So, Now Country Songs Are Just About Other, Better Songs
It’s not a great time for country music on the radio.
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moreListen to the National Lampoon Radio Hour from 1973 featuring Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Harold Ramis, Christopher Guest and the National Lampoon Radio Players.
moreIt happens to the best of us.
moreIf you were going to depict a dystopian video-game-influenced society, you may not need to look to the future as “Ready Player One” does, but backward to the world depicted in the marketing of the retro source material.
moreJosh T. Pearson might have been trapped by his own mythology, and the animated “Straight to the Top” video is an appropriately exaggerated way to outrun that mythology.
moreWhen 40-foot-high walls of water rise up out the ocean, the guy clinging to a plank of epoxied foam is already the underdog. The story of Portuguese big-wave surfer João de Macedo ups the ante.
moreSure, the first time you heard “Get Free” you may have, even subconsciously, hummed “Creep” in your head.
morePatty Schemel has the dubious distinction of being kicked out of the band Hole for doing too many drugs. In her new memoir, she tells how she got there and back.
moreFrom gold-plated jiggers to argon-gas belching wine preservers, most gift options range from the superfluous to the preposterous. Let us help you.
moreSongwriters choose their covers carefully. It’s a chance to show off influences or introduce a new audience to an old favorite. Sometimes maybe there’s…
moreNothing lasts forever—even “Forever Blue.” I’m talking, of course, about the 1995 Chris Isaak monograph of melodramatic melancholia.
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