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My Life in the Sunshine (Viking 2022). Listen to the audiobook

The New York Times - A Wrong Turn in Mississippi

The Guardian - Life With Fela Kuti on History's Most Dangerous Tour

Fortune - Robert Smith of The Cure is the hero we need

The New York Times - Can I Please Use Your Phone?

The New York Times - It Took Me 49 Years to Ask the Right Question About My Father

The New York Times - Why We Can’t Quit the Guitar Solo

The New York Times - Why Music Drives Us to Mayhem

Pitchfork - What Black Music Month Means Now

Rolling Stone - The Night Nirvana Changed Everything

Alma - My Grandmother’s Memoirs Reveal a Jewish New York I Still Recognize

Pitchfork - Bad Brains “I Against I” Sunday Review

The New York Times - Breaking Down ‘Those Color Lines’ in a Music Industry That Drew Them

People - Losing My Senses of Taste and Smell During COVID

GQ - I Want My Afro Back

VOX - The best $2,000 I ever spent: the lawyer who cleared me of a drug charge

NPR’s Code Switch - A Family Tree With Roots Deep In Slavery

Vulture - Why The Lead Singer of Imagine Dragons Is Fighting for LGBTQ Rights

The New York Times - Coming of Age in the Loft Jazz Scene

Huffpost - Klan Day at the Texas State Fair

The Stranger - The (Sonic) Boom Years—Memories of a Newly Former Seattle Record Store Owner