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“To say that the occult ‘saved’ it is really to say that the spiritual agitation is at the heart of what was able to bring rock ‘n’ roll to its most interesting places.”
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Two highly recommended sets available on vinyl in limited editions on Record Store Day, November 24. CD issues will follow shortly afterward.
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A new complete translation of the most accomplished novel by Yury Tynyanov, an innovative Russian man of letters during the experimental 1920s.
Read MoreThroughout his writing, poet Seamus Heaney’s penetrating imagination is one that strives for accuracy.
Read MoreWho has taken criticism out of the hands of the “true critics”? Is someone making me read rancid Amazon reader reviews? Where do we look for the “true critics”?
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Jack Kerouac would have turned 100 on March 17. A 2014 conversation about the writer with his literary executor, the late John Sampas.
Read MoreThe great mistake we make as listeners or viewers is passivity. Music deserves and needs our active involvement.
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Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and this month’s list includes The Temptations, Janis Joplln, John Hartford, Carole King, and The Carpenters.
Read MoreAn Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
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Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — The Straddlers, Part One
Time to look at the maverick mavericks, composers with feet firmly planted on either side of the dividing line between jazz and classical.
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