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Summers of Discovery: Adventures in Greece with Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen

Summers of Discovery: Adventures in Greece with Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen

Judy Scott on the Intensity of Found Families

By Judy Scott | July 8, 2021

Jessica Hopper on Rock, Rapture, and What Artists Do that Mortals Cannot

Jessica Hopper on Rock, Rapture, and What Artists Do that Mortals Cannot

“These records give me a language to decipher just how fucked I am.”

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Eula Biss on the Wild Machismo of Prince in <em>Purple Rain</em>

Eula Biss on the Wild Machismo of Prince in Purple Rain

In Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on the Open Form Podcast

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How Kurt Cobain’s Favorite Novel Made Its Way Onto Nirvana’s Final Album

How Kurt Cobain’s Favorite Novel Made Its Way Onto Nirvana’s Final Album

Nathan Dunne on the Seductive Power of Perfume

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Sasha Frere-Jones on the Future of Live Music Post-Pandemic

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In Conversation with Paul Holdengräber on The Quarantine Tapes

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You should be listening to John Murry, the moody musician who just happens to be Faulkner's cousin.

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Ron Friedman on Reverse Engineering Creative Breakthroughs

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How the Stepe Brothers Radicalized Peoria and Inspired a Punk Rock Revolution

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