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Michael Hurley passed away last week at 83, leaving behind a legacy of untethered folk. Read our appreciation of his beloved album 'Armchair Boogie.' ...

It’s an incredible set of music. You can call it a musical reckoning because that’s where it takes you and brings you back. Some people have described his work as evoking geological layers, or roots ...

Bouncing offbeat bursts of chordal horns, guitar and keys counterpoint walking bass lines as ... “To bubble, you play a chord in the left hand and then a higher inversion of the chord on the right ...

So many of those occur when sifting through the songbook of Paul Simon. You’re floating along, enraptured in the beauty of a ...

Growing up in the 1990s in Oakland, California, director Ryan Coogler was fueled by his city's magnetic hip-hop scene and ...

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My Best Friend’s Girl, the second single off the album, was a perfect example of The Cars’ talent for new-wave ... “But what I did wasn’t that static,” he explains. “The chords are going E, A, B, and ...