy synchronicity, as i was about to point you all to another PopMatters special in the midst of unfurling -- with the opener co-authored by Marchese ... "Riffing on Elvis" And uh ... I've provided links to a few so you can savor some of the favorite flavors and generally whet your appetite for more in print by the pound format).  ¶ 8/16/2006 03:36:00 PM