Kanye West, Paul McCartney, and the Whitewashing of Rock ’n Roll History
— January 5, 2015In November 1981, when the Rolling Stones were touring in support of their enormously successful Tattoo
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Garland Jeffreys’ “The Rest of My Life Tour” Returns to Chicago
— November 18, 2014Pausing between songs at his intimate, mostly acoustic November 6 show at SPACE in Evanston, Illinois,
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Singing Puppets Explain the Robin Thicke Lawsuit Perfectly
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You Can Keep Your Cutesy Covers of Black Music, White YouTubers. Thanks.
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Pete Seeger: A Worried Man Passes Away
— January 28, 2014When I was a kid, my dad used to play the guitar. He had a reasonably decent six-string acoustic
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Concert Review: Garland Jeffreys in Chicago
— November 18, 2013When the legendary street poet and songwriter Lou Reed passed away a few weeks back, it struck me that
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TLC Is Still Getting Screwed?
— October 30, 2013The TLC biopic, Crazy Sexy Cool, premiered on VH1 last week, and reminded me how much I love the group
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Happy 87th Birthday, Chuck Berry
— October 18, 2013Charles Edward Anderson (“Chuck”) Berry was born on October 18, 1926, in St. Louis, Missouri. Without
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Hip-Hop at 40: First Impressions
— August 15, 2013According to pop music Apocrypha, hip-hop was born in the Bronx forty years ago. NPR’s Dart Adams explains:
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Holy Crap That’s Racist: “Asian Girlz”
— July 31, 2013I’ll admit it. I’m fairly cynical. Rarely am I shocked by some dumbass comment/action/anything
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