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There was no shortage of major global events for the weekly news magazines to cover in October 1975. The last smallpox patient on Earth was treated in Bangladesh; Francisco Franco’s dictatorship came to an end in Spain after nearly 40 years; Saturday Night Live hit the NBC airwaves for the …

When Princeton history professor Sean Wilentz was a student at Columbia in 1969, a new Bob Dylan record titled The Great White Wonder began popping up in record stores. Completely unsanctioned by Bob Dylan or his label, it mixed Basement Tapes material with informal recordings of Dylan during his early …

While writer-director Scott Cooper was working on early screenplay drafts for Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, the real-life subject of the film made it clear how he wanted him to approach the project. “Bruce gave me a piece of advice that I felt was really critical,” Cooper says on the …

For Stephen Graham, it’s been a big year for dad roles, starting with his part as the distraught parent of a tragically warped son in Netflix’s Adolescence —the culture-shaking show he also co-created. He gives an equally strong performance as a very different father, the troubled Douglas Springsteen, in the …

At last month’s Earl Scruggs Music Festival, the Wood Brothers might have seemed a tad out of left field for a gathering dedicated to the late bluegrass picker. And yet, the same could be said whenever the trio is on a bill at a jam-band show, jazz night, or some …

Halloween is just around the corner and if you don’t have a costume yet, all you have to do is turn to the music world for some inspiration. Already, 2025 has produced some major pop culture moments — some hilarious, some inspiring, and a lot of them memorable enough to …

The Droptines were used to playing simple dive bars and rock rooms. Their worldview changed thissummer when they went on an amphitheater tour with Whiskey Myers. By the time the Texas roots-rock band’s opening run for Whiskey Myers ended with a sold-out show in Nashville earlier this summer, the five-piece …

Julian Lennon knows how some people may view him, even more than 40 years after his life as a pop star began with his first and biggest album, Valotte. But speaking from his home in Monaco, he’s trying to find the right word. “Some have said that, with nepotism today, …

Most music biopics take place in a world of alternative facts where Queen broke up before Live Aid, Elton John named himself after John Lennon, Mötley Crüe‘s Vince Neil sang Billy Squier’s “My Kinda Lover” before it was released, Amy Winehouse didn’t thank “Blake Incarcerated” at the Grammys, and Bob …

When Ace Frehley played what would be his final concert last month, he took the stage with a rhythm guitar player who had been by his side longer than any other in his solo bands: Nashville shredder Jeremy Asbrock. Together, they tore through Kiss classics like “Deuce” and “Cold Gin,” …