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Sep 9, 2023 • Joe Bonomo
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Gimme gimme revolution
How Green Day's “Know Your Enemy” has become a people’s anthem
Sep 20 • Joe Bonomo
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Poor boys
The Everly Brothers harmonize the lures and the pitfalls of cold, hard cash
Sep 13 • Joe Bonomo
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Ask me why
The world lost a wise and idiosyncratic music writer when Ian MacDonald died in 2003
Sep 6 • Joe Bonomo
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The children of atom bombs
The Stooges and the Flamin' Groovies righteously rocked, and history stuck to them
Sep 1 • Joe Bonomo
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But I have to go back
Revisiting Pete Townshend's White City: A Novel and White City: The Music Movie
Aug 26 • Joe Bonomo
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Noise, three ways
Some thoughts on a through-line with Ellen Willis, Suicide, and Art Pepper
Aug 23 • Joe Bonomo
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Beep-beep'm-beep-beep, yeah
Hop in as I listen to the entire Beatles canon on a road trip
Published on No Such Thing As Was • Aug 15
Here are a few (more) of my favorite B-sides
The second in a series in which I dig into my collection for some boss flip sides
Aug 12 • Joe Bonomo
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Life is timeless, days are long
In the span from "When You're Young" to "That Dangerous Age," Paul Weller grows up
Aug 5 • Joe Bonomo
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To tell the truth
Silverhead's "In Your Eyes" looks on while the dB's's "I Lied" looks away
Jul 31 • Joe Bonomo
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Rev it up
Chris Alpert Coyle and Scott Sugiuchi’s new book about the Estrus record label, and flashing back to the Mono Men
Jul 25 • Joe Bonomo
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