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    • ANALYSIS 2021
      Silent Cuomo Mired in Twin Scandals
      By Ross Barkan
    • News 2021
      What Larry Flynt’s Freedom Fighter Legacy Meant For LGBTQ Culture
      By Rachel Mason
    • News 2021
      Cuomo Delivers New Cannabis Proposals
      By Jimi Devine
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    • News 2021
      A Review and a Poem: Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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      Singer Naomi Shelton Made New Yorkers — and Everyone Else — Feel the Love
      By Matt Rogers
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      Does New York Need a New La Guardia?
      By Ross Barkan
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    • MUSIC 2021
      Ronna Reason Loves Blondie
      By Brett Callwood
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      Portals to Adventure in Time and Space
      By Michael Snyder
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      Andra Day Gives Us All of Lady Day in ‘The United States Vs. Billie Holiday’
      By Chad Byrnes
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    Band from Dylanland: Big Pink in Quake City
    “From the strength of their personal decency and dedication, the musicians summoned up an oceanic passion, a commitment to the true experience of their materials that short-circuited the hair on the back of one’s neck”
    by Grover Lewis
    Originally published May 1, 1969
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    Sinatra at 80: Practice Makes Posterity
    “Nobody who played jazz was considered able to walk in and do a studio call. They were convinced you couldn't read, or you wouldn't show up, or you'd fall down drunk”
    by Milt Bernhart as told to Gary Giddins
    Originally published June 20, 1995
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    Sinatra at 80: Frank Swings
    “Many jazz musicians don’t like singers, and some will go to great lengths to avoid play­ing for them. Not without rea­son. Frank Sinatra is a rare excep­tion.”
    by David Finck
    Originally published June 20, 1995
  • MUSIC ARCHIVES
    Sinatra at 80: The Greatest Singer of Them All
    by Steve Allen
    Originally published June 20, 1995
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    Is Springsteen Worth the Hype?
    “Even his weaknesses stem from too much talent. But the stamina of his personal vision is far preferable to the formulaic nowhere of the music business.”
    by Paul Nelson
    Originally published August 25, 1975
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    Cars & Swipes Forever
    At his best, singer Ric Ocasek bal­ances dehumanizing Anglo-European obsessions with loose­-goose American rock. And his songs are downright catchy.
    by Jon Pareles
    Originally published August 21, 1978
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    Outlaws as Oligarchs: Waylon and Willie Outsell ’Em All
    “A battle was fought and the good guys won, it’s as simple as that. The effects of the victory are many and glorious.”
    by Nick Tosches
    Originally published May 31, 1976
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    The Basement Tapes: Bob Dylan Goes Public
    “We don’t have to bow our heads in shame because this is the best album of 1975. It would have been the best album of 1967, too”
    by Robert Christgau
    Originally published August 4, 1975
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    Riffs: Be Grateful You’re Dead
    “No tricks, just music, hard, lyric, joyous — pure and together, dense and warm as a dark summer country night. There’s the Dead, and then there’s everybody else.”
    by Annie Fischer
    Originally published May 16, 1968
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    In the Sahara, Searching for the Rolling Stones
    "From Tangiers into the Rif Mountains to hear the piping and drumming and singing of the Master Musicians of Joujouka: 'The World’s Oldest Rock and Roll Band' ”
    by Craig Karpel
    Originally published August 23, 1972

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