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Lost Tapes From Major Musicians Are Out There. These Guys Find Them.
For decades, recordings left at studios have languished in storage rooms and basements. Master Tape Rescue, a company of two…
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A New Chapter for Irish Historians’ ‘Saddest Book’
A globe-spanning research project has turned the catalog of a public archive destroyed in Ireland’s civil war into a model…
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What Are the Largest Wildfires in U.S. History?
The Smokehouse Creek fire in the Texas Panhandle is now one of the largest fires the country has faced. Here…
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Murder Trial Lays Bare a Hip-Hop Pioneer’s Double Life
In the years before his death, the Run-DMC D.J. Jam Master Jay secretly turned to the drug trade to keep…
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Kelvin Kiptum, Marathon World Record-Holder, Dies at 24
Kiptum, who came tantalizingly close last year to breaching the mythical two-hour barrier in the marathon, was killed in a…
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Business
See How Hot 2023 Was in Two Charts. Hint: Record Hot.
Month after month, global temperatures didn’t just break records, they smashed them. This year could be even warmer.
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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Strata-East Records
This label founded in 1971 gave Afrocentric and psychedelic jazz a home, and found a breakout hit with Gil Scott-Heron…
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Les McCann, Pianist, Singer and Soul Jazz Pioneer, Dies at 88
He released more than 50 albums but had his greatest commercial success with “Compared to What,” a recording that came…
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Ken MacKenzie, a Rare Winner on the 1962 Mets, Dies at 89
Ken MacKenzie, a left-handed reliever who was the only pitcher with a winning record on the famously hapless 1962 New…
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