Archives
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BEATLES
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2022.11.04. Seven Doors on One Side, Seven on the Other: The Revolver Box (Critics at Large)
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2022.10.28. Devin McKinney, Get Back, and the Beatles in Context (The Riley Rock Report)
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2017.12.25. Who'll Remember the Buns, Podgy? The Beatles' Christmas Records (Critics at Large)
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2017.06.02. To Have and to Hold: The Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 50th Anniversary Edition (Critics at Large)
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2017.05. It Was 50 Years Ago Today: The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper (You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading @ Musselman Library)
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2016.11.14. What John Lennon Thinks of Donald Trump (Hey Dullblog)
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2016.09.24. The Wrong Kind of Easy: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (Critics at Large)
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2015.11.21. The Beatles on Video: What They Are, What They Are Not (Critics at Large)
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2015.01.20. Fab Foto Fakes: Photoshopping Beatles History (Hey Dullblog)
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2014.02.21. I’m So Tired: Responsive Notes on the Phenomenon of Beatle Fatigue (Hey Dullblog)
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2014.01.31. Beyond the Ordinary: From Mop Tops to Hippie Chic (CBS News)
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2014.01.01. George Harrison: Early Takes – Volume 1 (Hey Dullblog)
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2013.11.27. Cries and Whispers, Crashes and Flutters: 10 Favorite Beatles Musical Micro-Moments (Hey Dullblog)
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2013.10.30. Literary Approaches to the Beatles; or, The Difference between a Book and a Record (Hey Dullblog)
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2013.07.22. John McMillian, Beatles vs. Stones (Hey Dullblog)
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2013.07.08. Beatles, Stones, and Serial Killers (Hey Dullblog)
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2013.03.19. Fool’s Goldman: Reliving The Lives of John Lennon (Hey Dullblog)
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2012.07.31. RAM (Paul McCartney Archive Collection) (Hey Dullblog)
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2012.03.31. As I Go Round and Round in Circles (Hey Dullblog)
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2012.03.03. Nick Churchill, Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Beatles in Bournemouth (Hey Dullblog)
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2009.09.14. Paperback Trail; or, The Hunt for Mark Shipper (Hey Dullblog)
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2008.04.04. John, Paul, George, Ringo – and George? (Hey Dullblog)
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2008.02.16. Dave Marsh, The Beatles’ Second Album (Hey Dullblog)
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2004.03.03. Pop Lives: The Grey Album (The American Prospect)
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2003.12.19. In the Pocket: Musical Conversations with Andrea Lewis (KPFA, Pacifica Foundation Radio)
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2003.10.27. Focus: An Interview by David Inge (WILL, Illinois Public Media)
BLOGS
BOOKS & AUTHORS
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2022.12.22. Greil Marcus, Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs (Critics at Large)
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2022.11.21. Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song (Critics at Large)
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2021.07.19. Vladimir Nabokov, The Original of Laura (HiLobrow)
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2020.04. William Goldman, The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway (You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading @ Musselman Library)
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2020.04. Edmund Wilson, Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York (You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading @ Musselman Library)
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2018.09.13. M*A*S*H: Novel into FIlm into Sitcom, with Notes on the Long Run (Critics at Large)
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2018.07.28. No Reason: The Leopold and Loeb Files (Critics at Large)
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2018.06.23. The Women Who Write: Michelle Dean's Sharp (Critics at Large)
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2018.04.20. Me in Particular: The Reappearance of Oscar Z. Acosta (Critics at Large)
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2018.03.20. Unrelated Weirdnesses: Ryan H. Walsh's Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 (Critics at Large)
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2017.12.13. The Poisoned Well: Joe Hagan's Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine (Critics at Large)
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2017.09.27. Loyalty, Mastery, Mystery: Nicholas Jennings's Lightfoot (Critics at Large)
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2017.09.16. Watching and Worrying: David Thomson's Television: A Biography (Critics at Large)
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2017.09.08. The Agony and the Artistry: Mary V. Dearborn's Ernest Hemingway (Critics at Large)
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2017.05. E.M. Forster, The Life to Come and Other Stories (You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading @ Musselman Library)
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2017.05. Robertson Davies, The Deptford Trilogy (You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading @ Musselman Library)
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2017.03.09. Obscure and Beautiful Facts: Paul La Farge's The Night Ocean (Critics at Large)
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2016.11.18. A Strange and Distasteful Project: The Voyeur's Motel (Critics at Large)
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2016.10.08. Things Went Down: Joel Selvin’s Altamont (Critics at Large)
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2016.05. Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading @ Musselman Library)
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2015.08.04. Evidence and Memory: Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (Critics at Large)
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2015.05. Thomas Farber, Tales for the Son of My Unborn Child: Berkeley, 1966-69 (You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading @ Musselman Library)
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2015.02.28. Notes on the Absolute Unity of Robert Christgau (Critics at Large)
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2014.11.13. William Bradford Huie: The Accursed American (Critics at Large)
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2014.07.03. Robert Graysmith, Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America’s Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed (Goodreads)
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2014.07.02. William Arnold, Frances Farmer: Shadowland (Goodreads)
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2014.05. Philip Roth, I Married a Communist (You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading @ Musselman Library)
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2014.05.30. To Know an Author: The Salinger Perplex (Critics at Large)
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2014.01.04. The Damned Hurt: Albert Maltz’s The Journey of Simon McKeever (Critics at Large)
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2013.05. Kingsley Amis, The Green Man (You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading @ Musselman Library)
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2013.05. Erroll Morris, A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald (You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading @ Musselman Library)
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2013.04.14. The Biggest Secret: Jake Arnott’s The House of Rumour (Critics at Large)
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2009.06.19. Elijah Wald, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll (Bookforum)
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2007.12.18. Edmund Wilson: Reading Beyond the Lines (The Guardian)
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2007.11.05. Charles Schulz: The Benevolent God of the Funny Papers (The Guardian)
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2006.09.08. Greil Marcus: The Dream and the Curse (The American Prospect)
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2006.07.13. Eat the Document: Michael Gray's The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia (The Village Voice)
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2006.01.17. Harry Stephen Keeler: The Voltaic Yoo-Hoo Acid Test (The Village Voice)
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2005.04.17. Greil's World: Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads (Boston Globe)
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2004.10.29. The Great Crank: Bob Dylan's Chronicles, Volume One (The American Prospect)
CONFERENCE PAPERS
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2019.04.11. Between Light and Nowhere: Space and Spectrality in Certain Pop Records
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2018.08.11. Weeps Happiness: The Dysfunctional Drama of the White Album
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2013.04.20. Which Beatles Album Is Actually Their Best? My Side of a Debate with Tom Kipp
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2011.02.26. Yer Gonna Get it on Yer Face: The Dark Warning and Downward Spiral of LA Punk
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2007.03.26. Hotter Than a Crotch: Bob Dylan at the Borderline of Sleaze
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2006.04.29. Black Girl in a White Boy's Body
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2004.04.17. Cruising a Road to Nowhere: Magic and Mysteries of the Pop Moment
FILM
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2020.10.22. Unhappy Birthday: The Boys in the Band (Critics at Large)
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2020.09.25. Balls: Town Bloody Hall (Critics at Large)
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2020.05.20. Idaho Transfer (HiLobrow)
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2019.08.07. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (HiLobrow)
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2018.06.30. Panic (Critics at Large)
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2018.05.08. Stormy Monday (Critics at Large)
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2017.09.01. Bad Timing (Critics at Large)
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2017.08.06. Seconds (HiLobrow)
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2017.05.12. Looking Back: The Sergeant (Critics at Large)
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2017.03.28. The World of Henry Orient (Critics at Large)
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2016.06.04. Garage Freak: All the President's Men at 40 (Critics at Large)
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2016.05. The Seventh Continent (You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading @ Musselman Library)
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2015.11.04. Something In the Way It Moves: The Restored Manos: The Hands of Fate (Critics at Large)
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2015.10.28. Failed Experiments: Experimenter and The Stanford Prison Experiment (Critics at Large)
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2013.02.15. Hearing History: Peter Whitehead’s Charlie is My Darling (Critics at Large)
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2013.01.13. Mailer’s Stage: The Criterion Collection of Norman Mailer’s Films (Critics at Large)
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2007.12.30. Do Androids Hang Virtual Stockings? or, A Rick Deckard Christmas Special: The Blade Runner Ultimate Collector's Edition (Disambiguation)
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2007.11.18. Bob Dylan #12 & 35 (and 47, and 66…): I'm Not There (The Guardian)
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2005.09.23. Series of Clichés: No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (The American Prospect)
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2001-02 Winter. Lester Friedman, ed., Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (Film Quarterly)
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2000-01 Winter. Neal King, Heroes in Hard Times (Film Quarterly)
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1993 Summer. Violence: The Strong and the Weak (Film Quarterly)
FONDA
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2013.05.17. The Hidden Henry Fonda: An Interview by Anthony Miller (Los Angeles Magazine)
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2012-13 Winter. Ghost World: An Interview by Dylan Hicks (Rain Taxi Review of Books)
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2012.12.28. American Actor: An Interview by Kevin Courrier (Critics at Large)
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2012.10.10. Presentation: On Henry Fonda (Westport Public Library)
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2012.10.05. The Man Who Saw a Ghost: An Interview by Joshua Glenn (Boston Globe “Brainiac” blog)
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2008 March-April. The Right Man (The Believer)
MISCELLANY
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2017.12.05. Out of the Past: Nothing Personal at the Pace Gallery (Critics at Large)
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2017.07.05. The 1975 Boston Red Sox (HiLobrow)
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2016.04.15. Conducting the Interview (PDF) (Musselman Library)
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2012-present. Finding Aids & Other Librariana (Gettysburg College)
MUSIC
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2020.08.05. Romeo Void, "Never Say Never" (HiLobrow)
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2018.05.12. Everything's Cheaper Than It Looks: Neil Young's ROXY: Tonight's the Night Live (Critics at Large)
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2018.03.21. Belle and Sebastian, If You're Feeling Sinister (HiLobrow)
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2017.11.25. Solitary Woman: Listening to Sinéad O'Connor (Critics at Large)
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2017.11.21. Arthur Lee He Sees Everything Like This: Forever Changes at 50 (Critics at Large)
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2017.08.10. Like a Midnight Cowboy: Glen Campbell, 1936-2017 (Critics at Large)
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2017.05.27. Relentless Beauty: Dion's Kickin' Child (Critics at Large)
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2015 Spring/Summer. The Yardbirds and Granny Takes a Trip: Essential Psychedelia #44 and #21 (Black Clock)
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2015.06.20. Still Sticky After All These Years: The Special Edition Reissue of the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers (Critics at Large)
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2013.05.01. When the Mystique Evaporates: Bobby Whitlock (Critics at Large)
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2013.01.22. A Polite Roar: John Cale at BAM (Critics at Large)
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2007. Betty Harris: The Hit That Never Happened (The Oxford American)
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2006.10.04. Gimme That Old-Time Androgyny: Scissor Sisters and New York Dolls (City Pages)
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2006.08.16. Mad Love: Arthur Lee, 1945-2006 (The American Prospect)
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2006.06.16. World Party: Have You Heard the Word? (The American Prospect)
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2006.05.12. Look at Those Stupid Girls: Pink! and the YouTubers (The American Prospect)
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2006.04.16. God, This Guy’s Good: Matisyahu (The American Prospect)
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2006.03.03. Facing the Country Music: Van Morrison and Neil Young (The American Prospect)
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2005. Cruising a Road to Nowhere: Mechanics and Mysteries of the Pop Moment (Popular Music)
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2005.12.09. Preoccupied with 1985: a-ha, Cyndi Lauper, and Madonna (The American Prospect)
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2005.09.09. The Times We Never Had: The Rolling Stones (The American Prospect)
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2005.07.22. The Soul of the Nation: Mariah Carey and Common (The American Prospect)
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2005.06.03. Listening to the Monkey: Elvis Costello (The American Prospect)
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2005.05.06. More Devils, Less Dust: Bruce Springsteen (The American Prospect)
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2005.03.25. Playing the Game: 50 Cent and The Game (The American Prospect)
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2005.03.04. Outside Influences: The Shaggs and The New Creation (The American Prospect)
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2005.01.05. Pop Irony – Past, Present, and Future: Alex Chilton and Neko Case (The American Prospect)
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2004.10.25. Grin and Bear It: Brian Wilson's SMILE (The American Prospect)
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2004.09.14. Real Horror Show: Project: Deadman and Slipknot (The American Prospect)
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2004.07.21. Can’t Get Fooled Again: Pop Musicians and Politics (The American Prospect)
PHONE HORROR (HiLobrow series, 2014)
POP WITH A SHOTGUN (HiLobrow series, 2015)
RADIO SHOWS
SUPERSTAR
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2017.07.10. Jesusmania! An Interview by Gibson DelGuidice (Jesus Christ Superstar Zone)
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2016.11. Research Reflections: The Gettysburg Superstar (Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter)
TELEVISION
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2018.08.06. The Twilight Zone (HiLobrow)
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2016.04.01. Estranged: Schitt's Creek and Baskets (Critics at Large)
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2016.03.05. History as Mudpie: HBO's Vinyl (Critics at Large)
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2005.10.28. That’s Like Hypnotizing Chickens: Pop Music in Commercials (The American Prospect)
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2004.08.13. Deep in Dennis Potter’s Forest: Pennies from Heaven (The American Prospect)
WEIRD
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2018.10.31. The Ghosts of October (4): Whistle and I'll Come to You (Critics at Large)
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2018.10.24. The Ghosts of October (3): "The Hour After Westerly" (Critics at Large)
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2018.10.16. The Ghosts of October (2): Vanished! A Video Séance (Critics at Large)
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2018.10.02. The Ghosts of October (1): The Green Man (Critics at Large)
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2006.02.14. Black Dogs on Meon Hill (The Face at the Window)
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2006.01.08. Keep Hearing the Skies! (The Face at the Window)