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- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
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Category Archives: Music
Nonexistent Knights: Italo Calvino, Richey Edwards and the Identity of the Writer
Mysterious disappearances. The Manic’s Richey Edwards dropped off the face of the earth. Calvino shape shifted. What does it offer an author. Philip Marsh on the I and voice of writing. Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Music
Tagged Autobiography, Italo Calvino, Manic Street Preachers, Sherlock Holmes, writing
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Before and After the Replacements
The Replacements hit Seattle for the first night of their reunion tour. Seattle hits back. Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged all shook down, bob stinson, devo, Iron Man, let it be, mats, paul westerberg, Seattle, sorry ma i forgot to take out the trash, T. Rex, the paramount, the reolacments, tim, tom petty, tommy stinson
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Hasten Down the Wind: Adventures in Babysitting, 1977
What to do when you’re 12 and a mysterious, beautiful, troubled woman moves in next door with her four-year-old? You babysit, of course! RBW offers some more summertime musical memoir. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciations, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Popped Culture, Popular Culture, Saturday Music, Sex, Soul Seduction, The Arts
Tagged 1977, adventures in babysitting, babysitting, bildungsroman, butyl nitrate, coming-of-age, Disco, joys of fantasy: a book for couples, linda ronstadt, your erroneous zones
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Love & Mercy and the Saving of Brian Wilson
Beach Boy Brian Wilson, musical genius and cultural icon, should have died, but did not. Someone saved him. Who, exactly, did the saving is up for debate. In any case, hot new biopic Love & Mercy, fleshes out the less-familiar trope of “saving the artist,” and our own Robert Burke Warren digs that. Continue reading
Carrie & Lowell & Sufjan & Me
When great live performances approach religious experiences. Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Carrie & Lowell, Casimir Pulaski Day, death, God, Mental illness, mothers, religion, Sufjan Stevens
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Song Beneath the Song: Bob Dylan’s “Tangled Up In Blue”
Bod Dylan’s “Tangled Up In Blue,” from his 1975 classic Blood On the Tracks, is unfinished. Always has been, always will be. Its incompleteness, however, is part of its power. It is no accident. Dylan engineered “Tangled Up In Blue” to be open-ended, unsealed, and shape-shifting, not unlike a jazz composition. He tinkers with it, sometimes radically reinventing it, both lyrically and melodically, to this day, making it one of the most resilient, resonant unfinished songs ever. Our own Robert Burke Warren gets deep into this distinctive, odd nugget from the Dylan canon. Continue reading
Dead Finks and Warm Jets: Evolved Enough for Eno
Even if you don’t know Brian Eno’s music, you’ve still heard him, in groundbreaking clients Talking Heads, Bowie, U2, and Coldplay, not to mention the 3.5 second chime that heralds the opening of every Microsoft Windows 95 program. (Written by Eno on a Mac.) How did Eno grab the attention of the iconic before they were icons? Guest Weekling Mark Donato answers that question by taking you back to Eno’s fabulous, way-ahead-of-its-time solo work, songs that now sound like blueprints for so much quality late 20th/early 21st century pop. Because they are. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Popped Culture, Popular Culture, The Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged baby's on fire, brian eno, coldplay, here come the warm jets, mark donato, talking heads, u2
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