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Featured, Music, News & CultureOctober 22, 2021

Sam Andrew: Last of the Psychedelic Pioneers

Sam Andrew’s death follows those of bandmates Janis Joplin, who famously died from a heroin overdose in 1970, and James Gurley, who died of a heart attack in 2009.

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Featured, Music, News & CultureAugust 16, 2018

‘To Live Without You Would Only Mean Heartbreak’: Aretha Franklin, 1942-2018

Easily the most influential female African American singer that popular music has ever produced, Aretha Franklin took the gospel music of Mahalia Jackson out of church and onto the pop charts.

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MusicOctober 27, 2013

15 Minutes with You: Lou Reed, 1942-2013

Tweet “Ah, baby, you’re so vicious…” Reading on Facebook today that Lou Reed had died, I had one of those visceral reactions. I literally felt […]

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