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Cleansed by Mud: Burning Man, Lost and Found
Bad weather at the Burning Man festival brought 73,000 attendees to the brink of disaster
Social Isolation: 6 Classic Songs of Love and Struggle (and Rage) to Rediscover
Life under quarantine can be dreary. But great music can lift us up, help us feel better connected to…
Ian Brennan Knocks Pop Stars Off Their Pedestal With his New Book
Ian Brennan’s Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth is a polemic against the domination of the world’s ears…
To the Limit with Outernational
‘Start a fuck’n band,’ the Clash’s Joe Strummer told Miles Solay. He did.
‘Tales of America’: J.S. Ondara’s Transplanted Melodies
The American Dream probably means something different to each person you’d ask. For some, it’s getting married, moving to…
Offerings from local working-class heroes and global superstars make our music critics’ list of the year’s best records.
Marc Ribot’s New and Vintage ‘Songs of Resistance’
The labor movement had “Solidarity Forever.” Civil Rights had “Mississippi Goddam,” “Strange Fruit” and the spirituals activists sang with…
In 2009, the singer-songwriter Shea Diamond was released after serving a 10-year sentence at a series of men’s prisons…