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The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: The deadly suck of Hooverphonic

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: The deepest sound around

Who Put the Bomp in the Bomp De-Bomp De-Bomp?

Ask Greil: December 18, 2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: The Biblical Hillbillies

Ask Greil: December 5, 2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: The sound of being watched

Real Life Rock Top 10: November 27, 2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Elvis Costello's Warmth in Cold Places

A roundup of new books I can’t review plus one show

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Wanted for wailing

On Dorothea Lange

Ask Greil: November 10, 2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Soundtracks for fantasies

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: The outside-in of punk and the inside-out of jazz

Real Life Rock Top 10: November 1, 2023

Ask Greil: October 30, 2023

Madison, WI. / Fall/ Winter 1960 / Bob Dylan, Danny Kalb, Jeff Chase

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: The Beauty of Bad Singing

The New World Has Hit Oakland

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

Mixing up the Medicine: Tulsa appearance, October 21

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Why Syd Straw's Hair is Coming Loose

'Folk Music' conversation, October 18

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Pop going places it never went before

Real Life Rock Top 10: October 9, 2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Nostalgia isn't what it used to be

Ask Greil: September 29, 2023

Why I Write

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Ushering in the new exquisiteness

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: The Mod God Squad

Real Life Rock Top 10: September 18, 2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: The Curious Case of Eleventh Dream Day

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: The Pearl Jam radio show

The Best American Novel of the Previous 25 Years

Ask Greil (September 5, 2023)

Richard Powers, 'The Time of Our Singing'—from 2003, the best American novel of the last twenty years.

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: The times they are a-changin' again

Real Life Rock Top 10: August 28, 2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Nirvana unplugs the new order

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Natural Born Killers

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: The unbroken Marianne Faithfull

Ask Greil: August 8, 2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: 25-year-old prodigies—and a prophet who never made it to 25

Real Life Rock Top 10: August 1, 2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Stone Temple Pilots & Spin Doctors

Henry Bean, 'False Match' (1982)

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Dock Boggs

Ask Greil: July 14, 2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Woodstock

Real Life Rock Top 10: July 10, 2023

Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker (James Gavin)

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: 'Brutal Youth'

The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg (William Beard)

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Jim Elledge's 'Sweet Nothings'

Ask Greil: June 26, 2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Backbeat

Waking Up from History: Music, Time, and Place

Real Life Rock Top 10: June 15, 2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: How to claw your way to the top in the record biz

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Heavens to Betsy and the Fleetwoods

A Talk in Tulsa

‘Hollywood Babylon' Goes on the Road (Kenneth Anger)

Ask Greil: June 2, 2023

The World of 'The World According to Garp' (Interview with John Irving, 'Rolling Stone' 1979)

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: World Gone Wrong

Real Life Rock Top 10: May 26, 2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: MTV

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Cranes and Cranberries

Ask Greil: May 12

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Velvet Underground

Real Life Rock Top 10: May 2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Liliput

Forty Years of Overstatement: Criticism and the Disney Theme Parks (1998)

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Screams from the basement

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Pere Ubu's heroic punk clatter

Ask Greil: April 17, 2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: "Stairway to Heaven"

Real Life Rock Top 10: April 2023

Chez Panisse: 2000s

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: The Goats

Chez Panisse: Nineties

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Keith Carter's 'Mojo'

Ask Greil: March 27, 2023

Chez Panisse: Eighties

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Vulgar Boatmen

Chez Panisse: Seventies

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: The summer-of-love generation reaches the White House. So do their kids.

Top Ten or so “Rock N Roll Threat” Notes (by Howard Hampton)

Real Life Rock Top 10: March 2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Pop Music Saves the World Again. Not.

Ask Greil: March 6, 2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Donovan

Triple Elvis: Baz Lurhmann 2022 / Ed Sullivan 1956-57 / Comeback Special 1968

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Roger Clinton

As Central to the Art of the Movies as Anyone on the Planet: Tom Luddy, 1943-2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: yglg

Ask Greil: February 15, 2023

Real Life Rock Top 10: February 2023

Tied to History

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Bruce Springsteen

Two Sundays Ago: Sleater-Kinney

Emily's Playlist

Emily Rose Marcus 1969-2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Basehead

Ask Greil: January 30, 2023

A Conversation with Jann Wenner

Hear in This Place

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Dino

Real Life Rock Top 10: January 20, 2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: A Moral Crisis

Ask Greil: January 16, 2023

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008: Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine

The 'Days Between Stations' columns, Interview magazine 1992-2008

Back and Forth with Jon Landau on the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Ask Greil: January 4, 2023

Real Life Rock Top 10: January 2022