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Rare Jeff Buckley Live Footage To Screen With New Doc

Nearly 30 minutes of previously unreleased footage featuring the late Jeff Buckley performing solo at the Middle East in Cambridge, Ma., on Feb. 19, 1994, will be exclusively shown following theatrical screenings of the upcoming documentary It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, which arrives on Aug. 8. “Discovering this footage felt like a dream,” said director […]

July 30, 2025
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What ‘The Last American Virgin’ Teaches Us About Our Humanity, 4 Decades Later

Hollywood is obsessed with stories about young people losing their virginity, from 1982’s aptly titled Losin’ It, to one of the few with a fully developed frontal cortex, 2005’s The 40-Year-Old Virgin. But there’s one standout film that consistently sparks a virtual firestorm, popping up every time a social channel needs an organic algorithm boost: […]

July 30, 2025
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DO THE HUSTLE

For centuries, street singing was considered the lowest form of a musical career. Street musicians — buskers — were looked on as glorified beggars. But cities that once outlawed busking have come to embrace it — as a way to renew foot traffic in the age of Amazon.  While street singers used to depend on […]

July 30, 2025
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Slushii’s “Chrysalis” Is a Dreamlike Leap Into His Alternate Universe

The genre-blurring artist opens a new chapter with an album that’s as visual as it is sonic Julian Scanlan, the genre-defiant producer best known as Slushii, has always toyed with duality: hard drops vs. soft melodies, extroversion vs. vulnerability, the digital vs. the deeply human. But Chrysalis, his new 18-track album released with his ambient […]

July 29, 2025
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John Oswald Turns the Grateful Dead’s ‘Dark Star’ into a Black Hole

“‘Dark Star’ is always playing somewhere. All we do is tap into it,” Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh supposedly said. Grayfolded, John Oswald’s epic collage of the Dead’s hallmark longform jam, assembled from fragments of more than 100 different performances spanning the band’s 30-year career, could be seen as an attempt to simultaneously channel every […]

July 29, 2025
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Ben Nichols Leans Into Poetry and His Arkansas Past On New Solo Record

Lucero keeps Ben Nichols busy. The Memphis-based collective has been going strong since 1998, touring constantly and releasing acclaimed albums, such as their 12th LP Should’ve Learned by Now (2023). Earlier this year, Nichols and Rick Steff put out Lucero Unplugged, a collection of stripped-down favorites from the band’s vast discography. It’s no wonder that […]

July 29, 2025
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Talking Heads Reissue Campaign Offers More Versions of ‘More Songs About Buildings and Food’

Though the final Talking Heads album came out in 1988, the band never really went away. Unlike defunct groups trapped in a cycle of rediscovery every generation or so, Talking Heads have remained indelible, hip with both the folks old enough to remember and art-damaged youngsters seeing David Byrne in an oversized suit for the […]

July 29, 2025
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