Amy Rigby’s new memoir, Girl to City, crackles with the kind of sharp insights and perfectly chosen details her fans already love.
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Chicago’s Rude Guest bridged two-tone and third-wave ska in the 80s
Rude Guest’s tape-only output hurt their legacy, but local ska label Jump Up just reissued their entire discography—also on tape.
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 1/9: Jay Z, Hellcab, and Punk Rock Karaoke
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, January 9
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An American Idiot on Broadway
Billie Joe Armstrong hits the Great White Way in Broadway Idiot.
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Video Drone: Driverx4: The Lost and Found Films of Sara Driver
A two-disc retrospective looks at New York indie Sara Driver
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Four surprising things about the new Wallflowers single
The highly unexpected “Reboot the Mission”
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The worst record that I love to pieces
Big Audio Dynamite’s brilliant, awful Tighten Up Vol. 88
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European Union Film Festival, Week Two
The 14th European Union Film Festival continues Friday, March 11, through Thursday, March 31.
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Calling Motherfucking Bullmotherfucking Shit on “the Pynchonian Realm of Highbrow Slapstick,” Motherfuckers.
The Atlantic gets a little too fucking precious when it tries placing @MayorEmanuel in a broader literary context.
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3/6 — Richard Bellia opening and film screening
3/6 –Richard Bellia opening and screening of “But We Have the Music” at ThinkArt
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Rock of ages: talkin’ bout two generations
The phenomenal and unexpected success of Eric Clapton’s Unplugged record has instigated a muted revolution in the record industry. The music marketplace is currently saturating with a soporific tide of rock and roll at its most laid back. Paul McCartney, Neil Young, and Rod Stewart, among others, have all mothballed their amps, buffed their acoustic […]
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Terms of interment: retrospecting the Ramones and the Clash
One of the most durable achievements of punk was the way it undermined pop music’s traditional notions of its audience. In the 60s there were the hippie-dippie presumptions of commonality between artist and fan, and the expectation that the two would forge a united front against all sorts of barricades and threats; rock ‘n’ roll […]