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Marc Spitz’s book on rock and roll cinema, “Loud Pictures,” will be released by Dey Street Books/Harper Collins in 2017.   Follow Marc Spitz at @marcspitz

(BB Gun Press)

Salon’s final Chris Cornell interview: “Living in the moment, feeling out what’s possible”

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(Da Capo Press)

“Oh yeah, I’ve done lots and lots of therapy over the years and I got sober”: Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones’ memoir

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Cover detail of "No Sleep: NYC Nightlife Flyers 1988-1999"

“No Sleep: NYC Nightlife Flyers 1988-1999” chronicles night life in the city when night life meant something

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Julian Casablancas; Debbie Harris; David Johansen (Getty/Simone Joyner/Hulton Archive/ Bruno Vincent)

The sound of New York rock: “Something that comes from the streets, and sounds like the streets”

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Matt Pinfield (Simon & Schuster)

Matt Pinfield’s insane rock life: Catching up with the “short, bald, chubby guy from Jersey” who ruled MTV’s golden age

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Griffin Dunne and David Naughton in "An American Werewolf in London" (Universal Pictures)

“Stay off the moors!”: John Landis’ “An American Werewolf in London” is a modern horror masterpiece

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Madonna; Macy Gray; Miley Cyrus (AP/Reuters/Gary Hershorn/Frank Micelotta)

MTV’s VMAs and me: A music writer’s long journey from wow to meh

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My end-of-summer ritual: Deciding when it is safe and appropriate to play this quintessential August song

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Expand your punk knowledge: Slash magazine collection will school you on the ’70s L.A. scene

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Garbage (BB Gun Press/Joseph Cultice)

Shirley Manson has outlived the haters: “The business got very fat and lazy and was full of people who didn’t even care about music”

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Peter Tork (AP/Jeff Daly)

“The Monkees songbook is maybe the third-best”: Peter Tork claims the bronze—right after the Beatles and the Stones

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Every day is Record Store Day: In praise of the one album you can always find in the used vinyl bin

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John Doe (Cool Rock Records/Jim Herrington)

X’s John Doe gets spiritual: “I believe in things that you can’t see acting on the way things turn out”

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Zosia Mamet in "Girls," David Bowie's "Hunky Dory," Bobby Cannavale and Olivia Wilde in "Vinyl" (HBO/Salon)

Is there life after “Life on Mars?”: David Bowie’s death has made this ubiquitous song so painful to hear

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Patti Smith, Jeff Buckley, Bob Marley (AP)

13 monster hits that suck by artists you love: “This is a jam for Guy Fieri-catered deck parties”

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The Beatles (AP)

Feel like breaking up? Here are the 10 best kiss-off songs of all time

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Ronee Blakley in "Nashville" (Paramount Pictures)

Primary lessons of “Nashville”: Robert Altman’s noisy, tense, brilliant American epic is chicken soup for the weary election year soul

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Eleanor Friedberger (Joe DeNardo)

Eleanor Friedberger on leaving Brooklyn, approaching 40 and why she’d be happy to sell out: “I don’t think that attitude really exists anymore”

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(Fox)

I’m ready for “The X-Files” now: How Mulder and Scully won me over, with a little help from terror and time

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Bob Dylan in the video for "Subterranean Homesick Blues"

R.I.P, the list pop song: Missing the lost art of rock ‘n’ roll lyrical overload

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(AP/Rich Fury)

Scott Weiland, dead at 48: When I think of the Stone Temple Pilots frontman, I think of the past

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(AP/John Shearer)

We’ve never had a break from ELO: Do ya really need to hear this song, ever again?

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“Liquid Sky”: This glam early-’80s sci-fi masterpiece that predicted the AIDS crisis could disappear forever

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(Capitol Music Group)

“Squeeze got a bit complacent in the ’90s before we split up”: Glenn Tilbrook opens up about the past and future of the legendary new wave band

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