Kate Walter recalls attending Woodstock in 1969 with her boyfriend — a few years before they split up and both came out.
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Images Present Themselves: A Conversation With Photographer Burk Uzzle
Some of the most iconic images get captured when you’re just out for a stroll. What you do with these images is a political act.
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Remembering Woodstock ’94
On the concert’s 25th anniversary, Steve Edwards reflects on the mud, the music, and the myths he lives by.
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“Cocaine, Speed, and Gallons of Jack Daniel’s”: The Last Rock ‘n’ Roll Superstars Were … Korn?
The hook of Steven Hyden’s feature on Korn’s seminal 1998 album Follow the Leader (of which I owned a copy, even though I listened to maybe just three songs, including ‘Freak on Leash’) is that the quartet, helmed by Jonathan Davis, are the last true rock-and-rollers: Mounds of cocaine, sex in the recording booth, and millions […]
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The Rolling Stones’ Dark Masterpiece
Many people say the 1960s ended at Altamont, when the Hell’s Angels fatally stabbed an eighteen year-old black man named Meredith Hunter during a huge, Woodstock-like music festival. The Rolling Stones were playing “Under My Thumb” during the murder, just feet away. In Slate, Jack Hamilton writes about the album the Rolling Stones recorded after […]