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An Underground Punk-To-Alt-Country Legend Finally Breaks Through

The greatest heroes of all are the ones unsung. They can be no less than glorious because the realm of their glory is the admiring mind. Essentially unchallengeable, the unsung are unbeatable. They derive much (and sometimes all) of their status in the ...

From DAVID HAJDU, The New Republic,  30 Jul 2008

Our Critic On Music And The Internet (And Why Radiohead Shouldn't Trick You Into Thinking You Can Rock)

The urge to make the work our own is elemental to the act of encountering art, and we try to satisfy it in many ways. We look at a painting or listen to a piece of music and take it in, hoping that it will prove to be not only an expression of human ...

From DAVID HAJDU, The New Republic,  19 Jun 2008

A TNR Debate: 'The Ten-Cent Plague'

Please click here and here to read the previous entries in this debate, and here to view a (newly-expanded!) slideshow of lurid early-'50s comic book covers. I'll admit it: Asking whether the comics crackdown of the '50s precipitated or delayed the ...

From DOUGLAS WOLK & DAVID HAJDU, The New Republic,  9 Apr 2008

Part Two Of A TNR Debate: 'The Ten-Cent Plague'

Please click here to read the previous entry in this debate, and here to view a slideshow curated by Hajdu of lurid early-'50s comic book covers. Thanks for the kind words, and thanks, too--for all your fine work on music as well as comics. You ask ...

From DAVID HAJDU & DOUGLAS WOLK, The New Republic,  9 Apr 2008

A TNR Debate: ‘The Ten-Cent Plague’

Please click here to read the previous entry in this debate, and here to view a slideshow curated by Hajdu of lurid early-'50s comic book covers. Thanks for the kind words, and thanks, too--for all your fine work on music as well as comics. You ask ...

From DAVID HAJDU & DOUGLAS WOLK, The New Republic,  8 Apr 2008

The Vanity, Irony, And Surprising Poignancy Of This Year's Campaign Songs

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From DAVID HAJDU, The New Republic,  26 Feb 2008

The Sound of One Hand Composing: Philip Glass Does Leonard Cohen

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From DAVID HAJDU, The New Republic,  24 Jan 2008

The Year in Jazz

With the rise of digital music-making and web-based distribution, the collapse of the CD business, and the shrinking of the classical audience, the musical world is in a phase of systemic change worth the attention of Al Gore.  Yet, for the most part, ...

From DAVID HAJDU, The New Republic,  1 Jan 2008

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