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Greil Marcus

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    Dylan Hicks unveils "West Texas Winds," talks upcoming novel

    ​What a pleasant surprise it was to see this brand new song and video from Minneapolis singer/songwriter Dylan Hicks last week. For one thing it's been far too long to have heard anything new from the "Governor of Fun." He only recently showed up with new material in one of Terry Eason "Song-A-Day ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Greil Marcus talks Bob Dylan at Magers and Quinn

    Photo by Thierry Arditti​When it was time for Greil Marcus to start his reading last night at Magers and Quinn, he suddenly realized that his emcee had gone missing--off, he later suggested, to use the bathroom. So the 65-year old author, perhaps the most famous of all living rock critics, walked ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Surfer Blood's "Twin Peaks": demand it live

    ​Fess-up time: almost everything I know about Twin Peaks -- David Lynch's surrealist, televised take on fear, loathing, and murder in a fictional Washington state community -- I learned from Greil Marcus's excellent societal survey course The Shape of Things to Come. Here's what I do know for sure ... More >>

  • Music

    April 30, 2008

    How Atmosphere Went Electro

    Why Lemons is like Tom Waits for Prince Fans

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2008

    Breakfast of Champions 4/2: Electronic bread, digital circuses

    Why Lemons is like Tom Waits for Prince Fans

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2008

    Breakfast of Champions 4/1: introducing Joystick Division

    Why Lemons is like Tom Waits for Prince Fans

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2008

    No Faking: Peter S. Scholtes reviews the Mekons with Greil Marcus

    Why Lemons is like Tom Waits for Prince Fans

  • Music

    March 26, 2008

    Critics' Picks: The Mekons and more

    Why Lemons is like Tom Waits for Prince Fans

  • Calendar

    March 19, 2008

    The Current Fakebook: Greil Marcus and the Mekons

    Why Lemons is like Tom Waits for Prince Fans

  • Calendar

    March 19, 2008

    Jon Langford and Rico Bell

    Why Lemons is like Tom Waits for Prince Fans

  • Music

    November 28, 2007

    Turn On the Basement Lights

    Rock writer/Dylan freak Sid Griffin attempts to crack one of music's great mysteries

  • Movies

    August 22, 2007

    Younger Than That Now

    Only Eight Years Old, Sound Unseen Shrinks for ’07, But Still Puts on the Ritz

  • Music

    June 6, 2007

    Riot Birds

    England's Pipettes revisit the girl-group sounds of the '60s

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2007

    The Beatles: There's No Time When I'm Alone mixtape

    England's Pipettes revisit the girl-group sounds of the '60s

  • Music

    September 13, 2006

    Ramblin' Man

    Anti-techie Bob Dylan makes a great chill-out album

  • News

    July 19, 2006

    Country Grammar

    With two new books out this fall and a massive linguistic project ahead, David Treuer is redefining what it means to be a native speaker

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2006

    7/12 Morning Communiqué

    With two new books out this fall and a massive linguistic project ahead, David Treuer is redefining what it means to be a native speaker

  • Music

    July 12, 2006

    A Beautiful Mind

    Minnesota-born Paul Nelson was a '60s folk revival pioneer and a founding father of rock writing

  • News

    December 28, 2005

    Artists of the Year

    Hurricanes, war, avian flu, locust plagues, that annoying song you couldn't get out of your head. It wasn't the greatest of all possible years. Nor was it halfway decent. But to prove that it wasn't all bad, we asked 29 writers to rave about the ar

  • Movies

    June 22, 2005

    That Was Now This Is Then

    Formerly Mod Gregg Araki wears someone else's '70s 'Skin'

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2005

    Weekend to-do

    Formerly Mod Gregg Araki wears someone else's '70s 'Skin'

  • News

    December 29, 2004

    Artists of the Year

    12 Rods, Jon Stewart, Howard Stern, Quentin Tarantino, Garrison Keillor, MF Doom, Lawrence Lessig, Randi Rhodes...

  • Music

    November 10, 2004

    Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Truth?

    Earnest Brits bring punk out of the past and into the Futureheads

  • News

    November 3, 2004

    Obituaries

    Former President George W. Bush Dead at 72

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2004

    It's just the beat of time, the beat that must go on

    Former President George W. Bush Dead at 72

  • Books

    August 27, 2003

    I Like Trash

    Chuck Klosterman wallows joyfully in cultural crap, while in the afterlife, Lester Bangs rises above it

  • Music

    August 20, 2003

    Desert of the Surreal

    Between pop culture combat and a dance floor nuclear war, Metric draw their line in the sand

  • Music

    June 25, 2003

    Legends of the Fall

    Mark E. Smith: Misogynist? Alcoholic? Anti-hero of an indie rock era?

  • News

    January 1, 2003

    Artists of the Year

    Mark E. Smith: Misogynist? Alcoholic? Anti-hero of an indie rock era?

  • Books

    December 4, 2002

    Bigger Than Ebert

    Is David Thomson the world's greatest film critic?

  • Arts

    May 22, 2002

    Invisible Cities

    An open zine collects the manifestoes of street poets, single dads, and itinerant academicians

  • Music

    May 15, 2002

    Pretty Girls Make Graves: Good Health

    An open zine collects the manifestoes of street poets, single dads, and itinerant academicians

  • Arts

    March 6, 2002

    Public Dick

    An open zine collects the manifestoes of street poets, single dads, and itinerant academicians

  • Arts

    January 16, 2002

    Potty Mouth

    An open zine collects the manifestoes of street poets, single dads, and itinerant academicians

  • News

    December 26, 2001

    Artists of the Year

    An open zine collects the manifestoes of street poets, single dads, and itinerant academicians

  • Music

    September 19, 2001

    Various Artists: False Object Sensor

    An open zine collects the manifestoes of street poets, single dads, and itinerant academicians

  • Music

    February 21, 2001

    Swiss Miss

    Long out of print, the yelps of the Swiss band LiliPUT reveal a hidden history of women in punk

  • Music

    April 12, 2000

    Feline Leukemia

    Long out of print, the yelps of the Swiss band LiliPUT reveal a hidden history of women in punk

  • Music

    November 3, 1999

    Sound Check

    Long out of print, the yelps of the Swiss band LiliPUT reveal a hidden history of women in punk

  • News

    December 30, 1998

    Artists of the Year

    Long out of print, the yelps of the Swiss band LiliPUT reveal a hidden history of women in punk

  • Books

    August 26, 1998

    Lord of the Dance

    Rock crit Simon Reynolds writes the first comprehensive account of the rave revolution

  • News

    December 31, 1997

    Artists Of The Year

    We list the best of the best of 1997.

  • Feature

    September 10, 1997

    Poster Punks

    We list the best of the best of 1997.

  • Arts

    March 5, 1997

    The Importance of Being Earnest

    U2 goes forward and backward with Pop.

  • News

    December 25, 1996

    Artists Of The Year

    U2 goes forward and backward with Pop.

  • Arts

    November 13, 1996

    Leaving Dada

    As the Walker's retrospective shows, Hannah Höch's art grew far beyond the movement that birthed her.

  • Feature

    November 6, 1996

    The Anti-Elvis

    Notes from the morning before the morning after.

  • Feature

    May 1, 1996

    Culture To Go

    Notes from the morning before the morning after.

  • Arts

    January 24, 1996

    Scat Songs

    Notes from the morning before the morning after.

  • News

    December 27, 1995

    Artists of the Year

    Makers who mattered in 1995

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