“That it would end badly was a given, a gift, and their glory that we now celebrate and levitate.” – Lenny Kaye (from his introduction) Paul Drummond, a renowned antiquarian bookseller in London, started as a fan and ended as…
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Zachary Corsa
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When one talks about Teenage Fanclub, they talk about the fact that their third full-length release, Bandwagon-esque, beat out Nirvana's Nevermind for Spin's 1991 Album Of The Year list. It's a clever piece of armchair trivia that is inseparable…
In the wake of the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Dion Johnson, and an unconscionable number of other Black people in this country, two Black women in the music industry—Atlantic Records executive Jamila Thomas and Platoon…
The Beatles are a band so steeped in iconography that peeling back the facade of the Fab Four can sometimes be as rewarding as their music. A closer look at the relationship that has done its part to shape so much of their fans' lives can often…
Almost 50 years ago, a group of Jamaican producers embarked on a series of experiments with reggae tracks that still reverberate through popular music today, writes Justin Quirk. The story of popular music is impossible to separate from the…
Here is a line from the latest safety advisory for reporters issued by the US-based Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ): Taking into account the increased levels of violence and tactics used by both police and protesters, ballistic…
With a camera peering out over the landscape of Tivoli, Namibia, Bartosz Wojczyński focused on the sky. The Polish photographer created a hypnotic timelapse spanning 24 hours that has a focal point in the atmosphere rather than on…
Perhaps inspired or pissed off by the deification of his dad's historically haunted legacy, Hank Jr. took his enormous familial talent and rebelled against, well, being a reputable country star. Here he moves past half-assed Nashville nostalgia…
