L ike many people during the early months of the pandemic, Ari, 21, lost her job in the summer of 2020. She’d been working at a casino in the U.K., but government shutdowns forced her employer to lay her off. “I had to get money somehow,” she says. Ari, whose …
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It’s past 10 a.m. on a Tuesday morning and Zarifa Ghafari is running late for work. Six days a week, she commutes from her home in Kabul to Maidan Shar, the embattled capital of Wardak province, where she serves as the youngest female mayor in the country. Her office is …
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He had one last chance to make it real. Or at least that’s how the story goes. With 1975’sBorn to Run, a 25-year-oldBruce Springsteenfelt like his very life was on the line, which is probably why he drove himself —and the E Street Band —to the brink of breakdown over …
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Back in 2016, John Prine was having trouble writing new songs. It had been more than a decade since his last album, 2005’s excellent Fair & Square,and the longer he waited to release a new one, the more anxious he felt. “One of the reasons I’m having such a difficult …
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In this first installment of our two-part deep dive into the history and influence of King Crimson‘s “21st Century Schizoid Man,” the band’s co-founders look back on the writing of the iconic song, and contemporaries recount its initial impact onstage and on LP. To read the second part — which …
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Near the end of a recent conversation with Rolling Stone, in which he emphasized time and again that his musical tastes aren’t confined to any one style, eminent avant-gardist Anthony Braxton illustrated his point by sharing a nickname he’s earned from those close to him. “My friends call me Anthony …
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