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Sonic Youth Gets Back, Public Enemy Gets Gamy
Friedrich Nietzsche, the Greil Marcus of his day, once noted, “There are two tragedies in a man’s life. The first is to have failed to have reached your goal; the second is to have reached it.”...
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Nostalgie de la Boo Boo Beat: Beastie Boys Do the Nasty
Way back in 1990, Our Year of the B-Boy, the soon-to-pass period when hip-hop was still golden and Slick Rick was considered a political prisoner, I went to get some cash out of an A.T.M. as my...
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Hey ho, let’s stay!
Yesterday, with its lease expiring at midnight, the Save CBGB crowd might have begged for mercy, dragged the governor to the Bowery, or searched for a last-minute legal loophole. Instead, they staged...
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Jay-Z’s American Gangster Is the Real Thing
The rapper Jay-Z recently told a reporter that Ridley Scott’s American Gangster, the film that opened on Nov. 2 depicting the dazzling rise and precipitous fall of the 70’s Harlem drug kingpin Frank...
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The Best Songs You Missed Last Week: Cher Lloyd, Major Lazer, More
This week we’re featuring new tracks from Major Lazer, Regina Spektor, Prophets of Rage, Cher Lloyd and MSTRKRFT.
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