Why Is It So Hard to Write About Music in Fiction?

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Is It Still Punk When the Musician Makes It Big?

Is It Still Punk When the Musician Makes It Big?

Vivien Goldman on Patti Smith's "Free Money"

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Surviving False Dawns: On Joy Division and Life in a Far Distant Suburb

Surviving False Dawns: On Joy Division and Life in a Far Distant Suburb

Justine Hyde Escapes Into the World of Ian Curtis

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8 Books That Define and Defy the Canon of Hip Hop Literature

8 Books That Define and Defy the Canon of Hip Hop Literature

From Coast to Coast, Old School to New

By Will Ashon | April 12, 2019

Discovering Ralph Waldo Emerson in the Golden Age of Sneakers

Discovering Ralph Waldo Emerson in the Golden Age of Sneakers

From Run DMC to Spike Lee to "Self-Reliance"

By A. Sandosharaj | April 10, 2019

Anatomy of a Perfect Album: On Joni Mitchell's <em>Blue</em>

Anatomy of a Perfect Album: On Joni Mitchell's Blue

"Only a phase, these dark café days."

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On Ratchet Respectability and Beyoncé's Sexual Politics

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What Folk Music Misses About Actual Folks

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Brian Laidlaw on the Pastoral Fantasy in Music and Poetry

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