CounterPunch
CounterPunch is a magazine published in the United States 10 times a year that covers politics and other topics in a manner its editors describe as "muckraking with a radical attitude" It is also available online.
16 articles
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The Clash, Joe Strummer: Joe Strummer is Dead; Long Live the Clash!
Obituary by Gavin Martin, CounterPunch, 24 December 2002
THE CHRISTMAS CARD from Joe Strummer and family arrived by email on Sunday night, a seasonal greeting accompanied by Joe's colourful illustration of a fantasy ...
Memoir by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 26 December 2006
LATE LAST NIGHT, or more accurately early this morning doing my final email check, I noticed the headline: "James Brown hospitalized with pneumonia." I immediately ...
Review by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 5 November 2007
ON REVIVAL (Fantasy Records), John Fogerty comes to terms with and maybe even makes peace with his past. In doing so he's created one of ...
Levon Helm: The Return of Levon Helm
Comment by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 12 November 2007
THE FIRST TIME most people heard Levon Helm sing was way back in 1968 when The Band released Music From Big Pink. ...
Solomon Burke: Brother Solomon Burke
Obituary by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 11 October 2010
THE ROLLING STONES introduced me to Solomon Burke when they covered his classic, 'Everybody Needs Somebody To Love', on their third album, released in the ...
Bruce Springsteen: Wrecking Ball
Review by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 24 February 2012
IN 1944, WRITING a script for a radio show Woody Guthrie wrote: "I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any ...
Van Morrison: Born To Sing: No Plan B
Review by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 12 October 2012
FOR VAN MORRISON, first and foremost, it's always been about the music, and finding that magic place inside the music that takes you someplace else, ...
George Jones: Farewell to the King of Heartbreak
Retrospective by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 26 April 2013
THIS MORNING while finishing my first cup of coffee and checking my Facebook notifications, an email came from a good friend of mine. The title ...
Review by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 27 September 2013
FOR MORE THAN four decades, Garland Jeffreys has been playing, writing, performing, always close to the top, but somehow remaining the invisible man who never ...
The Everly Brothers, Phil Everly: Remembering Phil Everly
Memoir by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 3 January 2014
I PROBABLY FIRST heard the Everly Brothers when I was a real little kid about six or seven, playing in the driveway behind my family's ...
Jackson Browne: Standing in the Breach
Review by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 21 October 2014
IN 1974, JACKSON BROWNE released his third album, his masterpiece Late For The Sky, a record that was brilliantly constructed in every way from the ...
Jackson Browne: Chronicling the Daze Between Washington and Wall Street
Review by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 21 October 2014
IN 1974, JACKSON Browne released his third album, his masterpiece Late For The Sky, a record that was brilliantly constructed in every way from the ...
Book Review by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 3 July 2015
THIS YEAR IS the 50th Anniversary of Bob Dylan armed with an electric guitar, taking the stage at the Newport Folk Festival, backed by a ...
Book Review by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 26 February 2016
SAM PHILLIPS, the man behind Sun Records was easily one of the most important figures in the history of American popular music. ...
Merle Haggard: a Rebel To The End
Obituary by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 8 April 2016
I GUESS IT WAS sometime in early 1969, in some Morningside Heights apartment, when a friend sang a song about a death row prisoner on ...
Ian and Sylvia, Tom Russell: Tom Russell: Folk Hotel/Play One More – The Songs of Ian & Sylvia
Review by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 29 September 2017
IT WOULD BE easy to say that Tom Russell's new album Folk Hotel (Frontera Records) is a tribute to the Greenwich Village folk music scene ...
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