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Alex Frank

BOOKS ARCHIVES

Talking to Danny Fields About the Ramones’ Gabba Gabba Heyday

‘The leather jacket and Levi’s and Converse was classic, and they knew that. The only thing they’d change was their T-shirt and the socks.’

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Best of Spring

Scotland’s Young Fathers Come Out Fighting

How three working-class lads from Edinburgh with nothing to lose made one of the year’s most exciting hip-hop albums

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Superorganism

Best of Spring

Band of Outsiders

How a gang of weirdos from England, Australia, South Korea, New Zealand, and Japan-via-Maine coalesced into a. . . Superorganism, and made one of the year’s best albums

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MUSIC ARCHIVES

As Soccer Mommy, Sophie Allison Sings Herself Clean

“It’s strong to admit, ‘Yes, I have issues. I’ve suffered too.’ ”

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FILM ARCHIVES

Why the Revolutionary Score for “Phantom Thread” Should Win the Oscar — And Change How We Think of Music in Movies

“The music doesn’t just tell us what the world of the movie sounded like. It fully embodies it.”

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MUSIC ARCHIVES

Ty Segall Is Here to Fight for the Right to Rock ’n’ Roll

“The whole point of this band is to be free”

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MUSIC ARCHIVES

SZA, Lorde, and the Pazz & Jop Rise of Songs of the Self

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FILM ARCHIVES

Timothée Chalamet’s New York State of Mind

"I grew up in Hell’s Kitchen, and I love the theater. That’s how I fell into movie acting."

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MUSIC ARCHIVES

Angel Olsen Isn’t Trying to Make You Cry. Really.

“I just want to write something that’s honest and that people can really feel”

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MUSIC ARCHIVES

“Protest Songs Spell Out Problems. Activist Songs Spell Out Solutions.”

And for more than half a century, Buffy Sainte-Marie has been looking for solutions

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