55 stories by "Blake Maddux"
When someone recommended to Steven Hassan he write a volume called The Cult of Trump, "it just seemed like the most important book I could write, frankly."
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"You can read Frederick Douglass forever and still just encounter new things, new ideas, new passages, new phrases. He's that kind of writer. It's like reading Emerson or even Shakespeare."
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Robert Forster was apparently spot-on when he proclaimed that The Go-Betweens "were too good for the bloody charts."
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I wanted to give my kids this gift of a book about them and for them.
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"I've put out records by myself before, but this is like 10 times the work!"
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Will Birch's biography Cruel to Be Kind effortlessly details the six decade career of rocker Nick Lowe.
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"Honest weight" has more to with like karats of gold, maybe. The "weight" being the value of something. It kind of alludes to that a little bit.
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If there is any theme that runs throughout the story of Roger Daltrey's life as he tells it, it's that he has always needed more money to " as he so folksily puts it " "pay the bills."
The p…
The book deals with how Atheists, Wiccans, Summums, Muslims, and Satanists "fought to have their voices heard" in communities dominated by Christians and others who were skeptical of their c…
"Since the late '60s I've been up and down the Northeast corridor, and Boston's always one of our favorite stops."
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Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's The Ideas That Made America makes for an exciting, if quicksilver, tour through intellectual history.
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Dino Cattaneo saw an opportunity to mark another ruby anniversary with the help of "killer" " his word of choice " local artists.
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Overall, Juliana Hatfield's Weird is closer to good than to great.
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Tina Cassidy talks about her revealing and enjoyable new book about how a woman's right to vote became enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
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It would appear that Martin Phillipps and company are experiencing a late-career renaissance that bodes well for their future.
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"It's a very exciting prospect that your peers think your worthy to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."
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Here are 12 albums that come out in 2018 that I liked.
The author's combination of knowledge and experience has resulted in a boisterous chronicle of one of indie rock's least probable but most luminous and unremitting stars.
The first book on the largest mass killing of gays and lesbians in the United States until the 2016 massacre at Pulse.
"Rather than encourage the machines to behave like machines, I chose to find ways to sort of use them to create a very cinematic and atmospheric soundscapes."
Rob Sheffield seemed to have promised a whale of an original tale but delivered only a few goldfish.
Jesse Colin Young's best material is worthy of favorable comparisons to Tom Rush, Gordon Lightfoot, and the unrelated Neil Young.
Sloan is a brand that stands for high-quality, retro-flavored pop that is rarely hackneyed or derivative.
Dedham native and Boston University graduate Ryan H. Walsh wanted to learn more about the local connections to what he calls his "favorite album of all time."
"There's not too many people wanting their money back, thinking that they're at a Pig Destroyer show or Destroyer 666."
