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Sarah Palin's Impressively Incoherent 'Duck Dynasty' Comments
I miss Sarah Palin. I was bummed when she decided not to run for president the last time around. It would have been hard to find a challenger to Barack Obama less funn... | More »December 19, 2:35 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Fricke's Picks: 2013's Best Reissues From Under the Radar
As rock & roll gets older, there is more history to examine, re-evaluate and (of course) reissue. What follows is more of this year's bounty of archival relea... | More »December 19, 1:25 PM ET| David Fricke -
The Rumored Chase-Madoff Settlement Is Another Bad Joke
Just under two months ago, when the $13 billion settlement for JP Morgan Chase was coming down the chute, word leaked out that that the deal was no sure thing. Among o... | More »December 16, 3:05 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Lurid Subprime Scams Unveiled in Long-Running Fraud Trial
Lost amid the hoopla over JP Morgan Chase's record-setting $13 billion settlement this fall was news of another monster court resolution – a $2.46 billion j... | More »December 12, 4:20 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Joey Ramone's First 45 and Robert Wyatt's Lost Hendrix Session
In 1967, 16-year-old Jeff Hyman of Queens, New York was nearly a decade away from inventing punk rock as Joey Ramone. He was already making records. In the late winter... | More »December 6, 4:10 PM ET| David Fricke -
Another Batch of Wall Street Villains Freed on Technicality
I love covering trials, which is one reason I've been a little sad since switching over to the Wall Street beat: Few of the bad guys in this world ever even get i... | More »December 4, 5:10 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Fricke's Picks Radio: Beck, the Blues and Television in Brooklyn
Just as early-winter weather hit New York City, I landed in Buenos Aires, Argentina for an event celebrating the 15th anniversary of that country's successful and... | More »December 2, 12:40 PM ET| David Fricke -
Beck's Long Road to 'Morning Phase'
The flashbacks come at high speed as soon as Beck hits the stage in an airplane-hangar-like hall at Technopolis, a science-and-amusement park in Buenos Aires, Argentin... | More »November 21, 12:10 PM ET| David Fricke -
The Winners of the 'Chase Twitter Fail' Haiku Contest
Last week, I ran a quick post in this space ("Chase's Twitter Gambit Devolves into All-Time PR Fiasco") on the epic Twitter fail that was JP Morgan Chase's p... | More »November 19, 2:30 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Chase's Twitter Gambit Devolves into All-Time PR Fiasco
I almost couldn't believe it when I heard that JP Morgan Chase was going to do a live Twitter Q&A with the public – you know, all those people around th... | More »November 15, 1:30 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Campaign 2016: The Dumb Season Starts Early
Thanks in part to a Beltway gossip network that loves chattering about the Clintons and just can't wait until 2016, and thanks in part to a punditocracy that is p... | More »November 13, 2:20 PM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Fricke's Picks Radio: Magic and Loss With Lou Reed and Young Iceland
It has been a weird, cool, grim month — a feast of New York gigs by, among others, Steely Dan, Pearl Jam and the cantankerous Afro-jazz dynamo Ginger Baker; the ... | More »November 8, 1:50 PM ET| David Fricke -
Searching For the Next Big Local Thing at Iceland Airwaves
Like all politics, Iceland Airwaves is, first and foremost, local – an expression of homegrown musical pride and enterprise, compressed into a walking-distance a... | More »November 7, 1:15 PM ET| David Fricke -
Chase Isn't the Only Bank in Trouble
I've been away for weeks now on a non-financial assignment (we have something unusual coming out in Rolling Stone in a few weeks) so I've fallen behind on so... | More »November 5, 12:55 PM ET| Matt Taibbi
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