Call and Response: On the Inextricable History of Music and Black Struggle

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“The lineage of protest music has continued into the age of Black Lives Matter.”

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Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx on Discovering Hard Rock in the Middle of Idaho

Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx on Discovering Hard Rock in the Middle of Idaho

“Until Kiss and Alice Cooper came along, music had been getting softer and softer.”

By Nikki Sixx | October 19, 2021

The Time Jim Morrison Was Arrested Onstage in the Middle of a Show

The Time Jim Morrison Was Arrested Onstage in the Middle of a Show

Former Doors Bandmember Robby Krieger Remembers the Myth-Making Moment

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How Opera Invented the Modern Fan

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Alison Kinney Investigates the Barriers to Appreciating Art the “Right” Way

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Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda on the Alchemy of Making Music and Art

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Joshua Bennett on Fatherhood: “We Do Not Live Forever. But We Do Live On.”

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