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Real Life Rock Top 10: October 5, 2026
The unfixable John Lydon, the Constitution as folk music, listening to the cave of Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, and the rock criticism of Marlon James
1 Sleater-Kinney, Greek Theatre, Berkeley (September 9). In December 2012 I went to the Barclays...
Ask Greil: September 29, 2026
I’ve been thinking about a musical language that seems to have almost disappeared from contemporary popular music: the fully formed, immediately singable instrumental melody—a melody capable of carrying an entire piece and remaining in the...
Real Life Rock Top 10: September 4, 2026
How to speak clearly. And how not to.
1 Beths, “Expert in a Dying Field” (Carpark/YouTube, 2022). It’s wonderful when a band you’ve never heard of becomes your favorite as soon as you do. That happened to me with the Beatles, it happened w...
Ask Greil: September 1, 2026
Not a question, just a condolence for the loss of your friend Dave Marsh.
I was in high school when he wrote infamous reviews about Queen and cover stories about Springsteen, and I followed him through his Rock & Rap Confidential days thro...
Ask Greil: August 17, 2026
In the early 1990s I was in college in Athens, Ohio, and I had really thirsty ears, but information moved differently back then, so I was doing whatever I felt I had to do to survive as a listener, and sometimes survival looked like having...
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