The Roots of Sunn O)))
Is their Sub Pop debut music for Benadryl Eaters or the future of music?
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Author: Tim Sommer
The Very Possibly True Origin Story of Geese
(By Dylan Trungpa-Maxberg, as told to Tim Sommer)
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Revisiting My Words on Springsteen
Our identities are Our War, too; and our identities are shaped by music
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Talking Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Streets of Minneapolis’
Organize, register and protect, or just shut up and sing ‘Hungry Heart’
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Dry Cleaning’s Secret Love: Enchanting, Chiming, Exotic and Loud at Any Volume
Inside the band’s fantastic third album, out now on 4AD
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Bob Dylan’s 18th Bootleg Dream
Through The Open Window isn’t a footnote, but an essential part of the Bard’s story
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Joe Ely: Feb. 9, 1947 – Dec. 15, 2025
Paying tribute to the spirit of a rock ‘n’ roll outlaw
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Get Pissed: The Sex Pistols Turn 50
Exactly half a century ago, England’s punk godfathers split the Earth and raised the flag
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Karen Schoemer Remembers ‘August’
How she and her friends created a sweet, strange war between sound and word
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Milk Chocolate Motorik and More
The aural luxury of new releases by Immersion, Anna Lapwood and Maria Lettberg
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Can Classical Music Help Fight the Noise Industrial Complex?
I am lodging a protest, and its called ‘The Beauty of Music’
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The Very Thought of Bob and Babs
Barbra Streisand and Bob Dylan go very deep on an extraordinary and beautiful duet, which our critic reads a lot into
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Born Ruffians: ‘Canada, Nabokov and the Arc of Life’
Luke Lalonde discusses the grace and strangeness of Beauty’s Pride
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Hawkwind Returns with There Is No Space For Us
Celebrating the prog legends’ 37th studio album
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Essential, Magical New Albums from Immersion and Daniela Mars
Two LPs that explore the fearlessness of beauty
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