Elliott Kozel takes out his phone to show me a photo of where he’s been whipped. The patch of inflammation covering his upper back is punctuated by a half dozen r
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Steven Adler should be dead. According to his mother, Deanna, Adler's “cast-iron constitution” kept his heart pumping when she found him on his bath
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As an adult who has written a decent amount about music over the past few years, I’ve found it deeply embarrassing to admit what a 311 stan I was as a teenager.
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It's a pervasive canard in music: Rock is dead. The popularity of hip-hop and EDM are indicators that the Fender Strat is no longer in vogue with the youth. It&#
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On Feb. 16, after six and a half years operating in Highland Park, Wombleton Records abruptly announced its closure with a brief message: The shop has closed its doo
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I enjoyed La La Land. As a jazz musician, jazz educator and sometime writer about jazz, I was surprised and compelled by director Damien Chazelle’s ambitious attem
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It all started with me looking around the room while playing a bill on a particularly white lineup. Because I work as a booker and curator as well, I had been design
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A warm greeting to all my fellow veterans of the Bowling Green Massacre (Kellyanne’s War).
KellCon, my alt-fact queen, brilliantly mangled a real event in histo
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USA is currently in one of its difficult periods. Ah, regression pains. At least comrade Trump is keeping things lively. Must be frustrating for him when so many peo
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When Fang formed in Berkeley in 1980, the band very quickly became one of the major players in the burgeoning Bay Area hardcore punk scene, alongside the likes of Fl
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It’s like sitting down to eat dinner, and you don’t realize that you haven't eaten all day, but you’re starving. And you don’t even know until you sit do
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It’s been my opinion for years that John Corabi, if not a better vocalist than Vince Neil in the abstract, was at the very least a better fit for Mötley Crüe. Ne
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