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Blake Maddux

Book Review: “The Ideas That Made America” — Not Made in America

Book Review: “The Ideas That Made America” — Not Made in America

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America provides an exciting, if quicksilver, tour through intellectual history.

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History

Rock Preview: A Salute to the New Wave That Followed on the Heels of the First Wave

Rock Preview:  A Salute to the New Wave That Followed on the Heels of the First Wave

Dino Cattaneo saw an opportunity to mark another ruby anniversary with the help of “killer” – his word of choice – local artists.

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music, Preview Tagged: Dee Zaster, Dee Zaster & The Designated Drivers, Dino Cattaneo, Elvis Costello, John Powhida

Rock Album Review: Juliana Hatfield’s “Weird” — In Customary Fine Form

Rock Album Review: Juliana Hatfield’s “Weird” — In Customary Fine Form

Overall, Juliana Hatfield’s Weird is closer to good than to great.

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Juliana Hatfield, Weird

Book Interview: Tina Cassidy on the Woman Who Made Women’s Sufferage Happen

Book Interview: Tina Cassidy on the Woman Who Made Women’s Sufferage Happen

Tina Cassidy talks about her revealing and enjoyable new book about how a woman’s right to vote became enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Alice Paul, Blake Maddux, How Long Must We Wait?, Tina Cassidy, women's vote, Woodrow Wilson

Music Interview: Martin Phillipps of The Chills

Music Interview: Martin Phillipps of The Chills

It would appear that Martin Phillipps and company are experiencing a late-career renaissance that bodes well for their future.

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music, Preview, Rock Tagged: Martin Phillips, The Chills

Music Interview: Talking With Colin Blunstone — Post-Zombies

Music Interview: Talking With Colin Blunstone — Post-Zombies

“It’s a very exciting prospect that your peers think your worthy to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Preview, Rock Tagged: Colin Blunstone, The Zombies

Rock, Pop, and Folk Feature: Favorite Albums of 2018 — The Delightful Dozen

Rock, Pop, and Folk Feature: Favorite Albums of 2018 — The Delightful Dozen

Here are 12 albums that come out in 2018 that I liked.

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured, Music, Preview, Rock

Book Interview: The Story of Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices

Book Interview: The Story of Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices

The author’s combination of knowledge and experience has resulted in a boisterous chronicle of one of indie rock’s least probable but most luminous and unremitting stars.

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Closer You Are: The Story of Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices, Da Capo, Matthew Cutter, Robert Pollard

Book Interview: Robert W. Fieseler on the legacy of the “Tinderbox”

Book Interview: Robert W. Fieseler on the legacy of the “Tinderbox”

One of the few books that examine the largest mass killing of gays and lesbians in the United States until the 2016 massacre at Pulse.

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Gay mass murder, Gay studies, Liveright, Norton, Robert W. Fieseler, Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation

Music Interview: Thomas Dolby — Music, Entrepreneurship, and Academia

Music Interview: Thomas Dolby — Music, Entrepreneurship, and Academia

“Rather than encourage the machines to behave like machines, I chose to find ways to sort of use them to create a very cinematic and atmospheric soundscapes.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured Tagged: Hyperactive, Thomas Dolby

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