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Life, Camera, Action
Last year, for Christmas, my wife bought me a Braille watch. It’s a wonderful invention. read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesMaria McKee: Seasons will change
Interpreting a Maria McKee album as a harbinger of the musical direction she’ll take next is futile. read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesListening to My Life
The guy sure knows how to pick ’em. Classical pianist and rock fan Christopher O’Riley has released yet another album sure to tweak the purists and delight the hipsters. This one is called Second Grace: The Music of Nick Drake... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesBilly Bragg
The Progressive Patriot: A Search for Belonging
Billy Bragg's notion of "Englishness" has taken quite a beating lately... read more
Steven Hall
The Raw Shark Texts
Before you even crack open British author Steven Hall's wildly inventive and occasionally uneven first novel, you've got to... read more
Rock Quotes
"For some reason people think that musicians have some authority..." read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesSolid Rock
Five years ago, a trio of friends rented out a one-room office in downtown Decatur, Ga., with the admittedly naive goal of starting a national music magazine that would ignore both indie snobbery and pop-culture sycophantism, instead focusing on music that we loved. It was an incredibly selfish endeavor: “Let’s make the music magazine we would most want to read.” No market research or targeted demographics. We filled issue #1 with all our personal favorites—Wilco, Victoria Williams, Tom Waits, Vigilantes of Love, Speech, Sam Phillips and Brian Wilson. To keep ourselves entertained, we included film, books and travel. Because we... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesRyan Adams: Easy Tiger
Prolific songwriter's heart still breaking (good news for us, anyway) read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsFarm Aid
It began in summer of 1985 at Live Aid, the U.S./U.K. Ethiopian famine relief concert, with a passing comment from Bob Dylan. . . read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesAdrienne Young
Fittingly, Plow to the End of the Row—the debut from Adrienne Young & Little Sadie—came with a pack of wildflower seeds. . . . read more
Found in: Music, Features
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