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Beastie boys: they were once a band of rhyming hopefuls who were dismissed as a novelty act. But two decades later, and with a new album, they're at the
Nearly 20 years ago, three hip-hop-obsessed Jewish teenagers from New York City--Adam "Adrock" Horovitz, Michael "Mike D" Diamond, ......(Continue Reading) Still Jill: on the eve of her new album, songstress Jill Scott reflects on the high cost of fame, the importance of her music, and the ways we can learn
So I'm gonna give this to you in snippets. Collage what I know about Jill Scott and lay it out for you like Bearden would. Because Scott is very much ......(Continue Reading)Talkin' about a revolution: hungry for politically charged music? Listen up to a new generation of protest songs
It was really two songs that got me started thinking about the power of peace music. First was the plaintive wail of Bob Dylan in his 1964 classic, "The Times They Are A-Changin'." The se...(Continue Reading)The allegiance that I can't quite pledge: Benjamin Markovits, once described by a schoolmate as half-American, half-English and half-German, grew up under
Every morning at the beginning of school, we stood up and said the Pledge of Allegiance. I lived then in Austin, Texas, where I turned the corner of ......(Continue Reading)I won a prize—[pounds sterling]1,000 and a silver pen—and I was really grouchy. I suffered, my publisher suffered, the cats suffered. Very few
You may, like me, have spent much of your life wondering what happily ever after was like -- that bit of the story after the final full stop. Well, not the final full stop, obviously, but the penul...(Continue Reading)
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