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Free Bob Dylan
This Slate piece by Ron Rosenbaum on the cult of Bob Dylan, musical politics in China, and the neverending mystery of the man is one of the best pieces of music writing I’ve heard in a long time. Here’s a taste: And then they twisted themselves into pretzel-like contradictions: Dylan was never really a protest…
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Good for music?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w] OK GO’s breakout success came after an extremely popular homemade music video was uploaded onto YouTube. Quirky music videos became their shtick. Remarkably, when they released a new(-ish) single, “This Too Shall Pass,” their label, EMI, decided to make the video un-embeddable and issue takedown notices when it popped up on YouTube. The band…
