Charles Murray

Oct 4, 2024 | quillette.com | Ari Gandsman |Meghan Murphy |Charles Murray |Aaron Sarin

To scandalise is a right, to be scandalised is a pleasure,and those who refuse to be scandalised are moralists. ~Pier Paolo Pasolini When Steve Albini died of a heart attack earlier this year at the age of 61, the most common word used to describe him in his obituaries was “uncompromising.” He was one of the loudest and fiercest voices of the American punk and independent rock underground of the 1980s and ’90s.

Oct 2, 2024 | loudersound.com | Charles Murray

When Stevie Ray Vaughan died at 35 in a 1990 helicopter crash, moments after participating in a triumphant, concert-closing jam with Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray and his elder brother Jimmie Vaughan, it was a mark of the love and respect in which he was held by the blues community that Guy and John Lee Hooker dedicated their next albums to his memory.