Dave Cobb: Wrangling Rough Country Beasts Toward Nashville
March 21, 2016
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Revolutionary on the Run
May 29, 2015
In 2011, at age 23, Ramy Essam, Egypt’s “singer for the revolution” was lionized for helping to overthrow a dictator. Four years later, a brutal military crackdown has all but destroyed the country’s youthful protest movement while its hero bides his time in a faraway country, trying to keep the fight — and himself — alive.
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The Oral History of In Living Color
March 27, 2015
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In The Studio: Mastodon
July 22, 2011
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The Wait Is Almost Over
June 6, 2011Tomorrow, the greatest book in the history of the printed word will finally be available for purchase by the general public. If you are only going to buy one book this year about an alcoholic, self-abusive, vegan, pyromaniac ex-circus clown with a talent for vomiting on command and stapling his scrotum to his leg, make sure this is the one:
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Tunisian Revolutionary Rap
May 19, 2011My burgeoning radio career continues. I recently returned from ten days in Tunisia, researching a story on Tunisian rap and its role in the revolution there. (Look for the story in Spin in the coming months.) While I was there, I spoke to my new best friend Marco Werman from PRI’s “The World” about the subject. This post also marks the debut of my considerable, uh, talents as a photographer. The photos below the link were snapped by me with my trusty camera-phone.
PRI’s “The World,” May 18, 2011
Street art in Regueb dedicated to the martyrs who died there in clashes with government forces during the revolution
El General in Sfax
- Lak3y in Bizerte
Graffiti in Sidi Bouzid, about 50 meters from where fruitseller Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire and sparked the Arab Spring uprisings
The 24 Records crew at a cafe in Fouchana City, near Tunis.
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Osama & America (and me)
May 3, 2011
PRI’s “The World” recently interviewed me about the immediate impact of Osama Bin Laden’s death on the American psyche. Why me? Not sure. Since the only other person interviewed for the piece is Lawrence Wright, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer and author of what is perhaps THE book on Bin Laden and 9/11, The Looming Tower, I can only assume they needed the co-author of Steve-O’s memoir to lend some gravitas to the story. Anyway, I tried my best not to sound like an idiot.
“The Meaning of Bin Laden for America,” PRI’s “The World,” May 2, 2011
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