RAW NERVE: “Is Sinead Nuts?” Lots of...

RAW NERVE: “Is Sinead Nuts?” Lots of people have asked that question in recent months, but few have really taken the matter as far as the editors of Nerve, a new “renegade rock ‘n’ roll” magazine started recently by longtime punk chronicler Legs McNeil.

In the premiere issue--which also includes a profile of Charles Manson’s son, a meeting between U2’s Bono and “Naked Lunch” author William Burroughs and “The History of Grunge” by rock historian Lenny Kaye--a cover story by writer Stacey Asip notes that Sinead O’Connor’s interviews can read like “transcripts from Sybil’s therapy sessions.”

Asip takes that as a cue to have an “Ivy League-educated psychiatrist” do a serious analysis of the Irish singer’s makeup. The conclusion: She’s “narcissistic, borderline, histrionic and anti-social.”

O’Connor’s spokeswoman Elaine Schock had no comment other than to note that O’Connor had not seen the article, and that the story’s statement that the singer has quit music is not true.