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“The Frisson of Pure Evil.” An Oral History of the Release of the Velvet Underground’s First Album

“The Frisson of Pure Evil.” An Oral History of the Release of the Velvet Underground’s First Album

“There were just so many layers and so many colors. Even if all the colors were dark.”

By Dylan Jones | December 5, 2023

RIP Shane MacGowan: 7 Pogues Songs That Would Make Great Short Stories

RIP Shane MacGowan: 7 Pogues Songs That Would Make Great Short Stories

Farewell to a True Legend

By Jonny Diamond | December 1, 2023

How Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker Made Music History Together

How Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker Made Music History Together

Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill on the Fraught Yet Successful Partnership of Two Industry Titans

By Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill | November 30, 2023

Who Doesn’t Like Music? Nabokov, For Starters

Who Doesn’t Like Music? Nabokov, For Starters

On the Odd Case of the Musical Anhedonic

By Michel Faber | November 29, 2023

<em>Maestro</em> Slips into Easy Conversation with <em>A Star is Born</em>

Maestro Slips into Easy Conversation with A Star is Born

Frank Falisi on the New Leonard Bernstein Biopic and Its Director-Star Bradley Cooper

By Frank Falisi | November 22, 2023

The Pyschedelic Life and Art of David Edward Byrd

The Pyschedelic Life and Art of David Edward Byrd

It All Began With a Trip to the Bathroom

By Robert von Goeben | November 20, 2023

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"The next thing that we knew 'Please Mr. Postman' was number one on the Billboard chart"

By Literary Hub | October 9, 2023

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Nick Ripatrazone Lets Go of an Old Story

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How the Folkloric Sounds of Rural America Reached the Mainstream

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John Szwed on Harry Everett Smith and the Making of The Anthology of American Folk Music

By John Szwed | August 23, 2023

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