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Berkeley at 100 | ARTICLE

Berkeley celebrated its one hundredth anniversary as an independent city the week of April 1st, and typically, the only one of the many centennial events to receive any coverage in the media was the most obvious: a...
February 28, 2013 2:12 PM ET
Bob Dylan Times Six: An Interview with 'I'm Not There' Director Todd Haynes | ARTICLE

I'm Not There, which opens November 1st in New York and Los Angeles, is Todd Haynes' already-talked-about, argued-about, cursed and celebrated movie: a film...
November 29, 2007 12:00 PM ET
People of the Year: Bob Dylan | ARTICLE

Last November 2nd, on election night, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Bob Dylan played "Masters of War," his 1963 protest song against arms merchants. It...
December 30, 2004 3:20 PM ET
Manifesto | ALBUM REVIEW

Roxy Music has not gone disco. Roxy Music has not particularly gone anywhere else either. Manifesto is the band's first release since it broke up after the obligatory lousy live LP in 1976. Though far more interesting than most...
October 18, 2002 12:00 AM ET
Comes A Time | ALBUM REVIEW

New Musical Express recently carried an item noting that Neil Young has been awarded a gold record solely for the number of test pressings he'd racked up for Comes a Time — well, you never know. As...
January 1, 2002 12:00 AM ET
Dusty In Memphis | ALBUM REVIEW

These days you might hear Dusty Springfield's 1964 "I Only Want to Be With You" as the theme song for Arliss, Robert Wuhl's HBO sports-agent comedy. But in 1969 she plowed a furrow you can still find:...
January 4, 1999 12:00 AM ET
Mermaid Avenue | ALBUM REVIEW

Named for a Coney Island street where Woody Guthrie lived in the late Forties and early Fifties, Mermaid Avenue is a collection of recently discovered Guthrie lyrics now set to music for the first time. It's also...
June 1, 1998 12:00 AM ET
Bob Dylan: He Has Raised the Stakes of Life All Around Himself | ARTICLE

On Oct. 6 in New York, Bob Dylan – following architect Frank Gehry, film director Ingmar Bergman and opera director and designer Robert Wilson – received the $200,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for achievement in the arts,...
December 25, 1997 12:00 PM ET
Little Criminals | ALBUM REVIEW

Herewith, two rock & roll singers distinguished by their almost total disregard for the music and marketing strategies of their contemporaries. One is as established as such a performer can be and, it seems, is settling into...
June 17, 1997 12:00 AM ET
Elvis Costello: The Rolling Stone Interview | ARTICLE

Below is an excerpt of an article that originally appeared in RS 377 from September 2, 1982. This issue and the rest of the Rolling Stone archives are available via Rolling Stone Plus, Rolling Stone's premium...
September 2, 1982 12:00 AM ET
Pete Townshend on 'Empty Glass,' Cincinnati, And the Who's Future | ARTICLE

The interview that follows took place on April 17th, just a few days into the Who's eighteen-date spring tour of the United States...
June 26, 1980 2:30 PM ET
The Kids Are Alright | ALBUM REVIEW

How could the Who have released an album called The Kids Are Alright without including the original version of the song of the...
August 23, 1979 12:00 AM ET
Lodger | ALBUM REVIEW

David Bowie's albums are non events, though given the aura he insists on, they're halfheartedly presented as such: time and again, ideas are run up the flagpole, but try and find the flagpole. What's Bowie's point of...
August 9, 1979 12:00 AM ET
Duets | ALBUM REVIEW

Nowadays, Jerry Lee Lewis is a respected country and western star, instant success following each release. Actually, he's always been country. But he hasn't always been such a well respected man. These two albums of re-releases return us...
May 17, 1979 12:00 AM ET
Squeezing Out Sparks | ALBUM REVIEW

Graham Parker's first two albums remain among the very finest of the decade: lyrical, intense, emotionally specific; a rough and untrained voice somehow merging perfectly with the Anglicized Blonde on Blonde /Stax-Volt classicism of the band. It...
May 17, 1979 12:00 AM ET
Give 'Em Enough Rope | ALBUM REVIEW

The Clash rain fire and brimstone — with a laugh. Give' Em Enough Rope, their second album (The Clash, released in the U.K. in 1977, remains unissued here, as do several remarkable singles that appear on neither...
January 25, 1979 12:00 AM ET
Keith Moon: The Different Drummer | ARTICLE

Keith Moon was not the first rock & roll drummer to be celebrated by large numbers of people: thanks to his personality and his...
October 19, 1978 12:25 PM ET
Who Are You | ALBUM REVIEW

This is by no means a great record, but despite the doubt, guilt, worry and self-laceration in almost every song, it's a strangely confident...
October 19, 1978 12:00 AM ET
Street Legal | ALBUM REVIEW

It saddens me that I can't find it in my heart to agree with my colleague Dave Marsh that Bob Dylan's new record...
August 24, 1978 12:00 AM ET
The Return Of The Wanderer | ALBUM REVIEW

Dion's new album opens with a house-rocking version of Tom Waits' "Heart of Saturday Night," and Dion rings the bell twelve times: every note hits home. Fittingly, the title of this record implies something more than just...
July 12, 1978 12:00 AM ET