In the new Granta podcast, Paul Auster and Don DeLillo discuss living in and writing about New York City. All Things Considered interviews Greil Marcus about his new book The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years . The List of Online Year-End 2011 Music Lists was updated Friday with Fluxblog's songs of 2011 (with downloads), FACT's best albums, PopMatter's best metal albums and [...]
Photo by Thierry ArdittiWhen it was time for Greil Marcus to start his reading last night at Magers and Quinn, he suddenly realized that his emcee had gone missing--off, he later suggested, to use th
Greil Marcus has been a leading American music and culture critic for over four decades. He is the author of 18 books including Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads and Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music. His latest book, Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 , is a collection of essays, reviews and critical analysis of just about anything Dylan did from 1968 onwards. Marcus is a critic who isn't afraid to speak his mind; in fact, one could say there is as much [...]
Well hot damn. It's that time again. Every week at WKNC, we try to provide you with the chance to win tickets to great shows around the Triangle. Deejays should always be doing giveaways, even if you haven't seen what's available via this blog... you can always listen in to your favorite show and win tickets! Things to look forward to this week: 2/16: Greil Marcus (former writer for Rolling Stone magazine) listening party @ The Pinhook [...]
On Wednesday, January 12, Greil Marcus returned to "one of [his] favorite places" to perform a reading, Booksmith on Haight St in San Francisco. He would read selections and share anecdotes on the subject of his latest book, Bob Dylan. Before Marcus arrived, with the seating a little more than half full, an older Haight hippie came in asking everyone how they were doing and whether they were there for Marcus or Dylan. When no one responded, he reminded everyone, "This is a bookstore, not a library. You can talk." He asked again what brought [...]
Esteemed critic and historian Greil Marcus discusses his latest book on the music of Van Morrison. Van Morrison - Greil Marcus - Books - Arts - Shopping
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Pop Matters has posted Robert Loss' terrific review of Greil Marcus' new book on Van Morrison, When the Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison . Loss says that the books "explores moments of contradiction, sublime beauty, audacity, failure and grace in the singer-songwriter's career with a keen ear and precision even as it maintains the ruminative tone and rich thoughtfulness we've come to expect from one of America's best cultural critics and historians." While I haven't read the book yet, it's not hard to imagine that Marcus' dissection of, say, [...]
There is a terrific article over at Popmatters about the impact of Greil Marcus. I can't plug this article enough because Marcus is the most important music critic America has ever seen. Period. He towers over all of the big names in the field: Sasha Frere Jones (who is trash, by the way), Lester Bangs, Matthew Perpetua, Simon Reynolds, Henry Owings, Ann Powers, Rob Sheffield, Toure, Tricia
I love the song "Rock In The Sea" by Shocking Blue, which incorporates some of the lyrics and spirit of the old mountain tune "I Wish I was A Rock In The Sea," first recorded by the folklorist Bascom Lamar Lunsford. Rock In The Sea- Shocking Blue As a fruit tree salesman, Lunsford travelled extensively through North Carolina and traded traditional tunes with his customers and acquaintances. I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground- Bascom Lamar Lunsford [...]
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I know, a book review, but yes, I read a book, and I am going to write a little bit about it, so there you go. So anyway, I have never been too knowledgable or have searched too much (at least since high school) into rock literature or anything of the sort so this was kind of a reintroduction into these things. Nor have I really ever regularly read Rolling Stone or any other music writings with any regular occurrence, so I dove into this book, which was highly thought of, and I actually thoroughly enjoyed it, and [...]
Greil Marcus, one of the writers of pop culture criticism and zeitgeist definitions, is celebrating the twentieth anniversary next week of his landmark book and one of our personal favorite texts to return to every once in a while, Lipstick...
"To mark the just-published 20th-anniversary edition of his book ' Liptick Traces ' the book, Columbia University in partnership with the ARChive of Contemporary Music presents Greil Marcus in a one-man performance of Lipstick Traces. The event will take place on Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. at Altschul Auditorium, 417 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street and is free and open to the public. In addition, the Music & Arts Library at Columbia University will display books by Marcus, books that influenced him, and posters, records, and other materials courtesy of the ARChive of Contemporary [...]
Dear Monitor Mix readers. It is thanks to you and the fine folks at NPR Music that I have been fortunate enough to write this blog for the last two years. I am proud to announce that four of my Monitor Mix pieces made it into Best Music Writing 2009 , guest-edited by Greil Marcus and published by Da Capo Press. To celebrate the release of the book, there is a launch event on Monday, November 2nd. Lastly, special thanks to my editors, Robin Hilton and Stephen Thompson. Details from Da Capo: [...]
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By: David SchultzAbout a year ago, I came across former Rolling Stone editor Greil Marcus' 1975 opus, Mystery Train. Don't act too surprised, the Largehearted Boy isn't the only one who reads, you know. In his influential novel, one of the first extended works of critical music analysis, Marcus sussed out the origins of American rock and roll, recasting the music of the Sixties and early
Former Boston Phoenix staffer JAMES PARKER -- who now covers SpongeBob for some up-market liberal rag you may have heard of -- has been tapped for inclusion in DaCapo's DANCING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
San Francisco native Greil Marcus is one of rock music's most celebrated critics - with works including Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music and In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992 - and an opportunity to see him speak is well worth seizing. Marcus will be at the Contemporary Jewish Museum on Thursday, May 14, at 7pm for a gallery talk about "Music and the American Self," discussing what "American music" is and the connection between American music and identity. [...]
A couple weeks ago I picked up a copy of Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island while swimming through the sea of humanity and books that is the Green Valley Book Fair. For those not familiar with Stranded here's the basic premise: Famed rock critic and music writer Greil Marcus approached twenty of his fellow rock critics and asked each of them to write an essay in answer to the following question-- If you found yourself all alone on a deserted island, what one rock album would you take with you? [...]
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