RPM: Jonathan Perry's Life In Analog

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RADIO CITY’S TRANSMISSIONS AT 50 AND BEYOND: A chat with Big Star’s co-founder/drummer Jody Stephens

All publicity and promotional photographs courtesy of Ardent Studios. In the more than half a century since their inception, demise, and rebirth, the Memphis-bred rock band Big Star have been rever…

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THE WAY HE WAS: Robert Redford 1936-2025

There was was something essential and intrinsic to Robert Redford’s being that lent his characters a magnetic, down-to-earth humanity; a knowing, watchful intelligence that imbued them with a…

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THE WAY HE WAS: Robert Redford 1936-2025

There was was something essential and intrinsic to Robert Redford’s being that lent his characters a magnetic, down-to-earth humanity; a knowing, watchful intelligence that imbued them with a…

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Friday marked the 60th anniversary of the Beatles’ seismic, game-changing appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, on February 9, 1964. I wasn’t old enough to have seen or remembered it, bei…

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ROLLING TO THE SWEET SOUNDS OF HEAVEN: Thoughts While Driving Home With Hackney Diamonds

I was driving home early one Friday morning through the back roads of Pennsylvania, listening to rock ‘n’ roll music on the niche-specific Sirius radio station, when a voice came on and…

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ROLLLING TO THE SWEET SOUNDS OF HEAVEN: Driving Home to The Stones’ Hackney Diamonds

I was driving home early one Friday morning through the back roads of Pennsylvania, listening to rock ‘n’ roll music on the niche-specific Sirius radio station, when a voice came on and…

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A LION, A COBRA, A PHOENIX FROM THE FLAME: Sinead O’Connor (1966-2023)

When my wife and I watched the superb 2022 Sinead O’Connor documentary, “Nothing Compares,” a month or so ago, my ultimate takeaway — besides being struck, again, by Sinead&…

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RPM: Jonathan Perry's Life In Analog turned 10 today!

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It’s a bit surreal for me to believe “Failer,” the effortlessly self-possessed and polished debut album by Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards, turned twenty this year. I …

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Rolling Stones colored vinyl on Swingin’ Pig Records (TSP), 1990s.

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The Six Million Dollar Man pilot, 1973, also known as “Cyborg.” Based on Martin Caiden’s novel of the same name. 

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