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#12: Patti Smith, ‘Horses’ The record’s beauty is only enhanced by the push-pull interplay Smith has with her band, which combines the loose deftness of a late-night bar act with the snarling fury of any safety-pin-studded combo. Full list: rollingstone.com/music/music-li…

The Monkees - I'm a Believer

Happy Birthday Big Joe Turner 🎶“Shake, Rattle and Roll”

Mr @SHAQ needs to start a school program where all pro Athletes and Entertainers go through to learn Human Resources and Public Relations A @SHAQ Degree to learn how to engage with their fanbase

Mudhoney You Got It Reading Festival 1992

Etta James sang with every ounce of her soul.

10,000 Maniacs' MTV Unplugged set arrived at a time when poetic musings, progressive politics, and gentle, precise jangle-pop could excite as much passion as the fury and mess of grunge pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

What a wonderful photo! ⚡👌 House of Pain, L7, and the Beastie Boys, May 1992 📸 unknown #punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #rap #hiphop #l7 #beastieboys #houseofpain #history #punkrockhistory

Bask in the haunting glory of the isolated vocals at the end of the Beach Boys' 'God Only Knows' (📹 via yt/alexlennon1983)

Iggy Pop - The Passenger

Esquire: 60 Years Since The Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds': A Classic Brian Wilson Interview From the Esquire Archive – esquire.com/uk/culture/a70…

Yesssssssssss. He @thegodrakim and KRS @IAmKRSOne shaped my word style immensely

Three Quarters of Olympia Minus the Servant, 1982

Patti Smith, 1970s

Happy 78th, Brian Eno. 1974 photo by Joe Gaffney.

Paul McCartney explains why he doesn't do selfies with fans. "If I meet someone and they're reaching for their phone, I say: 'I'm sorry, I don't do pictures.' And that is radical these days... "It's important to me... the minute I get above myself and start thinking I'm something else... I won't like me. It's very important for me to be sort of just me. "So I will say, 'I don't want to do the photos.' And they will say, 'Why?' And I'll say, 'Well, I'll tell you why.' And I go into this long-winded explanation of down on the south coast of France, Saint-Tropez, there's a guy on the beachfront who's got a monkey, and you pay to have your photo taken with the monkey. 'I really do not want to feel like that monkey. And when I take a picture with you, I do feel like him. I'm not me. I'm suddenly something else.'" (via @restisents) 📸: Mary McCartney

📸 Jimi Hendrix and his father Al Hendrix, 1968.

Happy 60th birthday to the legendary Raphael Saadiq 🎈

Clarence Carter, the blind Southern soul star whose songs were often as emotionally profound as they were delightfully bawdy, died Thursday, May 14. He was 90. rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…