the archive
All articles written by Oliver Wang (c) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
2000
Looking Back At '00-Oliver's Top Ten List for 2000 (12/00)
Bent Off Rent-Just Payin' the Rent highlights grim reality of Bay Area living and music-making. (12/00)
Women Warriors-A review of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (12/00)
We Love Lucy?-Charlie's Angels and the Problem With Lucy Liu (11/00)
Follow the Funk-New funk compilations for the fiend in you (11/00)
Asian Pride Porn-Asians. Having Sex. With One Another? (10/00)
Behind the Glass-Down at the National Japanese American History Museum (10/00)
The Eagle and the Dragon-Tom Clancy Goes To War With Asia...Again (10/00)
Fighting Words-Going One-on-One with Girlfight director Karyn Kusama (9/00)
Girlfight Scores a Knock-Out-With So Many Good Asian American Directors, Where Are All the Good Asian American Films? (9/00)
Write On-Minnesota's Atmosphere - The Art of Pretentious Rap (9/00)
Festival For the Senses-The San Francisco Asian American Jazz Festival (9/00)
Love Connection-Asian Men, White Women, the Movies - Oooh Wee! (8/00)
Brit-Hop-Why is British Hip-Hop So American? (8/00)
Southern Exposure-The First San Diego Asian Film Festival Launches (8/00)
Higher Science-Notating the Skratch (8/00)
Terms of Identity-Let the AZN Invazn Begin (7/00)
Wielding Words-I Was Born With 2 Tongues Blows Up Chicago, AmeriKKKa, the World? (7/00)
From the Left-Revisiting the West Coast New School (6/00)
Requiem for Glenn-Remembering Glenn Horiuchi (6/00)
Cooking Up Catfish-Chi Mui Lo's Catfish and Black Bean Sauce (6/00)
Resurrection-KMD (Finally) Return with Black Bastards (6/00)
Hip Hop Cover Art-Reading Records By Their Covers (5/00)
Gettin Digi With It-Anticon: Hip-Hop Straight Outta Cyberspace (5/00)
Roll With the New-L.A.'s New School Reborn (5/00)
A Doll's Life-Who Wants an Asian Barbie? (5/00)
The Fall of (Miss) Saigon-Miss Saigon Leaves Broadway - Good Riddance (5/00)
Jive
Token-Coco Lee - Asian America's Prodigal Pop Daughter? (4/00)
Kid's
Play-More challenging than uni, Kid Koala keeps it raw (4/00)
Personal
History-A review of Helen Zia's new Asian American Dreams
(3/00)
Between
the Lines-Reading up on the new rap pages (3/00)
Singles
Night-Brainfreeze: In Praise of the Funk 45 (1/00)
1999
'99
Rewind-The Year in Review (12/99)
Asiatic Static-Elephant Tracks Announces the Coming of Age of Hip-Hop Asian America (11/99)
The 'Art' Of Hip-Hop-You can't judge a record by its cover, but you can judge a record cover (10/99)
Size Matters-Hip-Hop Records Redefine the Long Play (9/99)
Hot Balls of Gas-Stars Don't Stand Still In the Sky (9/99)
Making An Old Bag New Again-Desco Records and Breakestra Put Funk Back On the Good Foot (9/99)
Making a Mystery-Soundtrack for a Movie That Never Was (8/99)
Life at 45 RPM-The 45 Keeps Spinning After All These Years (7/99)
Mass Appeal-Gang Starr Unload Full Clip (7/99)
Airwave Empire-King Tech and Sway Ask You To Choose This Or That (6/99)
Chairmen of the Board-Hip-Hop's Most Influential Sound Shapers (6/99)
Six Steps to Perfection-Lyrics Born Dissects the Making of a Hip-Hop Song (6/99)
Fables of the Fabulous-Slick Rick Returns With The Art of Storytelling (6/99)
Stop, Look, Listen-Stacks of Wax (6/99)
Artform-Oakland's Burnt Batch Puts Smoke In Your Eyes (5/99)
Sunshine Men-Revisiting the Freestyle Fellowship on To Whom It May Concern... (4/99)
Jam-E.A. Sports and DJ Q-Bert bounce out March Madness '99 (3/99)
Black
Star Shoot For Hip-Hop Higher Ground (3/99)
10 Shots to the Dome-Outtakes from Hip Hop's Remix History (3/99)
Double Trouble-A Great Day In Hip Hop (Prince Paul/The Roots) (2/99)
Big Bangs-The Worldly Beats of Japan's Kodo (2/99)
B-Boys to Men-Blackalicious Returns With Purpose (2/99)
Heavy Weight-Peanut Butter Wolf Drops My Vinyl Weighs a Ton (2/99)
Divine Stylistics-Divine Styler Offers Us Directrix (2/99)
Black Star Heats Up a Dry Concert-Black Star Shines On S.F.: No alcohol served, but it's still plenty dope (2/99)
Spin Doctors-San Francisco Bay Area DJs (2/99)
Alphabetic Acrobatics-Michael Jarrett's Sound Tracks offers a jukebox of musical knowledge (1/99)
1998
From East to East-Tried By 12 Gets Remixed By 9 (12/98)
Track Masters-Rap producers step up from behind the boards (12/98)
End of the Tape?-As Mixtape Sales Boom, Challenges to Independent DJs Loom (12/98)
Funk Phenomenon-Bay Area Turntablism Spins Into Its Second Decade (11/98)
Asian American Hip Hop-The Underground Finally Surfaces for Asian America (11/98)
Brown and Proud-Pinoys Take Turntablism (11/98)
And Justice For All-De La Soul and the Roots Come to the Justice League (11/98)
Funky Miracle-New Orleans' Funkiest Group, The Meters, Get Reissued (10/98)
Slam Man-Saul Williams Talks It Up in Slam (10/98)
Yellow-A review of Chris Chan Lee's Yellow (10/98)
Leader of the Old School-Nelson George Struggles in a New Jack World (10/98)
The Quest is Over-A Tribe Called Quest Break-Up With The Love Movement (9/98)
Viva Las Vegas-A review of Lance Mugia's Six Stringed Samurai (9/98)
Da Skills To Pay Da Bills-The Beastie Boys Rock Oakland (9/98)
Sliding Doors-Romance On the Rails in Next Stop Wonderland (9/98)
Midnight Sun-Black Star's Mos Def Talks about the Million Youth March, Hip-Hop (De)volution and Making Something From Nothing (9/98)
Icon or Cliche?-Bruce Lee, Jet Li and the Problems of Asian Male Masculinity in the Media (8/98)
The Wages of Whiteness-A review of George Lipsitz' new book, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness (8/98)
How Lauryn Got Her Groove Back-Lauryn Hill Is Every Woman (8/98)
Assimil-Asian-A review of Eric Liu's new book, The Accidental Asian (7/98)
Independents Daze-Life After Solesides (5/98)
Sound Bombing-Vijay Iyer and the Politics of Jazz (5/98)
New + Improved-Women in Hip Hop (5/98)
Feast From the East-Carting Around the Ranch 99 Market (5/98)
First Run-Actress-turned-Director Joan Chen Introduces Xiu Xiu (4/98)
Sight and Sound-Music and Movies at the San Francisco Int'l Film Festival (4/98)
Now Playing in the Midwest-A Preview of the 3rd Annual Chicago Asian American Showcase (3/98)
Sayles' Pitch-John Sayles' Latest Film, Men With Guns (3/98)
Bound by Tradition-David Henry Hwang's new Play, The Golden Child (2/98)
Getting Personal-A Preview of the 16th Annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (2/98)
Older articles (1997 and before) currently in process of being retrieved and reformatted.
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