https://shorturl.at/4Xolz 1 I devoured this book. I bought my first issue of “Rolling Stone” at a newsstand right by the Columbia campus in December 1969. If I remember correctly, it was the issue with Mick Jagger on the cover, with a full explication of the Altamont debacle. This was manna from heaven, this was everything […]

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I’m disturbed by the annual Top Ten lists. In many cases, they’re comprised of music I’ve never heard, if not acts I’ve never heard of. And there’s a distinct focus on pop, what is in the Spotify Top 50, and hipster music that is loved by a small slice of the public. Meanwhile when you […]