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Kanye West, Lollapalooza, Chile, 2011 (via Rodrigo Ferrari’s Flickrstream) As the Village Voice’s 41st Pazz & Jop Critics Poll makes clear, Kanye West is the most gifted popular musician of our time. This may sound like empty, generalized...

“I’m watching [Chungking Express] and all of a sudden I start crying –– tears started falling, about three different times during the movie. I was like, why am I crying? And it’s because my feelings for this movie run so deep –– I’m crying not about...

Nature Boy (Nat King Cole). Nature Boy (Nat King Cole, live). Nature Boy (Bowie). Nature Boy (Bowie and Massive Attack). When I was young I dreamed of a boy searching for God. Now I am old and dream of God searching for a boy. eden ahbez, 1977. One...

You have to be of a certain age to appreciate the irony in this permissive paean, sung in 1977 by Randy California (né Wolfe), the guitarist of the rock band Spirit. Earlier this year, a trustee for the late Wolfe’s estate implied that it matters very...

As lead singer of California rock group The Go-Go’s, Belinda Carlisle conclusively proved that she, indeed, had the beat.  In her solo career, she applied her powerfully soaring pipes – one minute honeyed, the next smoky – to some...