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Greil Marcus on "Stranded," Neil Young, and His Favorite Music City
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 months ago
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On Oakland's northernmost stretch of Telegraph Avenue there's a record store called Stranded . On the Berkeley side of that stretch, in 1978, Greil Marcus San Francisco-born music critic, Cal grad, and Rolling Stone 's first reviews editor wrote the
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Ready, steady, Brits!
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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Tim will be coming over all Lester Bangs aka soliciting your thoughts and liveblogging the whole thing, with expert punditry coming from Alexis Petridis and a sense of how grisly it all looks in real life from Lexy, Kieran Yates and me . In the
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The Punks on G Street: Tracking Cuba's Rebellious Youth 50 Years After the Revolution [True Stories]
Havana :: Cuba | 9 months ago
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Tracking Cuba's Rebellious Youth 50 Years After the Revolution I met Livan, Takeshi and the rest of their band of frikis rock and metal fans of the punk-and-anarchist subcategoryaround nine one Thursday night on the median of Havana's G Street.
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Bangs are back as a popular hairstyle
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 year ago
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Jessica Biel had fringe so thick and long, she looked like one of the Beatles. And Marion Cotillard had a tuft on her forehead seemingly styled by a weed whacker. As if those bangs weren't sufficiently extreme, days later at the Chanel cruise show in
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Patti Smith: The responsible artist
Hartford :: CT :: USA | 1 year ago
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AP Music People called me the godmother of punk, says Smith, but I never name myself anything. She is speaking by phone about Banga , her latest album and possibly her last (every album is possibly the last for any artist, but this, with its hippie-
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Jonathan Lethem on Talking Heads' ‘Fear of Music'
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 year ago
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This is the story of one particular album, recorded by one particular band in 1979, that wrapped itself around one particular fan and never let go. Early in the book, in something Lethem calls a prelude, we're introduced to that fan, or in this case,
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Bangs Are Back as a Popular Hairstyle
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 year ago
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For centuries, tastemakers of all kinds Cleopatra, Louise Brooks, members of the band Poison have used bangs to make unspoken style statements. A recent article on Vogue magazine's Web site entitled The Rooney Mara Effect described how the actress's
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SXSW Watch: My Twitter-Crit Panel, or, A Lot of Words About 140 Characters
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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On my Sunday-morning panel, Arts Criticism in 140 Characters or Less, my fellow panelists and I used far more than 140 characters at a shot to explain how social media, especially Twitter, have changed the way we write about the TV shows and movies
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An Open Letter To My Hair
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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I guess I should start with an apology, or two. I'm sorry I burn you, cut you and tie you up. I'm sorry I color you, curl you, straighten you and harass you in countless other ways...For the small random wisps near my bangs, my bangs that won't grow
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Maggoty Lamb looks for green shoots of negativity as a spur to the creative process
London :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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Maybe the best work happens when critics are given something to kick against Das Racist challenged Sasha Frere Jones's assertion that hip-hop is dead by writing a sequence of sonnets. Photograph: Roger Kisby/Getty Images What is the proper
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