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American Tunes

This is our country. These are our songs

What Was the First "No-Filler" Rock Album?

What Was the First "No-Filler" Rock Album?

A question for you

The Default Position

Cultural Consumption

The Default Position

Well, hello there

Bootleg City: Sinéad O'Connor in 1990

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Bootleg City: Sinéad O'Connor in 1990

We do not want what we have not got, unless we have not got this concert recording

New Music Friday: 6/13/25

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 6/13/25

I am not afraid of New Music, for I am learning how to sail my Friday

Lou Reed, staring into a future in which some people inexplicably hail Metal Machine Music as a classic

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Earmageddon: Lou Reed, "Metal Machine Music"

Dextrorotory components synthesis of sympathomimetic musics

Blindspotting: Gang of Four, "Entertainment!"

Blindspotting: Gang of Four, "Entertainment!"

At home, he's a tourist

New Music Friday: 5/30/25

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 5/30/25

Thus we see how that the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into New Music Friday

Old Music Friday: 5/23/25

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Old Music Friday

Old Music Friday: 5/23/25

Looking back at the singles that debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 this week in 1985

Major Letdowns: Manfred Mann's Earth Band, "Masque"

Major Letdowns: Manfred Mann's Earth Band, "Masque"

"Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" album artwork (2002)

Blindspotting: Flaming Lips, "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords

Bootleg City: Bruce Springsteen in 2005-'06

Bootleg City: Bruce Springsteen in 2005-'06

Shaking off the devils and the dust

New Music Friday: 5/16/25

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New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 5/16/25

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the New Music that has turned my Friday

The One After the One-Hit Wonder

The One After the One-Hit Wonder, Part 6

Top 40 success can be so fleeting. Just ask these artists

Old Music Friday: 5/9/85

Old Music Friday

Old Music Friday: 5/9/85

Looking back at the singles that debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 this week in 1985

Close-up image of a hand touching a cloudy purple surface

Islands in the Stream

Islands in the Stream: 5/7/25

Giving some extra love to artists who aren't getting enough of it

Tool, "Lateralus"

Blindspotting: Tool, "Lateralus"

Let's get dark and play with time signatures!

Cropped cover of SPIN's 1994 Best New Music issue

Revisiting SPIN's 1994 New Music Preview

Kind of a disappointing issue, honestly

Cropped cover art for Cypress Hill's "Black Sunday" album

Blindspotting: Cypress Hill, "Black Sunday"

Time to break me off some

Dreamer Isioma, "I Am Going through Hell"

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 4/4/25

I am not afraid of New Music, for I am learning how to sail my Friday

Cropped cover art from the Stylistics' 2025 album "Falling in Love with My Girl"

You Again?: The Stylistics, "Falling in Love with My Girl"

Islands in the Stream: 4/1/25

Islands in the Stream: 4/1/25

Giving a little extra love to some artists who could use more of it

Grateful Dead, "American Beauty" (1970)

Blindspotting: Grateful Dead, "American Beauty"

What a long, strange trip it's been

Old Music Friday: 3/21/85

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Old Music Friday: 3/21/85

Counting down the singles that debuted on the Hot 100 this week in 1985

Cropped cover of SPIN's 1993 New Music Preview

Revisiting SPIN's 1993 New Music Preview

From the Buzz Bin to the cutout bin