Greil Marcus / Letter in the Ether

Real Life Rock Top 10: December 5, 2025

Special Bob Dylan–Adjacent Edition! Guest Starring Harry Belafonte, Robbie Robertson, and Buddy Holly!

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November 2025

Ask Greil: November 19, 2025

“Pure and Easy” has such warmth, it’s such a vision of wholeness, the world in balance, without ever ignoring danger and risk and failure and even bad…

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Real Life Rock Top 10: November 3, 2025

Alienation, Misunderstanding, Discovery, and Revelation, Featuring Jeremy Allen White, Zoe Saldaña, Mike Figgis, and Sonny Til

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October 2025

Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

Real Life Rock, California magazine, November 1982

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Real Life Rock Top 10: October 10, 2025

World Upside Down: Taylor Swift and Woody Guthrie Yes, Clarence Ashley and Neko Case No

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September 2025

Ask Greil: September 20, 2025

That lift as “Madame George” begins: is anything in life going to satisfy the desire in that moment of art?

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Real Life Rock Top 10: September 5, 2025

A billboard, a suicide, Sinéad O’Connor in many hands, and a holiday in the sun

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August 2025

Ask Greil: August 26, 2025

No one was ready for A Hard Day's Night—because, against all odds, at least in the US, it fit no pop template that made any sense.

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Ask Greil: August 7, 2025

“The old, free America” pissed me off because it suggested America was a thing of the past, a finished thing.

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Real Life Rock Top 10: August 4, 2025

The Beatles in three shapes, Penelope Houston paints murderers, the Mekons tell the truth (again), and so does Daveed Diggs

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Event: Oceanic Feelings with Lapham's Quarterly

Clio's, Oakland, August 12

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July 2025

When First Unto This Country: Bob Dylan and the Little Sandy Review

Video from the third World of Bob Dylan conference in Tulsa, July 25, 2025

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