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Happy “New Year’s Day”! How U2 Created Their Breakout Hit
Love them or loathe them, U2 never sounded more urgent. But until nearly the moment Bono stepped up to the mic, he didn’t even know what the song was…
 • Seth Lorinczi
Radio, Radio: Rekindling the Thrill of Discovery, and a Sneak Preview for 2026
When I was a kid, my clock radio was everything: A time-travel machine and a lifeline. But when I took it apart, I killed it. Here are some stories I'll…
 • Seth Lorinczi
Happy Birthday, "Damaged." How Black Flag's Debut Met Its Match in the Sony Walkman
When Black Flag’s first album dropped 44 years ago, the Walkman had just hit. Has there been a better pairing of medium and message since?
 • Seth Lorinczi
Back to the Future: The All-Too Brief Heyday of the ‘60s Revival Scene
If you were edgy in the ‘80s (but leery of punk or goth) there was an alternative: The ‘60s revival. For a brief moment, the mods and trippers and beat…
 • Seth Lorinczi
Revisiting Erik Satie's Dissociative Genius Through Patricia Escudero's Lost Synth Odyssey
The composer for people who don’t like classical, Erik Satie always sounded out of time. But 40 years ago, when an elusive keyboardist reinterpreted his…
 • Seth Lorinczi

punk

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Radio, Radio: Rekindling the Thrill of Discovery, and a Sneak Preview for 2026
When I was a kid, my clock radio was everything: A time-travel machine and a lifeline. But when I took it apart, I killed it. Here are some stories I'll…
 • Seth Lorinczi
Happy Birthday, "Damaged." How Black Flag's Debut Met Its Match in the Sony Walkman
When Black Flag’s first album dropped 44 years ago, the Walkman had just hit. Has there been a better pairing of medium and message since?
 • Seth Lorinczi
Back to the Future: The All-Too Brief Heyday of the ‘60s Revival Scene
If you were edgy in the ‘80s (but leery of punk or goth) there was an alternative: The ‘60s revival. For a brief moment, the mods and trippers and beat…
 • Seth Lorinczi

psychedelics

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We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Us
The election revealed a lot—maybe too much. But among all the cheering and gloating there's one group I never expected to see celebrating: The…
 • Seth Lorinczi
The Night MDMA Saved My Life
As my wife and I careened towards divorce, our therapist suggested we try MDMA. I couldn't have known it, but nothing would ever be the same again.
 • Seth Lorinczi
Coming Out
When I first wrote about my experience of psychedelic therapy, I feared I’d be shunned, or worse. What it inspired instead was an unexpected thread of…
 • Seth Lorinczi

ancestral transmissions

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Dispatches From the Fringe
Dispatches From the Fringe
Untold stories about the unheard music: Punk, hardcore, ’60s rock, psychedelia and beyond. Words in The Guardian, Narratively, Maggot Brain and elsewhere.
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