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March 12, 2018
Jo Livingstone
NME and Me: A Brief History of the Best Music Mag of the 20th Century
Looking back at 65 years of the essential arbiter of pop music, whose famed print edition is soon to close down.
March 9, 2016
Alex Shephard
Remembering George Martin’s best non-Beatles production work.
March 9, 2016
Jeet Heer
George Martin turned the Beatles into studio musicians.
January 21, 2016
Marissa Brostoff
How David Bowie Avoided the Cliché of the Aging Rock Star
Bowie managed to resist the cult of youth that later trapped Mick Jagger and others of their generation.
December 23, 2015
Alex Shephard
The Beatles are coming to Spotify and Apple and even Tidal (but not Rdio because Rdio is dead).
March 8, 2015
Bryan Appleyard
The Happiness Conspiracy
Against optimism and the cult of positive thinking
November 16, 2012
Jason Diamond
From Jukeboxes to YouTube: How Billboard Is Catching Up With The Times
January 7, 2010
David Hajdu
Pretending
April 1, 2009
David Thomson
Wishin' and Mopin'
October 22, 2008
David Hajdu
Get Back
January 7, 1991
Louis Menand
Life in the Stone Age
Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone, and the puritanical counterculture.
December 24, 1984
John Lahr
Exiles on Easy Street
December 2, 1981
John Lahr
The Beatles Considered
It was twenty years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.
August 19, 1967
Brian Wenham
Pot Britannica: The All-Time High

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