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Real Life Rock Top 10: February 2020
LARB presents the February installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Music
"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie
The Last Cowboy Song
Listening to Marty Robbins’s classic 1959 album “Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs.”
Real Life Rock Top 10: January 2020
LARB presents the January installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Coincidences, Chance, and Champignons
Perwana Nazif reads across the works and correspondences of John Cage and Merce Cunningham.
The Earth Died Screaming
What Tom Waits has to teach us about the coming global catastrophe.
Cold War Propagandist: Nicolas Nabokov, JFK, and the Shostakovich Wars
Joseph Horowitz on Nicolas Nabokov, classical music, and the Cold War.
All Kinds of Exile: On Liz Phair’s “Horror Stories”
A rocker from the 1990s looks back with regret and resolve.
Real Life Rock Top 10: December 2019
LARB presents the December installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
All the Poets (Musicians on Writing): Robert Forster
In the last installment of the "All the Poets" series, Scott Timberg talks to musician Robert Forster about the writers who inspire him.
Remembering Scott Timberg
Los Angeles lost a beloved local writer and his friends remember him.
Bending Toward Justice: A Conversation with Simon Tam
David Breithaupt interviews musician and activist Simon Tam.
How to Market Classical Music: A Conversation with Aubrey Bergauer
Theodore Gioia speaks to Aubrey Bergauer, the former executive director of the California Symphony, about programming a more diverse repertoire.
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