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His dense interrogation of the album traces its roots through punk back to Ray Charles and Burt Bacharach

But it's equally about the importance of making creativity part of your life every day

“How Music Works is a buoyant hybrid of social history

Like Patti Smith's Just Kids

Mutations: The Many Strange Faces Of Hardcore Punk the rolling stones is a gruesomeInaugural pick for the Pitchfork Book Club GQ's One of the Best Books to Read Right Now How can so many people pledge allegiance to punk, something with no fixed identity? Depending on who and where you are, punk can be an outlet, excuse, lifestyle, escapism, conversation, community, ideology, sales category, social movement, punishable offense, badge of authenticity, reason to drink beer forever, or an aesthetic of belligerent incompetence. And if