The Flaming Lips: Two Blobs Fucking Stereo Mixdown
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A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage
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Most labels put out records to get a band known,” Mr. MacKaye said. “The idea of Dischord was to document something that already had energy. In the beginning we were interested in documenting the music offerings of our scene, and it just kept going.
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NYT: Fugazi Live Series: A Post-Punk Band’s Archive of Shows
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Over time, Callahan, who is forty-four, started to resemble a particular kind of seventies folk-and-country artist: a songwriter like Johnny Cash or Willie Nelson, who engaged in both pop and politics, and who helped create the notion of a steady-handed American song that was rooted in verse and chorus but was open to all sorts of subject matter.
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Bill Callahan’s American Songs : The New Yorker
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R.E.M. interviewed by Pitchfork.
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Ian MacKaye Talks Fugazi Live Archives, Legacy, Nostalgia, Occupy Musicians | News | Pitchfork
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life,…
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Asimov on the U.S. culture of ignorance.
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