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Productive Ways Not to Like Music
2January 8, 2016 by admin
“Over the past two decades, the impulse to talk shit about bands and the people who like them—the impulse, that …
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In Defense of Schlock
10May 27, 2014 by admin
In a 166-word blurb in the 1983 edition of the Rolling Stone Record Guide, Dave Marsh, the Bruce Springsteen biographer and …
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Epic Tuesday Reads #4: Five Years, Two Million Words
Leave a commentApril 15, 2014 by admin
In the last five years, there have been nearly 3400 songs covered from over 60 countries, with about 30,000 individual …
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Epic Tuesday Reads #2: The Trouble With Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Chart
Leave a commentApril 15, 2014 by admin
Ideally, any effective genre chart—be it R&B, Latin, country, even alt-rock—doesn’t just track a particular strain of music, which can be marked …
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Epic Tuesday Reads #1: Geeshie & Elvis
1April 15, 2014 by admin
The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie: On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and then vanished …
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“On Women Writing About Music”
Leave a commentMarch 23, 2014 by admin
“Allow me to set a spell in my rocking chair and reminisce about the days when I was coming …
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Singles Jukebox Comment Competition
1March 18, 2014 by admin
The Singles Jukebox turned five this week, and to celebrate this achievement, they’re having a contest: “So for the next …
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