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Featured, MusicJuly 17, 2022

Death: For the Whole World…

Death was just another African-American R&B act from Detroit before the Stooges and the MC5 changed their lives

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Featured, Music, News & CultureDecember 8, 2021

Beat Generation in the Generation of Beats

Chuck D looked at me quizzically, his furrowed brow barely showing beneath the bill of his black Raiders cap. “Sure,” the rapper said as I handed him a yellowed copy of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl. “I’ll read it. Sounds interesting.”

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FeaturedNovember 30, 2021

TRL: My Life at MTV

In 2012, I looked back with humor at my life at MTV Networks in the late 1990s. Part of my duties at the music channel was babysitting boybands like *NSYNC and The Backstreet Boys. Kind of.

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Featured, MusicNovember 3, 2021

Lisa Germano: Musical Therapy

Lisa Germano was one of the most interesting and adventurous musicians of the 1990s. Today, for some reason, she’s a mere footnote in the history of that era — an unsung heroine.

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Featured, MusicJune 28, 2021

Vic Chesnutt: Famous By Association

In 1996, seven years after I wrote my first profile of the late Vic Chesnutt for Option magazine, I flew down to his Athens, Georgia, home to do this full feature for Rolling Stone.

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Featured, MusicMarch 4, 2021

Beck: The Rolling Stone Interview

My first Rolling Stone cover story, in 1997, was sort of a Part 2 of an earlier cover story I did on Beck for Option in 1994.

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FeaturedJanuary 8, 2020

All the Young Dudes: Bowie at 50

TweetIn 1997, I was invited to a small birthday party for David Bowie at the English restaurant Tea & Sympathy in downtown Manhattan. At the […]

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Featured, MusicNovember 22, 2015

When Will the Grateful Dead Stop Trolling Us?

Tweet Last week, my friend Whitney suggested I write an essay on the (Grateful) Dead’s incessant trolling of America in 2015. We’d been talking about […]

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News & CultureJuly 20, 2013

Rolling Stone’s Boston bombing suspect cover is a false controversy

TweetOver the past three days, I’ve been asked numerous times how I feel, as a former Rolling Stone editor, about the magazine’s latest cover featuring Boston […]

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