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Gimme Shelter Goes Through the Past Darkly | ARTICLE

A year ago this month, the riots at the third Woodstock festival triggered endless, hand-wringing speculation about the moral condition of the nation's youth. As far as the media was concerned, it was the rock & roll...
August 23, 2000 12:00 AM ET
Eva Jagger, 1913-2000 | ARTICLE

On May 26th, family and friends gathered at a service for Eva Jagger, the mother of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger. She had died...
July 6, 2000 12:00 PM ET
Unlike Eminem and Cat, Springsteen Shows Courage Under Fire | ARTICLE

Cat Stevens, Eminem and Bruce Springsteen have almost nothing in common, obviously. But in recent weeks, controversies have erupted centering on statements these artists have made, either in their music or in interviews, about politically charged issues....
June 16, 2000 12:00 AM ET
The Rolling Stone Hall of Fame: Bob Dylan's 'John Wesley Harding' | ARTICLE

"Nothing is revealed": That summary line from "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" could stand as the epigraph for John Wesley...
March 30, 2000 3:40 PM ET
Pink Moon | ALBUM REVIEW

Pink Moon is folk icon Nick Drake's third and last full album — and at less than thirty minutes, it can seem as starkly foreshortened as the singer's life, which ended in 1974 when he was twenty-six....
February 17, 2000 12:00 AM ET
The Ball Drops on the Music Industry | ARTICLE

So you're already sick of millennial madness? Too bad -- the next three months are going to be hell for you. You can trash your TV, buy your own generator, stuff your money into your mattress and stockpile food, but...
October 5, 1999 12:00 AM ET
Bruce Springsteen and the Legendary E Street Band Reunite | ARTICLE

You couldn't have asked for a more emotional setup. Over 300,000 tickets had been sold for the first fifteen American dates of Bruce...
September 2, 1999 2:20 PM ET
Mock Tudor | ALBUM REVIEW

No review of a Richard Thompson album is complete without a plea for a larger audience to discover his rare virtues. But it's probably time to let that vain hope go. In the course of more than...
September 2, 1999 12:00 AM ET
Be Careful What You Read Into Woodstock '99 | ARTICLE

"So why be so sure that that the Woodstock lightning that struck in Bethel and in Saugerties won't electrify Rome this time around?" Those were the hopeful words that closed my column last month about the bright prospect of the...
August 6, 1999 12:00 AM ET
Springsteen Tour Opener: Review by Anthony DeCurtis | ARTICLE

"Someday these childish dreams must end / To become a man and grow up and dream again," screamed Bruce Springsteen and guitarist Steve Van Zandt into the same microphone, the tendons in their necks stretched to bursting, their mouths a...
July 16, 1999 12:00 AM ET
Bad Love | ALBUM REVIEW

Bad Love is the first album of new songs both written and sung by Randy Newman in more than a decade, and, at fifty-five, this satiric master is still in fine form. Much better, in fact, than...
July 8, 1999 12:00 AM ET
Woodstock '99 Boasts a Bundle of Contradictions | ARTICLE

Don't trust anyone over thirty -- that was the mantra of the Sixties counterculture. That imperative, however, has taken on a new irony as plans proceed for Woodstock '99, the thirtieth anniversary celebration of the original Woodstock Music and...
June 30, 1999 12:00 AM ET
The Rolling Stones: 'Out of Our Heads' Revisited | ARTICLE

Things Moved Fast Back in the day: The Rolling Stones' first four albums came out between May 1964 and July 1965, and all four are essential to an understanding of the origins of blues-based rock...
April 29, 1999 12:00 PM ET
Live at the Fillmore East | ALBUM REVIEW

This two-disc collection draws on four monumental sets that Jimi Hendrix performed with the Band of Gypsys (bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles) at New York's Fillmore East on December 31st, 1969, and January 1st,...
March 18, 1999 12:00 AM ET
Jimi Hendrix the Subject of New D.A. Pennebaker Film | ARTICLE

Few musicians have exerted as profound an impact as Jimi Hendrix, and a new hour-long documentary demonstrates how pervasive his influence has been....
February 18, 1999 12:00 PM ET
Roots | ALBUM REVIEW

Roots, which came out in 1971, found the great Curtis Mayfield momentarily catching his breath, collecting himself between peaks of achievement. He had already made his mark with the Impressions in the Sixties, blending the fervor of...
January 25, 1999 12:00 AM ET
Bruce Springsteen's Secret History | ARTICLE

When Bruce Springsteen enters a room, he fills it up - even when it's just a room in the guest house turned studio...
December 10, 1998 3:00 PM ET
Beck Talks 'Mutations,' Going Solo From Himself | ARTICLE

You'll have to excuse me, my brain's a little rusty right now," Beck says on the phone from Los Angeles. "We've been in...
November 26, 1998 12:05 PM ET
Anutha Zone | ALBUM REVIEW

Long before Mac Rebennack emerged as the king of good-times New Orleans grooves, he had crafted a far spookier persona. As Dr. John the Night Tripper on his 1968 debut album, Gris-Gris, he was an emissary from...
July 28, 1998 12:00 AM ET
Adam Yauch on His Spiritual Journey: 'I Don't Care If Somebody Makes Fun of Me' | ARTICLE

Along with his group, the Beastie Boys, Adam Yauch, 33, has grown up in public. Since their days of dodging the local authorities...
May 28, 1998 1:15 PM ET