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  • Even if the tone of the wall texts and labels in Denver implies that in those innocent days such determinedly committed experimentation with drugs was either relatively harmless, or part of a form of general résistance, or a whole lot of fun, again and again you find yourself feeling that these artists and their San Francisco rock-music impresario patrons were behaving like so many naughty children literally begging to get caught.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Even if the tone of the wall texts and labels in Denver implies that in those innocent days such determinedly committed experimentation with drugs was either relatively harmless, or part of a form of general résistance, or a whole lot of fun, again and again you find yourself feeling that these artists and their San Francisco rock-music impresario patrons were behaving like so many naughty children literally begging to get caught.

    Psychedelic Denver 2009

  • In the living room is a large framed photograph of Patti Smith, and in the bedroom is a framed a vintage t-shirt worn by bartenders at Fillmore East, a legendary rock-music venue.

    A Brownstone With a Secret Side Corrie Driebusch 2012

  • The performance also included less successful excerpts from a Broadway cabaret and a rock-music revue.

    From Lucy Bowen McCauley, a retrospective of great leaps Rebecca Ritzel 2010

  • What if I had attacked Cirque from the perspective of a rock-music critic or even an aficionado of circus technique?

    Hey, Who Are You Calling a Snob? Pia Catton 2011

  • What if I had attacked Cirque from the perspective of a rock-music critic or even an aficionado of circus technique?

    Hey, Who Are You Calling a Snob? Pia Catton 2011

  • The Elvis scene works so well for Mr. Carlin because he's not afraid to acknowledge the limited perspective of his source — in this case, journalist Chris Hutchins, barely mentioned in Mr. Sounes's account but right at the crux of the action in Mr. Carlin's riveting re-creation of a pivotal time in rock-music history.

    McCartney Keeps the Biographers at Bay Carl Rollyson 2010

  • McGahee said he thought that was a reference to a rock-music festival: a concert tour called The Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival played in Phoenix last July.

    Jared Loughner's college instructor: I was worried he might have a gun in class David A. Fahrenthold 2011

  • Tyler Polumsky, who produces Ilkhom's rock-music festival, said everyone expected a band of young Afghans with a controversial female guitarist to show up, not an eclectic group of Western expats using a Russian Cheburashka doll—part human, part teddy bear—as a mascot.

    White City Rocks, Rolls from Almaty to Lahore Maria Abi-Habib 2011

  • The latest wave of major attacks to hit Moscow was in 2004, when suicide bombers struck rock-music festivals, subway stations and the flights from Domodedovo, killing scores.

    Russia Vows Crackdown on Terror Richard Boudreaux 2011

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