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While we mourn the death of any great artist, some losses hit harder than others.

Worshippers of those faux-trad Brit wannabes never have heard the mighty Richard Thompson.

Why are Chicagoans sitting at home and live-tweeting obnoxious performances on television when they could just walk down the street and see a great live band right in their neighborhood?

Thanks to the Letter Writers Alliance of Chicago, the vintage art of snail mail (and carrier pigeons!) lives on. 

My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless is the most innovative and influential rock album of the last 25 years—more so than Nevermind, that other record that shook the music world to its very foundations in 1991, or any other effort that anyone could name constructed more or les

Whether you celebrated his head-butting antics, his exhortations of “Rock over London!

Electropop, shoegaze and classic rock reunions signify a banner year for musical nostalgia.