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Narratives of the Road: What Touring Memoirs Reveal About the Unglamorous Side of Making It
Van diaries, motel receipts and soundcheck boredom: the touring memoir tells the part of the music story the highlight reel leaves out.
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Building a Home Bookshelf for Your Vinyl Collection
A good record shelf fits every format, protects first pressings, and grows with your taste. How to build a home for your vinyl collection.
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The Twelve-Inch Canvas: how album cover art became a storytelling medium
From bound books of 78s to a two-inch streaming thumbnail, sleeve art has always done narrative work — the format just keeps changing the size of the page.
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The Best Doo-Wop Covers and the Stories Behind Them
Before a ranking can mean anything, the word at its center has to be examined.
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Reading the Wires: How to Tell a Reliable Music News Outlet From a Content Mill
Accuracy, sourcing, and separation of news from promotion: the checks that separate the trade press worth trusting from the rest.
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The Second Verse: How the Comeback Story Gets Retold
Rock's most rebooted careers are less a record of events than a plot structure the media keeps reaching for.
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The Best Storytelling Podcasts for Music Lovers: How to Tell a Great One From a Forgettable One
A listener's framework for judging the shows that take famous records apart, cue by cue.