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Music

Song of the Day

John Fea   |  July 28, 2022

Song of the Day

John Fea   |  July 27, 2022

Song of the Day

John Fea   |  July 26, 2022

Song of the Day

John Fea   |  July 25, 2022

Song of the Day

John Fea   |  July 24, 2022

Good morning!

John Fea   |  January 29, 2022

All the growth in the music market is coming from old songs

John Fea   |  January 26, 2022

Here is Ted Gioia at The Atlantic: Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market, according to the latest numbers from MRC Data, a music-analytics firm. Those who make a living from new music—especially that endangered species […]

Song of the Day

John Fea   |  January 21, 2022

Foo Fighters to Westboro Baptists: “You should be dancing!”

John Fea   |  August 6, 2021

The Westboro Baptist Church has a website. The URL is godhatesfags.com. The church is known for its pickets and protests against atheists, Jews, Muslims, homosexuals, and anyone who hangs around with atheists, Jews, Muslims, and homosexuals. Today some members of […]

Song of the Day

John Fea   |  June 2, 2021

A little 1970s prog rock today:

Songs of the Day

John Fea   |  May 29, 2021

RIP And for the slightly “younger generation“:

Bruce Springsteen awarded Woodie Guthrie Prize

John Fea   |  May 15, 2021

From the Woody Guthrie Center website: The Woody Guthrie Prize is given annually to an artist who best exemplifies Woody Guthrie’s spirit and work by speaking for the less fortunate through music, film, literature, dance, or other art forms and […]

Song of the Day

John Fea   |  April 16, 2021

“And a time to every purpose under heaven“:

Bruce Springsteen’s embrace of liberalism

John Fea   |  April 6, 2021

Yesterday we published Tony Norman’s piece on Renegades: Born in the U.S.A., the much acclaimed Obama-Springsteen podcast. Check it out here. Read Norman’s piece alongside Dennis M. Hogan’s essay at The Baffler. In “Runaway American Dreams,” Hogan traces Springsteen’s move […]

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