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  • October 26, 2023
    So, You’ve Decided to Start Listening to Radiohead in Your Mid-Thirties
    by Kristopher Michael Wood
  • October 11, 2023
    My Inner Monologue When I Listen to Live Jazz
    by Chandler Dean
  • August 17, 2023
    An Open Letter to the Pair of Gen-Z Men in the Northeast Regional Quiet Car Loudly Discussing Pitchfork’s 100 Best Albums of All Time
    by Elizabeth Bastos
  • December 26, 2022
    Fisher-Price Recalls the Deluxe Kick ’n Play Piano Gym for Having Too Many Bops
    by Laura Foody
  • September 7, 2022
    What Kind of Music Do You Like?
    by Sarah Garfinkel and Kerry Elson
  • August 29, 2022
    Famously Misheard Lyrics Americans Must Get Right
    by Jeremy Hooper
  • August 26, 2022
    A Rebuttal to “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” By Me, the Woman Who Wrote the Personal Ad
    by Una LaMarche
  • July 7, 2022
    New Music Is Garbage, and So Is Literacy and Lack of Death by Whooping Cough
    by TJ Dawe
  • June 23, 2022
    Before You Enjoy Your Summer, Here Are Some Minor Budget Cuts for Next Year’s High School Music Program
    by Kurt Zemaitaitis
  • November 18, 2021
    An Oral History of John Philip Sousa’s Band, the Hardest-Partying Eighty-Piece Marching Band Ever
    by Kurt Zemaitaitis
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    by Nick Guadagnino
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    Post-Dinner Interview with a Twelve-Year-Old Who Sat at the Grown-Ups’ Table for the First Time on Thanksgiving
    by Nathaniel Brown
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