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Bringing It All Back Home: 60 Years of Dylan's most genre-inspiring work
If Bob Dylan invents mainstream punk but continues to release influential work, will anyone remember he invented punk?

Ashley Musante
Mar 217 min read
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Kashmir: The Zeppelin Epic to End All Zeppelin Epics
Led Zeppelin and the art of the epic

Ashley Musante
Feb 278 min read
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40 Years of King of Rock
Run-DMC understood their legacy very early on, but why did no one else?

Ashley Musante
Jan 86 min read
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Stevie Nicks and the Story of Rhiannon
How Stevie Nicks wrote one of the most defiant pieces of rock music in 10 minutes

Ashley Musante
Oct 10, 20245 min read
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55 Years of Woodstock: The Truths and Lies to 3 Days of Peace and Music
Joni Mitchell captured the hope, fears, and dreams of Woodstock - all while never stepping foot at the festival

Ashley Musante
Aug 15, 20248 min read
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Simplicity and Grief: How Tom Petty Writes for an audience of One and a Million with the Same Words
Conveying his own pain, Tom Petty once more remains the most relatable a rock star could be

Ashley Musante
Aug 8, 20244 min read
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Thru and Thru: The Stones Single that Never Was
The enduring classic from the band's 1994 album that rarely gets it's flowers

Ashley Musante
Jul 17, 20246 min read
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How to Create a Classic From an Overplayed Standard: Jimi Hendrix and His First Hit
Take a song beaten to death, make it a classic: just another day at the office for Hendrix.

Ashley Musante
May 15, 20245 min read
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Fall Down Drunk: The Simplistic Genius of The Rolling Stones and Loving Cup
Simplicity, Excess, Love, and The Rolling Stones: What Could Possibly be Better?

Ashley Musante
May 8, 20245 min read
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The Single That Broke the Camel's Back: Infatuation at 40
The weirdest, most drama-fueled collaboration in rock music turns 40

Ashley Musante
May 1, 20246 min read
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Yer So Bad... or Good... or Whatever Tom Petty Meant
Sometimes, your critiques must come in candy coating - just ask Tom Petty.

Ashley Musante
Apr 24, 20244 min read
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Run-DMC Covering Aerosmith in the 80s is Still Important, By The Way.
It's always one step forward and three steps back, isn't it?

Ashley Musante
Apr 3, 20244 min read
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All The Nasties: A Song By and For Elton John
How do you describe the man who fails words? Well, you become a pretty damn good wordsmith.

Ashley Musante
Mar 25, 20245 min read
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Five Years: A Look Into Bowie's Best Opener
Opening a world of bisexual alien rockstars would be a difficult - if you weren't David Bowie

Ashley Musante
Mar 13, 20245 min read
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What Does A Kid Know About Love? Everything, apparently.
The idea of the love song was perfected in 1970 with a 19 year old Bernie Taupin, as crazy as that can sound. Well, it becomes less...

Ashley Musante
Feb 14, 20244 min read
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What Happens When the King Midas of Rock gets Knocked Down? He Writes Another Hit Song [Or Three]
The story of one man's trouble to take it easy [due to court, law, and affiliations with multiple Judas wannabes]

Ashley Musante
Jan 31, 20247 min read
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If A Man Bleeds All Over A Page But A Catchy Guitar Solo is Behind Him, Does He Still Bleed?
A look into a few terribly catchy cries for help

Ashley Musante
Nov 29, 202313 min read
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The Final Beatles Song
A New Beatles Song in 2023. Holy Shit.

Ashley Musante
Nov 2, 20236 min read
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Bruce Springsteen taps nostalgia with a fist
How Born to Run turned Bruce into The Boss

Ashley Musante
Sep 20, 20238 min read
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Ooh La La
What did we lose when we lost Faces? Some damn good rock and roll, for starters

Ashley Musante
Sep 13, 202310 min read
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