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What chances would Eric Satie have if he were around today as an unknown?
On Chris Barnes, death metal pioneer and noted "cookie-monster" vocalist.
Ron Howard's Beatles '64 documentary isn't revelatory, but it's enjoyable celebration of the greatest band of all time.
Skeptical curiosity about A Complete Unknown and revisiting Bob Dylan’s 1974 tour.
The Kinks were a great, somewhat unheralded band in the mid-1960s. After mass popularity hit, they hit the skids. What year is it (#527)
Pat Conte’s Atlas of Instruments: Fiddles Vol. 1 is a cosmopolitan triumph.
My father’s “system” was sacred.
The soul-crushing whistle of Leonard Cohen during the best performance of his life, "One of Us Cannot be Wrong" at Isle of Wight 1970.
It’s difficult to overstate the impact Barry McGuire's “Eve of Destruction” had when it was released in 1965.
I’m Not a Jimmy Webb fan, but David Samuels’ profile of the songwriter is a winner. What year is it (#504)?
The jazz legend’s late-career session is finally released.
An overdue reassessment of Centipede Hz and the work of the band that followed.
The ring is set: hip-hop’s current showdown.
The best of the worst songs for the season.
Interlopers and songbirds, rookies and hurtin' Albertans: they all helped make this a great year.
The greatest hits afterparty with Graham Nash, Quaaludes, and Polly.
The music of my youth could’ve been worse.
The Franklin County Trucking Company makes great rock music for this extremely trucking time.
They’ve always been close to me.
Record labels don't like them anymore.
One of the greatest living songwriters, in the vein of John Prine
86 minutes of some of the greatest music for piano ever written.
Never before officially released, a key piece of the score of the 1991 finale of Twin Peaks.
The late pianist interprets Bach in this 50-minute performance.
The Strokes frontman talks to Friedland in this previously unreleased interview.
The melancholy mock-player piano theme for Marlene Dietrich's character in Touch of Evil.
45 minutes of MTV News segments and commercials that ran on the network in 29 years ago this month.
The third and final track from O'Rourke's 2001 album I'm Happy, and I'm Singing, and a 1, 2, 3, 4.
Recorded by the Moscow String Quartet in 1995.
The band perform at the Palais d'Auron in the middle of their tour for Antics on May 23, 2005.