In this personal essay, Kavita Das writes about her childhood infatuation, young adult disillusionment, and later-in-life acceptance of Englebert Humperdink.
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The Dead End on My Record Shelf
I believed that there was no music existing in the world with an unbroken connection to its original context. I was wrong.
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He Always Hated Women. Then He Decided to Kill Them.
“Within hours of Beierle’s suicide, hate-site habitues had dubbed him “St. Yogacel” and were scrambling to copy and share the online caches of his music and videos that so perfectly reflected their own worldview.”
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Falling in Love with Chicago at Night: An Interview with Jessica Hopper
In “Night Moves,” Jessica Hopper is 80% on her bike and 20% at a show, memorializing a young adulthood spent in just one of “a million Chicagos” — but one that shaped a wide network of artists and writers.
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Bruce Springsteen: Sadness, Love, Madness, and Soul
“All you needed to do,” Springsteen says, “was to risk being your true self.” We ignore our demons at our peril.
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A Close Look at the Thing We Call ‘Celebrity’
Why do we care about famous people?
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Connie Bruck, San Francisco Chronicle Staff, Justin Heckert, Kent Babb, and Rob Harvilla.
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How Indie Went Jam, a Recent History from My Morning Jacket to Vampire Weekend
One pop music critic looks at the ways indie bands have incorporated elements from bands like Grateful Dead and Phish, and he wonders whether jam bands’ influence can revitalize indie rock at a time when it seems to have nowhere else to go. Some listeners might argue that labels like ‘jam’ and ‘indie’ don’t really […]
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A History of American Protest Music: Which Side Are You On?
Just as we were in the 1930s and ’60s, America is suffering a moral crisis. We have to decide which side we are on: hate and exclusion, or justice, inclusion, and democracy?
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This Month In Books: What Did We Miss?
The end of the year is a time for regrets. What are the books we didn’t feature?
