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My Audition for the Ramones

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Robert Burke Warren

Music editor Robert Burke Warren takes us back to his 1989 audition for The Ramones. Continue reading →

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The Job of a Lifetime

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Robert Burke Warren

Former Christmas tree salesman/child wrangler/fire escape painter Robert Burke Warren realizes the day jobs are a significant part of the story. Continue reading →

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WannaBowies: The Top Twenty Bastards of Bowie

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Robert Burke Warren

David Bowie, like the Beatles and Bob Dylan, long ago achieved the status of adjective. For Monday Rock City, Robert Burke Warren lists the Top Twenty Bowie Bastards, i.e. the most Bowie-esque soundalikes, stretching from the 70s to the ‘aughts. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, David must be feeling pretty special right about now. Continue reading →

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Song Beneath the Song: Bob Dylan’s “Tangled Up In Blue”

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Robert Burke Warren

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 →

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Bigger Than Jesus: The Gospel of U2, Leonard Cohen, and Sufjan Stevens

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Robert Burke Warren

Robert Burke Warren goes deep into his own story to talk about the persistence of God in pop, and how and why non-believers and doubting Thomases still go for it. Continue reading →

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In Defense of Disco

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Robert Burke Warren

At its height, the “Disco Sucks” movement drew fifty-nine thousand people to a Chicago stadium to watch a shock jock explode LPs, inciting a full-on riot of mostly white dudes. WTF? Our Robert Burke Warren, who became enamored of disco in the lusty confines of a Catholic school broom closet, writes about the music that arrived at the same time as his teens, and how it inspired him. Continue reading →

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Confessions of a Crybaby

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Robert Burke Warren

Crying is good for you, but sometimes it’s hard to manage, especially when it’s intense and you’ve got stuff to do. Robert Burke Warren comes clean about being a crybaby, the good, the bad, and the redemptive. Continue reading →

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