Features

25 Favorite Features

by The DV Staff

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The Daily Vault has played host to a wide variety of features over the past 25 years, from interviews and concert reviews to book and film reviews, our notorious opinion essays, and our expansive retrospectives and rankings columns. What follows is a somewhat representative but typically eclectic sampling of our favorite features from the past quarter century. Most are single pieces, though in the name of being true to the “favorite” label we’ve also included five features in their entirety: our retrospectives, Darren Paltrowitz’s long-running music news column “Keeping Up,” our rankings feature, “20 Albums That Influenced Me” from our 20th anniversary celebration, and “My Favorite 101 Songs (More Or Less).”

Here are 25 favorite features, presented in chronological order (click on image to see feature):



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Unfashionable, Uncompromising:
A Chat With Porcupine Tree's Richard Barbieri

by Mark Kadzielawa

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Wilco & The Roots Rendezvous At Red Rocks

by Sean McCarthy

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Why The Eagles Suck

by The DV Staff

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What Was An Album?

by Jeff Clutterbuck

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Fame: The New Pop Commodity

by JB

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The Return of Metallica: Looking Forward, Looking Back

by Paul Hanson

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The Real School Of Rock: Jacob Slichter’s
So You Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star

by Jason Warburg

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Two Books For The Price Of One:
Jonathan Gould's Can't Buy Me Love

by Benjamin Ray

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Keeping Up With Darren Paltrowitz

by Darren Paltrowitz

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The DV Gallery O’ Retrospectives

by The DV Staff

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Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse: An Appreciation

by Melanie Love

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Remembering Ronnie Montrose

by Jason Warburg

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Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson: The Daily Vault Interview

by Bruce Rusk

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Benjamin Ray’s The Year That Was

by Benjamin Ray

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Grammys 2014: The Live Blog

by Jeff Clutterbuck

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The DV Rankings

by The DV Staff

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All Things Must Pass: Colin Hanks Documents
The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records

by Pete Crigler

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Trouble Boys Charts the Replacements' Rise and Fall

by Tom Haugen

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Say Hello To Heaven

by Pete Crigler

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Tom Petty: Making Magic

by Jason Warburg

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Celia Cruz: American Musical Legend

by Michael Broyles

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20 Albums That Influenced Me

by The DV Staff

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The High Road: Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit Live

by Jason Warburg


My 101 Favorite Songs (More Or Less)

by The DV Staff

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Natterings: Why Critics Suck And
Are Mostly Wrong, Part I

by Duke Egbert

 

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