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You Don't Need to Know the Words
Italian versions of Neil Diamond songs are why I write about music at all
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The Time Warp, With Instructions—in French
Fifty years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the difference between chaos you fall into and chaos you’re taught how to perform
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They Don’t Live, They Just Wait
Asturias, after coal, and the sound of exhaustion
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Before Punk Had a Name, the Band Was Already There
From Lima to São Paulo, South American rock forces a rethink of who gets to define music history
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The Songs That Never Went Away & Never Should Have Been Made
Marujita Díaz, old songs, and what gets carried forward without question
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Music That Defined an Era: Quinqui Rumba and the Sound of 1970s Spain
A playlist from 1970s Spain with stories from the edges before they were softened, exported, and repackaged
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Paris, 1980. Nobody Knew What This Was. They Were Devo.
They expected chanson. They got Devo.
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Oingo Boingo and the Art of Precise Weirdness
How “Private Life” turned paranoia, xylophones, and horn stabs into one of the strangest dance songs of 1982.
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The Night Bowie Turned Network Television Strange
Bowie, Klaus Nomi, and the Night SNL Went Fully Alien
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The Ghetto Brothers and the Sound of a Bronx That Refused to Collapse
How a gang from the South Bronx helped create the conditions for hip-hop.
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Os Mutantes and the Beautiful Chaos of Tropicália
Os Mutantes, Jorge Ben, and the Beautiful Chaos of Tropicália
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The Psychedelic Universe of Gong
Cosmic gnomes, pirate radio from deep space, and the strangest psychedelic band of the 1970s.