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Punk icon Ian MacKaye on why we should question the official history of rock music
“Punk is not a sound for me. It’s not a style of music. It’s not a look. It’s not even an attitude. For me...
How to survive a natural disaster (and recover when it’s over)
“Social capital is as important as formal training when it comes to disaster response. We see in every event people who have never had...
Wesley Morris on podcast-fame, sports, and performing blackness in America
“There’s nothing that will stop white people from trying to do some black shit. It’s fundamentally baked into every aspect of American popular culture....
Satanic backward masking changed 1980s rock (but not in the way you think)
“There are the actual facts of what was happening in popular culture in the 1980s — and then there was this tantalizing notion that...
Celebrating the best places to live (and the quest for home) in America
“We all have different priorities in life, and there is a place for each of us where we can live according to what those...
On American Highways II: A brief history of the Negro Motorist Green Book
“The traditional black experience is not the traditional white experience, so until we recognize that I don’t think it’s going change. But I think...