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Books How to Live By Henry Alford (Twelve Books) I am averse to advice books. Don’t tell me How to Live — that’s why I have an autonomic nervous system! But Henry...

Rock The Bike

Pop stars and big cars have long retained a powerful hold on the hearts of impressionable music fans. Each glitzy, each sexy, each high maintenance and each photogenic, they’ve...

We Don't Stop

If the contemporary struggle for a better world has a soundtrack, it surely features the music of Michael Franti. To Franti, music and activism are one and the same — his albums,...

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life

Whether your personal philosophy on music’s momentousness meshes best with Friedrich Nietzsche (“Without music, life would be an error”) or Mick Jagger (“It’s...