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A Headphones Jam With Umphrey's McGee in New York
My seat at the Beacon Theater for the January 18th show by the Chicago-based progressive-rock-with-pop-and-jams band Umphrey's McGee was in the fourth row of the ... | More »January 22, 1:50 PM ET| David Fricke -
My Year in Rock With Springsteen, Lou Reed and Lots of Guitars
"Everybody had a hard year/Everybody had a good time," John Lennon sang in "I Got a Feeling," on the Beatles' 1970 album, Let It Be. This is how good it got in mu... | More »January 14, 12:15 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks Radio: Michael Bloomfield's Prescription for the Blues
Michael Bloomfield was my first guitar hero. I never met or saw him in concert. But the clarion-treble ring of his guitar and the rapturous grip of his instinctive, me... | More »January 9, 5:10 PM ET| David Fricke -
A New Low in Health Care Rhetoric
I thought we'd heard it all when Sarah Palin compared having to pay taxes for someone else's health care to slavery, but old friend and Ayn Rand devotee Mega... | More »January 8, 11:15 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Yuppie Prohibition League Denounces Pot Legalization
January 3, 1:55 PM ET| Matt TaibbiWith all the other nonsense going on in this country, it's amazing (but of course expected) that anyone with other things to do would find the time to denounce Colorado's legal marijuana experiment.
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On Christmas, Republicans Quietly Declare War on Themselves
The holidays are a great time in politics. Every year it's the same: the minute the last bits of wrapping paper have been cleared away, and Grandpa has passed his... | More »December 30, 11:45 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Sarah Palin's Impressively Incoherent 'Duck Dynasty' Comments
I miss Sarah Palin. I was bummed when she decided not to run for president the last time around. It would have been hard to find a challenger to Barack Obama less funn... | More »December 19, 2:35 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Fricke's Picks: 2013's Best Reissues From Under the Radar
As rock & roll gets older, there is more history to examine, re-evaluate and (of course) reissue. What follows is more of this year's bounty of archival relea... | More »December 19, 1:25 PM ET| David Fricke -
The Rumored Chase-Madoff Settlement Is Another Bad Joke
Just under two months ago, when the $13 billion settlement for JP Morgan Chase was coming down the chute, word leaked out that that the deal was no sure thing. Among o... | More »December 16, 3:05 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Lurid Subprime Scams Unveiled in Long-Running Fraud Trial
Lost amid the hoopla over JP Morgan Chase's record-setting $13 billion settlement this fall was news of another monster court resolution – a $2.46 billion j... | More »December 12, 4:20 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Joey Ramone's First 45 and Robert Wyatt's Lost Hendrix Session
In 1967, 16-year-old Jeff Hyman of Queens, New York was nearly a decade away from inventing punk rock as Joey Ramone. He was already making records. In the late winter... | More »December 6, 4:10 PM ET| David Fricke -
Another Batch of Wall Street Villains Freed on Technicality
I love covering trials, which is one reason I've been a little sad since switching over to the Wall Street beat: Few of the bad guys in this world ever even get i... | More »December 4, 5:10 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Fricke's Picks Radio: Beck, the Blues and Television in Brooklyn
Just as early-winter weather hit New York City, I landed in Buenos Aires, Argentina for an event celebrating the 15th anniversary of that country's successful and... | More »December 2, 12:40 PM ET| David Fricke -
Beck's Long Road to 'Morning Phase'
The flashbacks come at high speed as soon as Beck hits the stage in an airplane-hangar-like hall at Technopolis, a science-and-amusement park in Buenos Aires, Argentin... | More »November 21, 12:10 PM ET| David Fricke
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