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‘The Prisoner’ Has Superbly Outlived Its Original Context
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‘The Prisoner’ Has Superbly Outlived Its Original Context

By
John A. Riley
/ 2 February 2018

Rogue filmmaker Alex Cox ties The Prisoner's island mentality and palpable "cupcake fascism" to current political events, including Brexit, in I Am Not a Number.

Richard Goldstein on the Front Lines With Janis Joplin, Andy Warhol, Abby Hoffman and More
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Richard Goldstein on the Front Lines With Janis Joplin, Andy Warhol, Abby Hoffman and More

By
Grace Lichtenstein
/ 22 May 2015
Richard Goldstein's journey is a closely observed, fervently lived “I was there” account of the music, the politics, the sex, the drugs, and the poetry in rock lyrics.
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Is Punk Rock Just Urban Folk Music? ‘Left of the Dial’

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John L. Murphy
/ 30 June 2013
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‘Psychedelia’ Is All You Can Imagine, and Then Some

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John L. Murphy
/ 6 February 2013
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Relentless DIY Dandelions’: ‘Beyond the Music: How Punks are Saving the World…’

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John L. Murphy
/ 18 November 2012
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Getting Loose by Sam Binkley

By
Vince Carducci
/ 26 June 2007
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Individualism Is Not Counterculture

By
Rob Horning
/ 2 February 2006

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