Monthly Archives: November 2025

Marcus Garvey (1975), Garvey Ghost (1976) – Burning Spear

Posted on November 30, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Marcus Garvey is the third album by reggae artist Burning Spear, released in 1975 on Fox Records in Jamaica and then internationally on Island Records later in the year. The album is named after the Jamaican National Hero and Rastafari … Continue reading →

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Eugene O’Neill Theatre

Posted on November 29, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Eugene O’Neill Theatre, previously the Forrest Theatre and the Coronet Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 230 West 49th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. The theater was designed by … Continue reading →

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Free Lancing – James Blood Ulmer (1981)

Posted on November 28, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“After cultivating a huge underground reputation both as a sideman in Ornette Coleman‘s Prime Time band and as an increasingly influential musician among the more experimental edges of the New York City punk and noise scenes, James Blood Ulmer was … Continue reading →

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The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck (1939)

Posted on November 27, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel … Continue reading →

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How New York Could Protect Its Street Vendors

Posted on November 26, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Sherif Baioumy – Halal cart in Midtown Manhattan “Street vending isn’t as old as New York City. It’s older. Back when Lower Manhattan was still New Amsterdam, newly arrived immigrants sold food from the backs of pushcarts to make a … Continue reading →

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In 1968, There was Plenty of Great Music New Yorkers Were Thankful For (1968)

Posted on November 25, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Calling it a feast hardly does justice to all the music going down around town last week: give thanks for Thanksgiving and all the students it brings to town to support the likes of Jimi Hendrix, the Jefferson Airplane, Slim … Continue reading →

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Glenn Branca: A Guide to the Symphonies

Posted on November 24, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“To most listeners, composer Glenn Branca is best known for his early engagements with the experimental side of rock history. Back in 1981, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo were two of the guitarists in the orchestra for the premiere of … Continue reading →

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The five greatest guitarists of all time, according to Neil Young

Posted on November 23, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… Telling Guitare et Clavier, ‘When you are able to express yourself and feel good, then you know why you’re playing.’ The magic of Young is that he has expressed himself in myriad ways. From the quietly powerful tenderness of … Continue reading →

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Book Of Dub: From Kingston to the World (2025)

Posted on November 22, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“After about three years in the making, the Book Of Dub, subtitled From Kingston To The World, has been published. Divided into two sections, Dubbin’ Jamaica and Dubbin’ Outernational, this book offers an extensive collection of reviews covering around 250 … Continue reading →

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How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life

Posted on November 21, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Eleven years ago, Paul Lundy was dying a slow, workingman’s death under fluorescent light. For three decades, he had worked in facilities management — an honest trade that ground him down until, in his mid-50s, he had money, an authoritative … Continue reading →

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Rock ‘n’ Roll – John Lennon (1975)

Posted on November 19, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Rock ‘n’ Roll is the fifth and final solo studio album by the English musician John Lennon. Released in February 1975, it is an album of rock and roll songs from the late 1950s and early 1960s as covered by … Continue reading →

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The American Revolution (2025)

Posted on November 18, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

A John Trumbull painting of the death of General Hugh Mercer at the Battle of Princeton in 1777 “The American Revolution is a 2025 television documentary miniseries about the American Revolution directed by Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein. The series … Continue reading →

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Expressway To Your Heart – Soul Survivors, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, Bernadette – Four Tops, etc.

Posted on November 17, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“If you were listening to the radio in late summer of 1967, chances are you’d hear ‘Expressway to Your Heart,’ the great single from the soul group, the Soul Survivors, founded by three white guys who grew up listening to … Continue reading →

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Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury Deliberations

Posted on November 16, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The jurors in the case of The United States of America v. The Sandwich Guy (as Sean Charles Dunn is better known) sized one another up before the final group had even been selected, asking, ‘Did you attend the ‘No … Continue reading →

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Language – Jack Spicer (1965)

Posted on November 15, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Crystal Set #18: “Colored by love and judgment, constructed through a series of unmoored metaphors crossed with appearing-to-be-rational syntax that sheds as slight repetitions accumulate across sets of lines, built to showcase the otherworldliness of syllables simultaneously coalescing and floating … Continue reading →

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Postcards from Virginia Woolf

Posted on November 14, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Virginia Woolf was fascinated by biographical writing, even though she considered it something of a doomed genre. She wrote traditional and imagined biographies, of people and dogs, that experiment with how to recount a life. Her novels ask if, when, … Continue reading →

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America, América: A New History of the New World – Greg Grandin (2025)

Posted on November 13, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

New Republic: What America Can Learn From the Americas “Greg Grandin’s America, América: A New History of the New World, by contrast, is an ambitious effort to get (North) Americans to recognize they share much common heritage with Latin America, … Continue reading →

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Strand Bookstore

Posted on November 12, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Strand Bookstore is an independent bookstore located at 828 Broadway, at the corner of East 12th Street in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, two blocks south of Union Square. There are additional locations at Lincoln … Continue reading →

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Preserving the Past & Sharing It Today

Posted on November 11, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“When Dust-to-Digital began in 1999, the goal was simple: to make it possible for people to hear music they couldn’t easily find anywhere else. Our early releases paired rare recordings with books, photographs, and research so listeners could learn about … Continue reading →

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The Secret of the Unicorn – Tintin (1943)

Posted on November 10, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Secret of the Unicorn (French: Le Secret de La Licorne) is the eleventh volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was serialised daily in Le Soir, Belgium’s leading francophone newspaper, from … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’

Posted on November 9, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Chelsea Hotel on 23rd Street. “Sex. Death. Divinity. Violence. Grief. Money. Family. Art. Defiance. Ecstasy. Transfiguration. Dancing. Destruction. Rock ’n’ roll conjoined to singular visions. They were all essential to ‘Horses,’ Patti Smith’s debut album, which was released on Nov. … Continue reading →

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Fitzcarraldo – Werner Herzog (1982)

Posted on November 8, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Fitzcarraldo (/fɪtskə’raldo/) is a 1982 epic adventure–drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog. The film stars Klaus Kinski as Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, a would-be Irish rubber baron known in Peru as ‘Fitzcarraldo’, who is determined to transport a … Continue reading →

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The Bilas Index: The best 68 men’s basketball teams in 2025-26

Posted on November 7, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Bilastrator doesn’t like to brag. Yet, by now, as a conscious being on this planet, you know that the Bilas Index is the preeminent, reliable and most universally respected indicator and compilation of basketball knowledge and judgment known to … Continue reading →

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About Yesterday’s and Today’s Ezz-Thetics

Posted on November 6, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Fifty years ago, in Switzerland, a little record label was born. Swiss jazz fan Werner X. Uehlinger grew up listening to the music on American armed forces radio in the years after World War II. As he grew older, he … Continue reading →

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From Sultan’s Kitchen to Delhi’s Streets: Ni‘matnāma Lives On

Posted on November 5, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Behind mahogany-finished cabinets and white-tiled walls, in the quiet order of a kitchen in Delhi’s Noida neighborhood, chef Sadaf Hussain is bringing back recipes once served at a sultan’s table. His deft fingers move in a choreography of their own … Continue reading →

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New Left

Posted on November 4, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The New Left was a broad political movement that emerged from the counterculture of the 1960s and continued through the 1970s. It consisted of activists in the Western world who, in reaction to the era’s liberal establishment, campaigned for freer … Continue reading →

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The Roots of Dub

Posted on November 3, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“For such an influential genre, very little is known about dub’s origins and protagonists. Delving into its history is a wonderful, challenging journey into the world of one-off dubplates and dirt-encrusted 45s – the available evidence of its incubation and … Continue reading →

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Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy?

Posted on November 2, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Countries that slide from democracy toward autocracy tend to follow similar patterns. To measure what is happening in the United States, the Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion, with help from scholars who … Continue reading →

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Synth Superheroes Trading Cards

Posted on November 1, 2025 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The musical possibilities offered up by synthesizers are limitless, yet a select few artists intuitively understand how to harness them better than others. In rendering distinctive qualities from their machines – and often being distinctive characters themselves – they attained … Continue reading →

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