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Hip-Hop Heads: Jeff Alessandrelli Interviews Daniel Levin Becker

Hip-Hop Heads: Jeff Alessandrelli Interviews Daniel Levin Becker

I value fun and the sense that a rapper is enjoying their own skill rather than just telling me about it...

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Francesco Tenaglia Interviews Greil Marcus

Francesco Tenaglia Interviews Greil Marcus

It was all about A Day In The Life which was being played on San Francisco radio stations long before the Sgt. Pepper album...

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Ruta Destroy

Ruta Destroy

It is hard to believe that this was once one of Spain’s wildest nightclub scenes...

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What’s the 411 on What’s the 411?

What’s the 411 on What’s the 411?

As Mary’s stories play over infective beats, I map Mary to everyone on the street...

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Choreography in Opera

Choreography in Opera

We see emotional resonance in shapes, space, movement and rhythm...

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Samuel Jay Keyser on Leonard Bernstein

Samuel Jay Keyser on Leonard Bernstein

Poetry ceased to be metrical, music ceased to be tonal and painting ceased to be mimetic...

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Old New Music

Old New Music

New music includes sounds we’ve never heard before, regardless of how old the tunes might be...

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“Everybody wanted to know what I’d do if I didn’t win”

“Everybody wanted to know what I’d do if I didn’t win”

The footage is remarkable for showing Kanye in a private space that is a world away from the equally intimate – but also highly public – outbursts for which he is now better known...

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Then Amy Died

Then Amy Died

Yes, I drank at the Hawley Arms and the Good Mixer in Camden, went to Trash, saw the Strokes at a tiny secret gig...

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Sheepish Drumming

Sheepish Drumming

Elton John was singing “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues,” and I was belting it out with him...

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Oscar Mardell: Brutal Cure

Oscar Mardell: Brutal Cure

New Zealand has an innovative legacy of concrete construction dating back to the 1850s...

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