(I Barely) Remember the Alamo
A Cherokee Strip Club Adventure
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(I Barely) Remember the Alamo
The Grim Reaper’s 2020 Playlist
We lost a whole world of music
When I first set out to compile a playlist of musicians who passed in 2020, I knew it would be a bigger task than usual, given the number of COVID-related …
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Eternally Elvis
Reconsidering the King of Rock & Roll at 85
Elvis Presley has now been dead longer than he lived, and in the years since his untimely passing, the cruelty of time and the whims of social change have reduced …
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Everybody Sings the Beatles
From 1963 to today, covering the Fabs has never gone out of style
Warning: This article is 3100 words long and I freely admit it just barely skims the surface of the subject matter. So don’t @ me about your favorite Beatles cover …
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American Top 40 at 50
Casey Kasem's hit parade raised a generation on radio
Today is Independence Day, 2020, and it is fair to say that times in our fair nation are cuckoo-bananas. But the date is auspicious in that it marks the 50th …
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The Eternal Struggle Playlist
Fashions come and go, but message music defies irrelevance
Well, 2020 has been a wild ride so far, and we’re not even halfway through the calendar yet. Remember in January when a Delta Airlines 777 dumped 15,000 gallons of …
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Power Pop: Echoes of the British Invasion
From Mersey to Jersey, the kids are still alright
Clockwise from top left: The Beatles in their US television debut (1964), Todd Rundgren on “Midnight Special” (1973), Cheap Trick at the height of their powers (1978), Rundgren acolytes the …
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