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A new study says today's writers are influenced by authors of the present, not the past

New album: Here I Am Artist: Successful Failures Label: FDR Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5 True rock and roll has all but disappeared from the mainstream, but as the super hero with the “SF” logo on the front cover swoops in to right some wrong,...

For a guy who enjoys music and loves lists, the marriage was a natural. When Rolling Stone magazine re-released its 2003 classic "500 Best Albums of All Time," I had to have a copy. This was the kind of book was destined to be on a shelf somewhere in my beloved mancave.

You can't scientifically measure whether a music scene is going through what some might call a "heyday." But there are signs. Indicators. And some are too big to ignore.

My first visit to Boston was in 1994 to see a Green Day concert put on by WFNX. It was just a little road trip...

Below, find 12 fresh songs currently on high rotation in EW’s music department — and stream them through our Spotify account.

San Diego Derby Dolls “put the ‘roll’ in ‘rock and roll.’” “Roller derby puts the ‘roll’ in ‘rock and roll,’” says Mishey Moreno of the Touchies , which’ll play the May 12 roller derby halftime show when the San Diego Derby Dolls all-star team, the Wildfires, battle the L.A. Ri-Ettes at the Del Mar Fairgrounds.

Album, of course. - Celebrities, Omahans, and other well-known folks think back and remember their initial music purchases.

A bit of Olympic news, courtesy of David Aldridge of NBA.com : Dwyane Wade sounded slightly less than 100-percent certain he'll be in London no matter what, even after accepting the invite to what would be his third Olympics after being prodded by his 2008 Beijing teammates ("Kobe was like, 'if my old self is playing, you can,'" Wade said—and I'm sure Kobe said "self" there, aren't you?) into ...

A Nova Scotia student at the centre of a controversy about religion and public schools will have the right to wear a shirt with the message: "Life is wasted without Jesus."

If there's a theme this week, it's outsiders, whether that means contemporary artists working at the fringes of the club scene or forgotten musicians from the 1970s. Probably not coincidentally, all five records are also slow burners...