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Springsteen: Promises Made, Promises Broken
Bruce Springsteen, with whom I am more than a little obsessed, has a new/old album out called The Promise. It was recorded between 1976 and 1978, but released only a few weeks ago, a thirty two-year gap that is best explained by broken promises. Tied up in a protracted contract dispute and fractious litigation over the ownership of his music, Springsteen was legally thwarted from releasing his own recordings. So during the three years following his breakthrough album Born to Run, he recorded a few dozen new tunes, sat on the master tapes, doled his songs out to others....
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Portrait of the Artist as Screw-up
In the classic coming-of-age novel, a callow youth ventures from his provincial town into the wider world, survives a series of adventures and misadventures, and emerges as a chastened but wiser young adult. Leave it to a New Jersey punk to settle for two out of three. The name of the New Jersey punk is Patrick Stickles, and he’s the lead singer and songwriter for a motley assembly of musicians called Titus Andronicus. The band name should tell you everything you need to know....
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Kiss Me
Sixpence None the Richer is my favorite band. I used to be embarrassed to say this, particularly in 1999, when their bouncy pop song “Kiss Me” became a ubiquitous, worldwide radio hit. I knew, and know, that the band was more than this one song, but "Kiss Me" on the radio, in 1999, was the moment when Sixpence None the Richer ceased to be a band and started to be an....
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Hear No Evil
A few months ago, I got a message from Hannah Notess (you may know her as a recent Milton Fellow and contributor to Image) alerting me to the impending release of a book she thought I might be interested in. And indeed, at almost any other point in my life, I would have been looking forward to reading Matthew Paul Turner's memoir Hear No Evil with great....
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What Am I Supposed to Do About it Now?
Jennifer Knapp played a show in my hometown last week. I have been sitting in front of the computer for about two hours because I’m not sure what I should write about that. I keep assuming that I ought to say something about Knapp, since the story unfolding around her during the past few weeks (her disappearance from Christian music, her sudden return, her coming out as....
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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