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BACHIR ATTAR AND THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA

John Kruth·September 14, 2020

Though Brian Jones brought world-wide notice to these Moroccan master musicians in the early 1970s, their tradition goes back a millennium. Beyond Jones and the Stones, they’ve influenced Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Bill Laswell, Steve Lacy, Peter Gabriel and Sonic...

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MY FAVORITE ALCHEMIST: AN HOMAGE TO HAL WILLNER

Gary Lippman·September 10, 2020

The release of Hal Willner’s final recorded project, Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T.Rex, got Gary Lippman thinking about his friend and ‘master alchemist.’ Just as he’d been doing since forever, Willner reimagined Bolan’s work with the...

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SHOPPING WITH A PURPOSE: PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR HEART IS

Amy Haben·September 9, 2020

The pandemic and the killing of George Floyd have unleashed a global wave of dissent unprecedented in our lifetimes. But these events only brought to the surface pent-up frustrations and anger that simmered while the planet warmed, corporations consolidated power,...

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BEN REY: A NEW YORK PUNK INSTITUTION

Larry Baumhor·September 8, 2020

Inspired by his visits to Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s Let It Rock shop in London, Ben Rey began wearing his own self-made punk fashions in the 1970s and just never stopped once he relocated to New York City. He...

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ROLLING STONE: LIFE AND DEATH OF BRIAN JONES

Gary Lucas·September 7, 2020

The acclaimed guitarist Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, Gods and Monsters, Lou Reed, et al.) has long held a special flame for Brian Jones, the co-founder of the Rolling Stones whose deep love of American blues gave the band...

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TINA BELL’S HIDDEN LEGACY: THE BLACK WOMAN WHO CREATED THE SOUND OF GRUNGE

Jen B. Larson·September 3, 2020

In 1983, the Seattle band Bam Bam, fronted by a talented, elegant Black woman named Tina Bell, created a sound and lyrical foundation for a genre that white men with knit hats and plaid shirts would later make famous as...

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REMEMBERING CAMERON AND THE LATE BOHEMIAN WORLD OF L.A.

Tosh Berman·September 2, 2020

Marjorie Cameron (1922-1995)—better known as ‘Cameron’—was a renegade even by the standards of L.A.’s various bohemian subcultures. An artist and occultist, she possessed a magnetic presence that drew people like Kenneth Anger, Anais Nin and Samson de Brier to her....

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STEVE EARLE: GHOSTS OF WEST VIRGINIA AND THE JOB OF EMPATHY

Noah Lekas·September 1, 2020

Steve Earle has charted his own path, musical and otherwise, since he arrived in Nashville at age 19. Guitar Town, his 1986 album, was his breakthrough, melding folk, country and rock ‘n’ roll into a fully original new sound and...

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GEORGE BARRIS & ED “BIG DADDY” ROTH: THE STONES VS. BEATLES OF ‘60s L.A. KAR KULTURE

Tony Mostrom·August 31, 2020

Ed “Big Daddy” Roth and George Barris created a new visual language that captured the unbridled spirit of Southern California starting in the late 1950s. In print, on cars and on screens big (film) and small (TV), their artistry spoke...

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WALTER LURE: LAST MAN ROCKIN’

James Marshall·August 27, 2020

The death earlier this week of Walter Lure, one of the original Heartbreakers, was yet another tough blow laid on us by the year 2020. James Marshall offers a tribute to the guitarist and songwriter who served as both a...

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JESSIE MAE HEMPHILL: HANGIN’ WITH ‘THE SHE-WOLF OF COMO’

Cree McCree·August 26, 2020

A five-time W.C. Handy award-winner and the fourth generation of a venerable musical family, Jessie Mae Hemphill (1923-2006), from the North Mississippi Hill Country, sang songs wrenched from her own life experience, celebrating the transformative power of the blues for...

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GOING FOR BAROQUE: THE LEFT BANKE STORY

Scott Schinder·August 25, 2020

With the death of Tom Finn last month, all four original members (Finn, Michael Brown, George Cameron, Steve Martin Caro) of The Left Banke are gone. Baroque pop pioneers whose influence is still felt today, The Left Banke were an...

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REMINDER RECORDS: JEREMY THOMPSON’S LOVE OF LOST RECORDS

Eric Davidson·August 24, 2020

After his first vinyl reissues label, Sing Sing Records, was laid to rest in 2014, Jeremy Thompson couldn’t get the jones for lost rock rarities out of his system. He has jumped back into the reissues market with his new...

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GAIL ANN DORSEY: LIFE BEFORE AND AFTER BOWIE

Robert Gourley·August 20, 2020

After two decades as a member of David Bowie’s band, Gail Ann Dorsey never put her bass guitar down, becoming an indispensable part of Lenny Kravitz’s band and pursuing other solo and collaborative projects, including recent work with The National....

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Jack Kerouac based his muse/lover “Mardou Fox” in The Subterraneans on Alene Lee, a mixed race (Black/Cherokee) bohemian writer and intellectual who was a part of the NYC Beat circle of Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Lucien Carr. Despite her intimate connection to these writers, the real Alene Lee is nowhere to be found in most accounts and biographies—partly due to her own reticence to speak. Erika Blair did some digging and presents a more rounded portrait of this fascinating woman. Read more!

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