Phil Ochs

Beatle Rock 

John and Yoko’s New York City Era

October 9, 2025October 10, 2025 Lee Zimmerman 2 Comments Abbie Hoffman, Delaney and Bonnie, Elephant’s Memory, Eric Clapton, Frank Zappa, George Harrison, Jerry Rubin, John Lennon, Keith Moon, One to One Concert, Phil Ochs, Plastic Ono Band, Power to the People, Sean Lennon, Sometime in New York City, Yoko Ono

A new box set chronicles the counterculture power couple’s adventures in the Big Apple

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Music Journalism 

Can Classical Music Help Fight the Noise Industrial Complex?

September 24, 2025September 26, 2025 Tim Sommer 0 Comments Aaron Copland, Claude Debussy, Dewars, Marlboro, Phil Ochs, Tim Sommer

I am lodging a protest, and its called ‘The Beauty of Music’

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Emotional Punk Rock aka Emo Folk Rock 

LISTEN: American Sigh Shares Folky New Single “Proof”

April 18, 2024April 18, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2020, American Sigh, Bear Proof, Black Lives Matter, California, COVID, Los Angeles, Phil Ochs, Silver Lake, Theo Matz, Virtue Signal, West Palm Beach

New album, Virtue Signal, out May 17th

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Records 

Record Store Day 2023: What To Buy

April 18, 2023April 18, 2023 Gillian G. Gaar 3 Comments 2023, Carole King, Debra Iyall, Dolly Parton, John Lennon, Muddy Waters, Phil Ochs, Record Store Day, Romeo Void, Sir Douglas Quintet, The Doors, The Happy Dragon Band, Violent Femmes

Digging for the deep gems from this year’s list so you don’t have to

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Alternative Rock Indie Rock Rock 

When Cloven Hoofprints Turn Up in the Garden: The Mountain Goats’ Tallahassee at 20

November 21, 2022November 21, 2022 Ted Miller 0 Comments 2002, 20th Anniversary, 4AD, All Hail West Texas, Jeff Magnum, John Darnielle, Phil Ochs, Tallahassee, The Beatles, The Mountain Goats

The band’s pivotal, heartbreaking major-indie debut was their first true concept album

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Folk Music Journalism 

It Takes a Village: Richard Barone on Writing Music + Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s

November 14, 2022November 14, 2022 Jim Allen 0 Comments Bob Dylan, Fred Neil, John Sebastian, Maria Muldaur, Melanie, Music + Evolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s, Phil Ochs, Richard Barone, The Bongos

A rocker captures the feel of the folk explosion in prose

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Rock 

Why Billy Childish Matters

April 2, 2021April 2, 2021 Tim Sommer 0 Comments BILLY CHILDISH, Bob Dylan, Charles Ives, Louis Jordan, Moondog, Phil Ochs, Scott Muni, The Circle Jerks, The Kinks, The Lurkers, The Ramones, Thee Headcoats, Vini Reilly, Wilko Johnson, Wire

Like, more than anyone else in Rock & Roll

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adblock Music Journalism 

The Ballad of Virus Van and COVID Clapton

December 10, 2020December 14, 2020 Tim Sommer 8 Comments COVID-19, Eric Clapton, Miley Cyrus, No More Lockdown, Phil Ochs, The Jam, Van Morrison

Van Morrison is a cranky old man, and that’s okay. Eric Clapton is a crappy old racist, and that’s not okay. 

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Music Journalism 

This Song is a Con, But It Can Still Change the World

November 16, 2020November 17, 2020 Tim Sommer 0 Comments 2020 Election, Donald J. Trump, Phil Ochs, protests, Woody Guthrie

Tim Sommer reckons with the power of the protest song in post-election 2020

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Blues Dylan Folk 

On Bob Dylan’s “Murder Most Foul”

March 30, 2020April 1, 2020 Tim Sommer 18 Comments 2020, Bob Dylan, Murder Most Foul, Phil Ochs, The Beatles, The Mekons

The Bard to his generation: “You Fucked Up”

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Music Journalism 

Dear Rock ‘n’ Roll: It Is Time To Act

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019 Tim Sommer 2 Comments Bob Dylan, Mississippi, Mississippi Burning, Nina Simone, Phil Ochs, Woodstock 1969

The vote needs to be rocked again, now more than ever

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