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Craft Recordings is thrilled to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Violent Femmes’ 1983 self-titled debut with a special reissue of the seminal cult classic.

Guitarist Popa Chubby has just released a new album, Live at G. Bluey's Juke Joint NYC, which was recorded live with no overdubs or audio fixes after the fact. In addition to Chubby originals, the album includes covers of songs by the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young and Tom Waits.

The indie rock culture wars are finally over. That's the only real conclusion you can draw when indie bands win Grammys and underground music publications routinely give their most glowing reviews to Top 40 pop stars.

Please join us for a celebration of the first publications from Winter Editions, a new small press recently founded by Matvei Yankelevich. Richard Hell, Garth Graeper, Marina Tëmkina, and Emily Simon will read from their recent Winter Editions books, and Lydia Cortes and Peter Bushyeager will re...

When you see a reference to Marcia Resnick, it’s most likely as a photographer, which she is. 

'The Complete Budokan' comprises two 1978 Tokyo shows which were part of Dylan's first international performances since 1966.

Tennis star John McEnroe married Scandal rockstar Patty Smyth in 1997, using the Oscars as a distraction to keep their Hawaii ceremony secret.

The massive new epic Bob Dylan project called "Mixing Up the Medicine" is getting a preview this Friday in the Hamptons. No one has yet seen the 608 book coming from Callaway Editions so the Friday event has taken on an air of excitement. Nicholas Callaway says the book -- approved and encoura

The title of Richard Hell’s new book of poems, What Just Happened, can be taken in several ways. It could be referring to some very recent occurrence, or it could be pointing to an event that appears to lack all cause or reason. With the addition of a question mark, which though absent may be implied, “What Just Happened?” becomes an expression of shock or wonder or puzzlement.

The esthetic value of risk in the arts can be something of an unknown quantity.Writers are often lauded for the creative liberties they might take, such as when they sensitively