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Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Destroy All Monsters"

Scenes from a local music venue.

Jeff Jackson Guernica Oct 2018 10min Permalink

Arts Music

The Curse of the Ramones

How a group of Queens high schoolers changed music forever while barely managing to remain on speaking terms.

Mikal Gilmore Rolling Stone May 2016 30min Permalink

Arts Crime Music

To Live and Die in America

The murder of an Iranian band in Brooklyn by one of their own.

Previously: Nancy Jo Sales on the Longform Podcast.

Nancy Jo Sales Vanity Fair Mar 2014 25min Permalink

Arts Music

Our Band Could Be Your Band

How the Brooklynization of culture killed regional music scenes.

Justin Moyer Washington City Paper Sep 2012 10min Permalink

Arts Music

The Winners History of Rock and Roll

As mainstream rock declines and disappears from the radio, an examination of seven bands who were amongst the biggest of their respective eras.

  1. Part 1: Led Zeppelin

  2. Part 2: Kiss

  3. Part 3: Bon Jovi

  4. Part 4: Aerosmith

  5. Part 5: Metallica

  6. Part 6: Linkin Park

  7. Part 7: The Black Keys

Steven Hyden Grantland Feb 2013 1h45min Permalink

Arts Music

This Is It: Ten Years of the Strokes

An oral history of the Strokes.

Jonathan Garrett Pitchfork Mar 2011 20min Permalink