Of course the big music news this week was the passing of Chuck Berry at age 90. In case you weren’t already convinced of his giant influence on rock (and much more), consider how people across generations reacted to the […]
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It’s been a long time since I considered an album a folk masterpiece, but I must give that distinction to John McCutcheon’s new Trolling for Dreams. The album — the 38th in McCutcheon’s prolific career — overflows with great songs, […]
About a week after last November’s presidential election, I started getting emails from writers who were working on stories for this issue, asking for extensions. Though a couple of them had to do with the typical things — tracking down […]
We live in a political world The one we can see and feel But there’s no one to check It’s all a stacked deck. — Bob Dylan, “Political World” The protest song is nearly as old as songs themselves. […]
Happy new year, folks! It’s going to be a good one ’round here — lots of great stuff in the pipeline for our website and our print journals that we can’t wait to show you. But there’s always room for […]
Of the making of many “best-of” lists there is no end. Many magazines and newspapers have already weighed in on the best albums or the best books of the year. At best, such lists remind us of some books we […]
Like most left-leaning Americans, I woke up on the ninth of November in a depressed fog, a situation which wasn’t helped by having to drive 15 miles in the rain to report to jury duty in a landlocked Seattle suburb. […]
Bruce Springsteen has said that he penned all of his moving new autobiography himself—no cowriter or ghostwriter—and anyone who has heard his between-song concert monologues or his 2012 SXSW speech will believe him. This is the same storytelling, exclamation-point-using, self-deprecating, […]
Graham Nash says people need to speak out more today than ever before. With Election Day approaching, he’s not holding back. “I think Donald Trump is an incredibly dangerous man,” he tells me from his new home in New York City. […]
Jude Johnstone says it’s difficult to identify the best concert she has attended but gives the nod to Bonnie Raitt. Johnstone, who has opened several shows for Raitt, points to Raitt’s performance on May 24, 2015, at the Avila Beach […]
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