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Rabbit Season

Jenny Lewis emerges as a solo force to be reckoned with, and brings her hardscrabble past with her

Gone to See the River Man

Nick Drake has a skin too few

Bluesman's Blues

Paul Pena,who's played with everyone from Jerry Garcia to B.B. King, is coming out of the musical shadows, thanks to the award-winning documentary Genghis Blues. He's also blind, and sick, and entirely tired of living.

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Paul Pena,who's played with everyone from Jerry Garcia to B.B. King, is coming out of the musical shadows, thanks to the award-winning documentary Genghis Blues. He's also blind, and sick, and entirely tired of living.

Sound Ideas

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Riff Raff

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Letters

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Books

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

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Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Motorhead Plays One Note for an Hour at the Warfield

Richard HaickLemmy!​MotorheadClutchValient ThorrFebruary 2, 2011@ The WarfieldBetter than: People less inherently amusing than Lemmy Kilmister playing one note for an hour.Okay, fine, so it wasn't just one note. There were two or three others thrown in there sometimes. A few meager attempts to spi ... More >>

The Stoner's Guide to Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space

​Listen to this while high: Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized. Behind the buzz: This album is one of the great THC supplements of the 1990s. Why it seldom turns up on any of those Stoner Rock 101 guides you see on the Internet may be only partially charged off to ho ... More >>

Absolutely Kosher Founder Cory Brown Picks 10 Unsung Releases He (Especially) Loved

​[Editor's note: After hearing this week that Berkeley indie label Absolutely Kosher plans to stop releasing new music this fall, we talked to label founder and owner Cory Brown about what happened and wrote a too-long, very bummed-out piece about it. We also asked if Brown would be interested ... More >>

The Annotated Robert Christgau: A Public Service

Seriously, the b-side was called "I Killed Christgau With My Big Fucking Dick."​Robert Christgau has long been held as the dean of rock criticism and perhaps the discipline's greatest practitioner. He listens widely, with an open mind, and has over his 40 years in the business been bang-on righ ... More >>