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• 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)

• Solitude: Bon Iver vs. Henry David Thoreau

  by Bob Hill•October 1, 2008•Comments (0)

  Justin Vernon went to the woods because he wished to live deliberately. He wished to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to route all that was not life… to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the genuine meanness of it and publish it to the world… Oh, wait a minute. That wasn’t Vernon at all, was it? Maybe it was Chris McCandless (read more)

• Part II: Rock ‘n’ Roll Animals in Europe, '73

  by Dinky Dawson•October 1, 2008•Comments (0)

  “No,” he said, smiling, “It’s not part of the tank.” Unscrewing one end of the line from the block, he asked, “Would you like a puff? It’s full of hash.” (read more)

• Questions and Answers With Todd Snider

  by Matt Gewolb•October 1, 2008•Comments (0)

  Todd Snider, the endearingly eccentric East Nashville folksinger, has never shied away from the important issues of the day. (read more)

• Give Me Convenience, Give Me Death, Just Tell Me Your Real Damn Name

  by James Greene, Jr.•September 24, 2008•Comments (3)

  I remember the moment I realized writing a book about the Dead Kennedys would be something of an uphill battle. It was in February of 2002. I had just been introduced to East Bay Ray, the group's long-faced guitarist, in the middle of an empty rock venue in Jacksonville, FL. The DK were on their first "reunion" tour with Dr. Know singer Brendan Cruz taking the place of absent original vocalist Jello Biafra. (read more)

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