Lawrence Peryer·3d agoSteven E. Jones on Producer Tom Wilson and the Pop of 1966His new book, Everything Is Everything: Tom Wilson and Pop Music in 1966, is out now. It follows the Waco-born producer through sessions…
Mehreen·Jun 14Notes From underground, by Fyodor DostoveskyNotes from underground is a novel published by Fyodor Dostoevsky in 1864. In this work Dostoevsky attempts to justify the reality of human…
InThe RiffbyEdgar Street Books·Mar 2When Andy Warhol Discovered the Velvet Underground at Café Bizarre: ‘A Dump’‘New York Rock & Roll History: The 1960s’ Book ExcerptA response icon2A response icon2
Steven Prutzman·Oct 24, 2025My Lou Reed experience (repost)This is a repost from my blog in 2013, upon the death of Lewis Allen Reed.
InCatharsis ChroniclesbyJohn E Marks·Oct 4, 2025The Greatest GiftLove alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out, even to the edge of doom. Shakespeare, ‘Sonnet 116’A response icon1A response icon1
InThe LarkbyJohn E Marks·Aug 11, 2025Mind the Gap: Work-in-Progress“Noon - ripe as thunder and silent as thought had fled unfingered”― Mervyn Peake GormenghastA response icon2A response icon2
InTránsitos y saqueosbyJuan Francisco Fernández Domínguez·May 12, 2025Gritar desde el vacío: Sonic Youth y el ruido organizado del deseoImagen: Sonic Youth live 20050707, de Daniele Dalledonne. Wikimedia Commons, licencia CC BY-SA 2.0.
Master Trainer·Dec 5, 2024The Velvet UndergroundBy Julian Casablancas: When you listen to a classic-rock station today, why don’t they play the Velvet Underground?