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: 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 by Jason Warburg |
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Two Books For The Price Of One: 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 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 |
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My 101 Favorite Songs (More Or Less) by The DV Staff |
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Natterings: Why Critics Suck And by Duke Egbert |
