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• Bob Dylan: The Period of Silence

  by Paul Williams•September 24, 2009•Comments (1)

  Originally published in Outlaw Blues, Chapter 3, August 1967 As I write this—August 1967—Bob Dylan has been silent for more than a year. It’s been a curious calm. Between Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde was a gap of some ten months—but a gap broken up with the release of several 45’s of exciting new material, a winter concert tour, a fascinating interview in Playboy, and finally the cheerful, triumphant “Rainy Day Women”—“Everybody must get stoned.” (read more)

• Wayne Kramer: Mad for the Racket and Not Near Done

  by Denise Sullivan•October 1, 2008•Comments (0)

  If ever there was a band of rock ‘n’ roll contrarians, it was Kramer's MC5, a ramshackle musical outfit typical of young bands in the post-Beatles/Stones era but with a trajectory that imploded them rather than skyrocketed them to fame. Claiming the avant-garde's Sun Ra and rock ‘n’ roll's Chuck Berry as inspiration, they started playing covers, and evolved to include in their repertoire grinding originals steeped (read more)

• Your Handy Guide to the Month in Music

  by Mike Conklin•September 3, 2008•Comments (2)

  It's rare that a month goes by without news breaking of a bunch of incredibly, absurdly rich people getting all hot and bothered about not being quite rich enough. (read more)

• The Heart of Saturday Night

  by Bob Hill•July 16, 2008•Comments (4)

  Those moments generally occur in the confines of my apartment shortly after 4am—there’s nothing more redeeming than turning the volume past 10 and rocking out to the Who’s Quadrophenia. (read more)

• Dark Side of the Death Star (or How I Wasted Eleven Months of My Life)

  by James Greene, Jr.•July 9, 2008•Comments (11)

  White Zombie’s landmark 1992 album La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 certainly seemed like the type of sample-heavy rock freak-out that would align perfectly with a wild, outer space adventure starring Mark Hamill. Also, I figured it would be pretty cool watching Darth Vader parade around to all those bad-ass metal riffs. That alone might keep me from dozing off in the middle of said experiment. The following evening (read more)

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