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THE NEW YORK TIMES

Can's Live Shows Will Be Heard at Last, Thanks to a Bootlegger: May 2021

The Wild Story of CREEM, Once "America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine": August 2020

Terry Riley's Avant-Garde Sounds Are Still Casting Spells: December 2019

Excavating the Lost Work of Peter Laughner, a Rock ’n’ Roll Tragedy: August 2019

Think Tim Jones’s Cosmic R&B Is Weird? Wait Until You Meet His Dummy: October 2018

How Bombino Became the Sultan of Shred: May 2018

Detroit House Music Takes a Swaggering Step Out of the Darkness (Theo Parrish, Moodymann, Omar-S, Kyle Hall, Jay Daniel): July 2017

Alice Coltrane’s Ashram Recordings Finally Have a Wide Release: May 2017

Rhiannon Giddens Celebrates “Freedom Highway” in the Big House: February 2017

Temple of the Dog Reunites, Headliners at Last on a Mini-Tour: November 2016

Popcast: Techno's New Identity: June 2016

Spinning Tunes in Ghana, With the World On His Mind (DJ Katapila): February 2016

From the Ashes, a Proto-Punk Revival: The Short-Lived Cleveland Band X__X Is Back: November 2014

For a Raw Voice, the Balm of Serendipity: Benjamin Booker on Opening for Jack White: August 2014

30 Years Later, a Cosmos Reanimated: Craig Leon Rerecords a Synth Classic: July 2014

For New Age, the Next Generation (Mark McGuire, "I Am the Center," Iasos, & Laraaji): February 2014

Popcast: Rediscovering New Age: February 2014

An Elusive Mystery Man of Music (William Onyeabor): November 2013

Ty Segall Releases the Psychedelic-Folk Album "Sleeper": August 2013

Disco's New Big Band Era (Crystal Ark, Escort, & Midnight Magic): November 2012

Loud Enough to Be Heard In Another Country (Japandroids): June 2012

A Battered City, Through Local Lenses: Filmmakers From Detroit Take Their Own Looks At the City ("Burn," "Deforce," "Detropia," "Mobile Homestead"): April 2012

Between Semesters, Digital Innovation: Nicolas Jaar, Electronic Musician and Student at Brown: March 2012

Capturing the Idling of the Motor City: Andrew Moore's Photographic Take On Detroit Decay: August 2011:

Lost, With Laptops, In Psychedelic Space (Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer, & the Low End Theory Scene): May 2010

Who Knew That Robots Were Funky?: The Heritage of Kraftwerk on Funk and Techno: December 2009

Still Punk, But Beyond Tantrums: Jay Reatard: August 2009

This Band Was Punk Before Punk Was Punk: A Band Called Death: March 2009

Slapshot Blog: Partisan Preview: Detroit vs. Pittsburgh: May 2008

Slapshot Blog: Partisan Preview: Detroit vs. Colorado: April 2008

Dracula Takes Dancing Lesson's (Guy Maddin and "Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary"): May 2003

Techno Dances With Jazz (Herbie Hancock, Innerzone Orchestra, Cinematic Orchestra, Squarepusher, Spring Heel Jack, Kirk Degiorgio, & Matthew Herbert): September 2001

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE

The Straw That Stirs the Shtick (ESPN's "SportsCenter" Commercials): October 1998