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Amanda Petrusich is a contributing writer for Pitchfork. Her work has also appeared at NPR Music.

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Author Interviews

Music Journalist Chronicles The 'Wild Obsessive Hunt' For Rare 78 RPM Records

In Do Not Sell At Any Price, Amanda Petrusich details the extreme measures collectors take in pursuit of rare 78s. "You can still find quite a few of them around at junk shops," she says.

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All Songs Considered

Unwound's Justin Trosper Explains 'Peel Sessions,' Track By Track

In 1998, Unwound was closing in on the height of its powers. Hear the band's hulking, Cubist-punk live sessions from the BBC, available as a bonus LP to the new Empire box set.

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Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder perform during "Bluegrass Underground" at the Cumberland Caverns in 2010.

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Music News

Cumberland Caverns: A Subterranean Concert Venue In Tennessee WPLN

Ever wanted to see Jason Isbell, Shovels & Rope or Billy Joe Shaver 333 feet underground? You'll have to take a hike.

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Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! (left) and Lauren Denitzio of Worriers, whose debut LP Imaginary Life was produced by Grace.

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All Songs Considered

All Songs +1: Laura Jane Grace And Lauren Denitzio On Surviving In Punk

The outspoken leaders of the bands Against Me! and Worriers discuss gender identity in art, being a punk musician in 2015 and the new Worriers album Imaginary Life, which Grace produced.

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Drake performs at Finsbury Park in London, England in June. Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill recently accused Drake of using ghostwriters, spurring the two to release diss tracks aimed at each other.

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The Record

Stakes Is High: Drake Ghostwriting Accusations Matter More Than You Think

With the notion of authorship dispatched as silly and inconsequential, the way has been paved for even greater corporate influence over hip-hop.

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Buddy Guy's latest album is titled Born to Play Guitar.

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Music Interviews

Buddy Guy: 'I Worry About The Future Of Blues Music'

Buddy Guy is the blues, and he's our connection to a genre that's embedded in the history of America. But it's a sound the guitarist fears is fading.

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Large Professor at an event in New York City in April, 2013.

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Microphone Check

Large Professor, Part 1: 'We're Living In The World of Hip-Hop'

One of the foremost architects of New York rap has been decorating this planet since the late '80s.

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Circa 1974: a photo of Vic Firth, the former principal timpanist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a leader among percussion equipment manufacturers.

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Deceptive Cadence

Remembering Vic Firth, An Orchestral — And Entrepreneurial — Legend

He was with the Boston Symphony for 50 years, and his name was also stamped on the sticks of drummers from Buddy Rich to Charlie Watts to Questlove. Firth died Sunday at age 85.

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