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From Stephen Elliott
The album was the warm yellow window of someone else’s house as you walk by on a cold night. Listening to it was the feeling you get when you look into this stranger’s window and wish you lived there.
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Whether writing about Mozart or Björk, punk rock or opera, Alex Ross urges readers to search for the moments when the familiar becomes strange. 
How I Became a Music Critic:
At age 19, I was assigned to review Bob Dylan in concert, despite the fact that I had very little sense of who Bob Dylan was. I was doing a summer internship at my hometown paper, and the regular critic had fallen ill.
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Chances are you don’t know who John Craigie is. But rest assured, John Craigie wants to know you.
“As it is, it’ll get drowned out by a different kind of clamour, one that perhaps has less to do with the music (Bob) Dylan now makes than with the baby boomers’ refusal to let go of popular culture.”
John Wesley Harding says Alexis Petridis has written the best piece on Bob Dylan in ages.
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The de Young Museum in San Francisco is holding Andy Warhol tryouts for Warhol Live. Do you have to do everything he did? Do you gots to “interview” Steven Spielberg on a bed? Must you have annoyingly advertised exhibitions in London?