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Annie Zaleski (page 9)

Annie Zaleski is a Cleveland-based journalist who writes regularly for The A.V. Club, and has also been published by Rolling Stone, Vulture, RBMA, Thrillist and Spin.

Lizz Winstead (AP/Charles Sykes)

“It’s really terrifying”: Lizz Winstead on stealth antiabortion laws and fighting politicians in “their last grasp of hanging on to unearned power”

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Michael Stipe in the video for R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion"

R.E.M.’s leap of faith: 25 years later, every curveball on “Out of Time” makes perfect sense

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Taylor Swift with her 2016 Grammy awards (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)

Taylor Swift is everything that’s wrong with the Grammys and the music industry: Sanitized, self-congratulatory and safe

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Jon Cryer in "Pretty in Pink" (Paramount Pictures)

Why “Pretty in Pink” endures: John Hughes’ classic is more than just another teen movie

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Grant-Lee Phillips (grantleephillips.com)

“Gilmore Girls” town troubadour Grant-Lee Phillips will return to Stars Hollow: “It was such a subversive show”

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Coldplay (AP/Jack Plunkett)

How Coldplay became cool: Haters keep saying they’re too soft, too earnest, too dorky — and they still don’t care

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Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders (AP/Reuters/Salon)

Bernie bros, stop this meme: Your dumb joke about Hillary’s music taste isn’t funny — it’s predictably sexist

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Tori Amos

“Boys for Pele” turns 20: Revisiting the year when Tori Amos truly came into her own

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Savages (Colin Lane)

On life, death and love, Savages offer no easy answers: “To keep the ambiguity and the tension has been an intention”

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Jeff Bridges as The Dude, in "The Big Lebowski" (Gramercy Pictures)

Wow, you hate the f**king Eagles: When uncool celebrities die, jerks just can’t help themselves

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(Reuters/Leonhard Foeger)

A David Bowie for every mood: From “Space Oddity” to his farewell “Blackstar,” Bowie’s shape-shifting always felt right

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(AP/Reuters/Arben Celi/RTNKabik/Owen Sweeney)

Guns n’ Roses reuniting, all grown up: How trading rock debauchery and drama for stability and unity will pay off

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Scott Miller (loudfamily.com)

The lost pop genius of Scott Miller: “Whatever makes you fall in love with a pop song … he did that”

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(Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

“This is why people are panicking here”: Björk takes on an “extreme right-wing redneck government” to preserve Iceland’s open spaces

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(Reuters/Ethan Miller)

Trent Reznor was robbed: Nine Inch Nails’ Rock Hall snub proves electronic music still doesn’t get respect

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-708397p1.html'>TDC Photography</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

“Come from nothing, blow up and die”: Reflections on Scott Weiland dig into the self-destructive rock star myth

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(AP/Jim Ross)

Playing by Johnny Marr’s rules: “I love living in the modern world, but I just don’t accept a laptop as being a band member”

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(NBC)

Stop hating on Christmas music: The only thing more predictable than yet another Wham! cover is the backlash

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(AP/Charles Sykes)

Free Kesha now: Sony is forcing her to work with her alleged abuser — or she doesn’t work at all

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Grimes (Barry Brecheisen/Invision/AP)

Grimes isn’t a novelty act: Maybe we’ll see more female producers when we stop treating them like kooky freaks

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(YouTube/AdeleVEVO)

The Adele factor: What the phenomenal success of “Hello” could mean for Apple Music, Spotify and good old-fashioned cd sales

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(Reuters/Scott Morgan)

The Hillary and Katy power alliance: Their savvy blend of pop and politics could be a game-changer for both

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(Warner Bros.)

The genius of “Gilmore Girls”: When your writing is this good, you can always go home again — even to Stars Hollow

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Kristin Hersh

“No one can live with this much pain and anger, it’s gonna kill me”: Throwing Muses’ Kristin Hersh on Vic Chesnutt’s suicide, PTSD and why songwriters are “pretty broken”

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