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Music Is Your Superpower
Alison Mosshart on skate park mixtapes, music's secret world, and falling in love with Captain Beefheart.
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Can a Burger Taste Like Heavy Metal?
My quest to find out if the ass-kicking essence of Black Sabbath, Queensrÿche, and other metal gods be captured in a beef patty.
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Talking about Dead Friends with Ethan Hawke
Why grieve alone when you can grieve with the star of "Reality Bites"?
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Mama's Got a Squeezebox
Why aren't rock hoohaws given the same reverence as dongs?
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What Merle Haggard Learned from the Train Hobos
The late country legend on surviving prison, quitting cannabis, and popping pills with Johnny Cash
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Talking about Dead Friends with Ethan Hawke
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My Interview With an ACTUAL Friend of the Devil
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Grief Is the Wolf at Your Door
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How to Listen Like Norman Lear
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An Open Letter to Amy and Brian about Their Lost Lionel Richie Record
A love story told on vinyl graffiti.
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The World Is Doomed, Let's Play Ball!
Americans are more pessimistic about their futures than ever. Can baseball save us from the downward spiral?
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Would You Let This Man Give You a Tracheotomy?
The late Harold Ramis reflects on being the hero, saving the girl, and the futility of satire.
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St. Patrick's Day Is for Day Drinking and Crying About Our Dads
A story about an old college friend, a few dozen beers, and the memories we can't let fade away.
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Marisa Dabice Stole Karen O's Microphone (And She'd Do It Again)
The Mannequin Pussy frontwoman talks about teenage cancer, her Napster sins, and why hidden tracks are like sex.
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Melancholy is the Happiness of Being Sad
Why it's okay not to feel okay
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What the Hell is a Spitz Mix?
It’s like an old-fashioned mixtape, but with words… and no music… and it’s on the internet and not a cassette tape… so really, not like a mixtape at…
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Never Listen to a Record in the Ghetto While Chewing Gum
The Earth, Wind, & Fire co-founder recounts an era when Spotify was on the street and a scratched record could tear a family apart
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How to Attract Women Like a Guitar Player (Without Playing the Guitar)
I talked to evolutionary psychologists and sex experts to find the secrets to Dave Grohl's appeal. It went about as well as you'd imagine.
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Spitz Mix
Spitz Mix
Like an old-school mixtape, but with words.
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