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MY HERO — In a 2010 audio interview, Taylor Hawkins (1972-2022) talks to Steven Rosen about Foo Fighters side project the Coattail Riders and tells Stevie Chick how he first met the Foos' Dave Grohl (right) in 1997. Plus John Swenson (1951-2022) tells the story of Paul Williams' Crawdaddy! on the magazine's 10th anniversary in 1976 and Vivien Goldman meets Donald "Tabby" Shaw (1955-2022) and the Mighty Diamonds in 1978...
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FREAKS OF THE WEEK — Exclusive audio of Red Hot Chili Peppers Flea and Hillel Slovak, talking about George Clinton and Freaky Styley with Simon Witter (1985). Plus Devon Powers revisits the breakthrough album that was 1991's BloodSugarSexMagik (2003) and Robert Sandall hears how producer Rick Rubin "tamed" the Californicators (2006)...
IT TOOK A VILLAGE — In two excerpts from her 2013 book Writing the Record, Devon Powers explains how The Village Voice helped to spawn rock criticism as we know it… and the key role of the paper's "Pop Eye" columnist Richard Goldstein in that story. Plus Devon sees PJ Harvey live at the Hammerstein Ballroom a week before 9/11... and a year later pops the question: "Is music journalism dead?"
MY HERO — In a 2010 audio interview, Taylor Hawkins (1972-2022) talks to Steven Rosen about Foo Fighters side project the Coattail Riders and tells Stevie Chick how he first met the Foos' Dave Grohl (right) in 1997. Plus John Swenson (1951-2022) tells the story of Paul Williams' Crawdaddy! on the magazine's 10th anniversary in 1976 and Vivien Goldman meets Donald "Tabby" Shaw (1955-2022) and the Mighty Diamonds in 1978...
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“I pray for Europe. I pray that God will put a little bit of Jesus into the heart of that guy Khrushchev…”
— Little Richard (1962)
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STARS AND STRIPES — Backstage at New York's Bowery Ballroom, the White Stripes' Jack and Meg talk to Ira Robbins about their blues influences and the imminent White Blood Cells (2001).
Jimi Hendrix to Kate Bush: the complete RBP Audio library
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