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Idle Thoughts
The idleness of thought entails the capacity to intervene — carefully, incisively, even forcefully — without being beholden to the interests of the institutions that impose themselves on us.
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Idle Thoughts
Jun 30, 2021
A Song for the Fourth of July 2021
Sufjan Stevens reminds us to look in the mirror this Independence…
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Jul 1, 2020
The Fourth of July Is a Day for Protest Songs
A Little Less Celebration, a Little More (Direct)…
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May 6, 2020
30 Years, 30 Songs
Music to Mark a New Decade
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Mar 3, 2020
Against Punk Formalism
Rolling Stone
v. the Observer v. MacKaye
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Oct 30, 2019
14 Songs for Halloween
From werewolves to serial killers to ghosts to pure mayhem.
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Aug 24, 2018
The World’s Ugliest Music?
Not Even Close.
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Aug 22, 2018
Ranking the Theme Songs of The Wire
Five seasons, five versions of a Tom Waits song. Which best…
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Jan 9, 2018
“Genius is not enough.”
Jimi: All Is by My Side
(John Ridley, 2013)
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Aug 31, 2017
Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti Should Have Been a Single-LP (Part II)
Zeppelin’s 1976 Presence record would have been better, too.
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Idle Thoughts
Aug 31, 2017
Led Zeppelin’s
Physical Graffiti Should Have Been a Single-LP (Part I)
Audacious, yes—but this thought experiment presents two Le
d Zepp
elin albums as they should have been.
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