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New Shots in Kurt Cobain Case
There’s a fine line between the truth and a good story when it comes to celebrities. And when it comes to the death of a celebrity like Kurt Cobain, there is a fine line between the findings of the police investigation that ruled his demise a suicide and the conspiracy theories that insist the singer [...]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day from INSOMNIA
I first heard The Pogues when I was a junior in college, working a journalism internship at an alternative music and arts paper in Lansing, MI. My editor was into his job mostly for all the free music he was mailed and all the free shows he was invited to. Like all good music journalists, [...]
Pussy Riot Whipped
After a short visit to America and an appearance on Colbert Report, Nadya Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina planned to return to Russia just in time for the Olympics. Reunited with their Pussy Riot bandmates, the girls and a male friend brought along as a camera man planned to film another protest music video for the [...]
Dylan’s TIMES at 50
50 years ago this month, Bob Dylan released The Times They Are A-Changin’. For me, Dylan’s third studio record doesn’t offer the revelatory visions that are on display on The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan — that album opens with “Blowin’ in the Wind” and includes both “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” and “Don’t Think Twice, It’s [...]
Straight, No Chaser at 25
Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser is one of my most important movies. The documentary was released 25 years ago in 1989. I saw it when I was a junior in college in the early 1990′s. The film assembles German television footage from the late 1960′s, ties it together with contemporaneous interviews and even includes a [...]
Adrian Pride: Psychedeverly
Last night we lost Phil Everly of The Everly Brothers, ending one of rock music’s greatest duos forever. It’s always a big blow when a band loses a member, but when you’re talking about two brothers who sang together all of their lives, it’s a regretful coup de grace. Phil’s death is a sad occasion, [...]
A Punk Prayer
As any fan of the Coincidence Control Network knows, we’ve been following the Pussy Riot story very closely since the band/action art collective’s infamous performance at Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior on February 21, 2012. Although the podcast has committed itself to being a weekly at this point, we’ve experienced a number of technical [...]
Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolutions
Not only was Woody Guthrie the father of folk music, he also knew how to make a New Year’s resolution. The Brain Pickings site explains: As a lover and maker of lists, I often agree with Umberto Eco that “the list is the origin of culture.” But, more than that, it can also be a [...]
David Bowie’s Serious Moonlight
30 years have passed since David Bowie released his 15th record Let’s Dance. Co-produced by Nile Rodgers and featuring a track listing including the title song, “China Girl” (co-written with Iggy Pop), “Modern Love” and “Cat People (Putting out Fire)” — which was later used to maximum effect in the Inglourious Basterds soundtrack — Let’s [...]
