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Was 1971 greatest year in the history of rock? Read this delightful book and be prepared to argue.
Read MoreNone of these pedigrees guaranteed that The Old Ceremony’s music would live up to the promise. After all, cool by association does not equal great on one’s own.
Read MoreLiberty’s First Crisis presents reminders that elected officials have always been capable of uncivilized behavior toward their colleagues.
Read MoreNeuroplasticity is a bit more fleshed-out than its predecessor, but the album retains ample amounts of the slow to mid-tempo spookiness that Al Spx calls “doom soul.”
Read MoreThe under-appreciated singer-songwriter Tommy Keene is equal parts an aficionado and creator of pop music.
Read More“Honest weight” has more to with like karats of gold, maybe. The “weight” being the value of something. It kind of alludes to that a little bit.
Read More1965 was the year in which the leading artists in American and British popular music pushed themselves beyond making albums that mixed covers with subpar originals.
Read More“The idea that slavery was not economically important to New England as a whole is just emphatically not true.”
Read MoreAmerican Radicals is as revealing, riveting, and well-researched as any work of history that I have read in recent years.
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Rock Feature: Roger Daltrey of The Who — How Can He Afford to Tour?
If there is any theme that runs throughout the story of Roger Daltrey’s life as he tells it, it’s that he has always needed more money to – as he so folksily puts it – “pay the bills.”
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