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Real Life Rock Top 10: June 15, 2026
Novels, embarrassments, nihilisms, obsessions, and a guitar solo
1 Lara Trump, “I Won’t Back Down” (First Class). In his Substack newsletter A Legend in His Own Minefield, John Mendelssohn suggests that with the implosion of the Freedom 25...
Ask Greil: June 9, 2026
The June edition of Real Life Rock Top 10 will be posted later in the month.
Dear Greil: I have two 17-year-old students working on a podcast, trying to understand what “Classic Rock” is. Is it “white-guy music?” Is it just marketin...
Real Life Rock Top 10: May 6, 2026
Hospital diary
1–3 Stanford Hospital, 500 Pasteur Drive, Palo Alto (April 21). A few days after a third open-heart surgery—the last two in 2022—I needed to feel more than I could manage on my own hooked up in a bed: to feel more alive and...
Ask Greil: May 1, 2026
Hi Greil, As I’ve seen for signs at several No Kings rallies, So many questions, so little space. But one thing I’ve thought about recently is, What does Greil make of “I Pity the Poor Immigrant”? I saw that you touched on it in a talk, say...
Real Life Rock Top 10: April 8, 2026
History lessons, why UK post-punk will live at least as long as the people who make it, how some people lose their voices and others never find them
1 Mary Lucia, What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To (Minnesota). F...
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