Watch: Writer Adam Gopnik explains just how revolutionary rock music can be and why liberty is "the freedom to tell people what they don't want to hear".
Larkin Poe perform on Audiotree Live, August 28, 2017. Purchase the session! We split profits 50/50 with the band: iTunes: http://apple.co/2xdKGo0 Spotify
What’s odd to me—no, it’s not odd, it’s depressing—is the way that rock music, particularly rock music of the 1960s and ’70s, has become the soundtrack to the reactionary right, the way it’s become the white-male right-wing revanchist soundtrack. Yeah, the way this music gets appropriated by that side of things; it kind of boggles the mind. But at the same time, it speaks to the extent to which a lot of that music has been really drained of its context, and drained of understandings of the contexts that produced it, understandings of the various political and cultural commitments of the artists that produce
Electricity attracts devils and demons. Other instruments attract other spirits. An acoustic guitar attracts Casper. A mandolin attracts Wendy. But an electric guitar attracts Beelzebub.
Many musicians have tried to interpret the French legend Serge Gainsbourg’s songs – but no one more successfully than his lover and muse Jane Birkin, writes Cath Pound.
Directed by Richard Linklater. Waking Life explores a wide range of philosophical issues including the nature of reality, dreams, consciousness, the meaning of life, free will, and existentialism.
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Directed by Richard Linklater. Waking Life explores a wide range of philosophical issues including the nature of reality, dreams, consciousness, the meaning of life, free will, and existentialism.
Its bouncy beats and tuneful melodies often serve up serious, even subversive, messages. The music demands more careful listening, writes Benjamin Ramm.
Starring Frank Sinatra, Teddy Infuhr, Harry McKim, Ronnie Ralph, Merrill Rodin and Alex Stordahl. Directed Mervyn LeRoy. Made to stem the rising tide o
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