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Songwriter and car-crash survivor Vic Chesnutt talks about life, death, and a new album.
The late soul singer's longtime friend and co-producer speaks about a new four-disc retrospective.
Boyer, who died in July, had a profound impact on gospel music over the past 50 years.
Our full coverage includes a timeline, important recordings, your songs and predictions for the future.
The copyright holder of "The Kookaburra Song" says it's unlawfully sampled in a Men at Work song.
As I was driving home from my Thanksgiving vacation, nearing New York City and its inevitable traffic, already tired from six hours in the car, relief came to me in the form of a local radio station: New Jersey's WFDU.
As I'm sure many of you did, I listened to a lot of radio when I was younger. I recorded Rick Dees' and Case Kasem's shows onto a cassette player, trying to cut off the garrulous DJ intros, so that I'd have nothing but music. I'd listen back to the songs during the week and then tape over them the following weekend. I wasn't very selective in what I recorded; these weren't mixes with an intended sequence or overarching theme. Instead, the tapes were documents of pop culture, of fads, and of my own childhood whims and wishes.
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Thanks to Iggy Pop's assistance, Jemina Pearl's "I Hate People" is garage-rock heaven.
