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Bob Dylan’s Art Is Best Served Naked

By Trent Kelly / 23 May 2023

As Bob Dylan learned, only through baring of one’s soul does one show the way forward, providing both a glimpse into the other and perhaps the shape of things to come.

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Commodified Authenticity and Ethnic Resistance in Nahnatchka Khan’s ‘Always Be My Maybe’

By Katelyn Juerjens / 28 June 2019

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‘When I Get Home’, ‘Astroworld’, and the Problem with Place-Based Authenticity

By Matthew K. Carter / 28 March 2019

Lucky for you, philistine listener and reader, we critics are here to make your listening experience truly authentic by bringing you into the "back to their roots" covenant of artistic judgment.

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Reactionary Rockism: The Dangerous Obsession with “Authenticity” in Indie Rock

By Max McKenna / 13 August 2018

We should take seriously indie rock trends driven by nostalgia— the revival of white rock forms, the whitewashing of disco and yacht rock, and the rise of normcore—as what they are: conservative gestures flying under the radar in a climate of poptimist reappraisal.

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Bruce Springsteen, ‘The Ties That Bind’, the Working Class, and Authenticity

By Robert Loss / 4 February 2016

As we use the term today, authenticity allows no truth from art, only from artists. It visits art the way one visits a subway station or an airport: to get to somewhere else.