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Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore talk to Tim Sommer about their German released EP Kill Yr Idols and using music as revenge against the Village Voice's Robert Christgau

Sonic Youth Interview on Music View, March 4th, 1984

Rock critic Greil Marcus discusses Amy Winehouse’s unique interpretation of rock classics, drawing from his recent book The History of Rock ‘N’ Roll in Ten Songs. 

Listen to Amy sing The Teddy Bear's catchy record "To Know Him is to Love Him" from 1958. → thecjm.me/1HU7CX8. Marcus says: "I want you to hear what she does with this...the way she makes deep soul music out of this corny, little teenage song."  #AmyWinehouse

Amy Winehouse Gallery Chat: Greil Marcus

In the third installment of Culture Reinvents Itself: Conversations with Greil Marcus, journalist and essayist John Jeremiah Sullivan speaks with author Greil Marcus (Music, The Graduate Center, CUNY).
Visit our site for more event information: http://www.centerforthehumanities.org/program/unnamed-caves-unknown-bards-travels-american-cultural-underground%E2%80%94john-jeremiah-sullivan

From Unnamed Caves to Unknown Bards: John Jeremiah Sullivan in Conversation with Greil Marcus

Robert Christgau gives Ryan Duffy a detailed description of the mechanics that are involved in being a music critic. It's not really as easy as it seems...

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Robert Christgau Explains Mechanics of Being a Music Critic

Marcel Duchamp reads his 1957 essay, "The Creative Act." Full text + background here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/23/the-creative-act-marcel-duchamp-1957/

Marcel Duchamp: The Creative Act (1957)

Excerpt from Debbie Millman's <i>Design Matters</i> interview with cartoonist Chris Ware. 

Full interview: https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/chris-ware

Related article about his incredible <i>Building Stories</i>: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/11/05/building-stories-chris-ware/

Chris Ware on destiny, literature, and unlived lives

"The arrows of adverse criticism cannot scratch, let alone pierce, the shield of what disappointed archers call my 'self-assurance.'"

Background and context:  http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/18/vladimir-nabokov-james-mossman-interview/

Vladimir Nabokov on literature and life (1969)

TIM RILEY BIOGRAPHY

NPR Critic and Emerson College Journalism professor Tim Riley has written five critically-acclaimed books on rock history, including Lennon: the Man, the Myth, and the Music (Hyperion, 2011). Kirkus Reviews chose it one of their best biographies from that year, The New York Times praised it as "potently descriptive... a critical tour-de-force," and Rolling Stone called it "…the most reliable, least star-struck volume on Lennon to date...”

For over twenty-five years, Riley has reviewed pop and classical music for NPR's Here And Now, while contributing to shows like On Point, All Things Considered and Morning Edition, as well as Radio Silence, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, Slate.com and Salon.com.

He was trained as a classical pianist at Oberlin and Eastman. In 2008, Brown University hosted Riley as its Critic-In Residence, and his first book, Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988), often gets assigned in pop culture and rock history courses. Since 1990, Riley has given lively multi-media lectures at colleges and cultural centers like the Chautauqua Festival on "Censorship in the Arts." His current projects include the Riley Rock Index.com, music's meta-portal, and the Emerson journalism department's social media initiative.

For more info and hi-rez media, visit: http://timrileyauthor.com


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