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On Chris Barnes, death metal pioneer and noted "cookie-monster" vocalist.
Ron Howard's Beatles '64 documentary isn't revelatory, but it's enjoyable celebration of the greatest band of all time.
Skeptical curiosity about A Complete Unknown and revisiting Bob Dylan’s 1974 tour.
The Kinks were a great, somewhat unheralded band in the mid-1960s. After mass popularity hit, they hit the skids. What year is it (#527)
Pat Conte’s Atlas of Instruments: Fiddles Vol. 1 is a cosmopolitan triumph.
My father’s “system” was sacred.
The soul-crushing whistle of Leonard Cohen during the best performance of his life, "One of Us Cannot be Wrong" at Isle of Wight 1970.
It’s difficult to overstate the impact Barry McGuire's “Eve of Destruction” had when it was released in 1965.
I’m Not a Jimmy Webb fan, but David Samuels’ profile of the songwriter is a winner. What year is it (#504)?
The jazz legend’s late-career session is finally released.
An overdue reassessment of Centipede Hz and the work of the band that followed.
Charli XCX and the summer of Brat in a world on the brink of collapse.
The ring is set: hip-hop’s current showdown.
The best of the worst songs for the season.
Interlopers and songbirds, rookies and hurtin' Albertans: they all helped make this a great year.
The greatest hits afterparty with Graham Nash, Quaaludes, and Polly.
The music of my youth could’ve been worse.
The Franklin County Trucking Company makes great rock music for this extremely trucking time.
They’ve always been close to me.
Record labels don't like them anymore.
One of the greatest living songwriters, in the vein of John Prine
Recorded by the Moscow String Quartet in 1995.
The band perform at the Palais d'Auron in the middle of their tour for Antics on May 23, 2005.
The legendary indie band play what would become the second song on their acclaimed and widely influential 1991 album Spiderland.
The Wu-Tang Clan member talks to Rogan in this two hour conversation.
McCartney's most underrated ballad, the closing track from his 1980 solo album McCartney II.
One of the hypnotic tracks that plays throughout Jim Jarmusch's 2005 masterpiece, Broken Flowers.
Very early audio of Stern distraught the morning after the assassination of John Lennon by "scum of the earth" Mark David Chapman.
The epic closer to the band's 2000 classic And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out.
Underrated song by the Hoboken band, sung by Georgia Hubley.