HeyJaredSanjoy Narayan
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- Sep 25, 2026
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Right in the feels: Why music gives us ‘chills’ (opens the original)
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One of the many luxuries of my superannuated life is the bountiful gift of time, specifically the four or five hours a day (yes!) I can happily burn through doing nothing but listening to music. Part of it is pure unadulterated passion, part is the joyful occupational “hazard” of writing this column. Lately, however, these listening sessions have also been driven by a bit of scientific research. I’ve been diving into a 715-song playlist known to researchers as the “chill corpus”. Curated by Remi
Long live the King of Chicago: Sanjoy Narayan on the legacy of Buddy Guy (opens the original)
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There’s a crackling video I return to on YouTube, whenever modern music begins to feel too sanitised. It is from March 1969, recorded in an abandoned linoleum factory in Staines, England. An intense, young Black man from Louisiana delivers a blistering, high-octane performance of Mary Had a Little Lamb, backed by a line-up of rock royalty: Jack Bruce on bass, Buddy Miles on drums, saxophonists Chris Mercer and Dick Heckstall-Smith. This man isn’t just playing his Fender Stratocaster, he’s wrestl
Soft power: Sanjoy Narayan on the return of The Durutti Column (opens the original)
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In a flat in Manchester in January 1980, Ian Curtis (yes, that Ian Curtis, a few months from becoming post-punk’s most mourned voice at 23) of the band Joy Division sat gluing coarse sandpaper onto record covers. What he and a few others were building, sheet by sheet, was an audacious prank / experiment by the music label Factory Records: the sleeve for The Return of the Durutti Column, the debut album of the band of that name. The Durutti Column was, at the time, essentially made up of one shy,
Let the record show...: Sanjoy Narayan on the new Rolling Stones album, Foreign Tongues (opens the original)
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I have just become a fan of Mick Jagger and his band, The Rolling Stones. How ridiculous does that sound? It’s 2026. Jagger and his mates founded the band in 1962 — 64 years ago — and I’ve been listening to them ardently for more than half a century. Perhaps I should rephrase that. I have become a born-again fan of Jagger, 83. Last month, the Stones released their 25th British studio album, Foreign Tongues, along with the customary blitz of promotional interviews. On talk-show host Conan O’Brien
For the Record is a gripping, sweeping history of music, says Sanjoy Narayan (opens the original)
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Around the middle of the third episode of For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music, I caught myself doing something I don’t normally do while watching a YouTube video. I paused, sat back and wondered: Where will this go next? Not because I was confused, but because I genuinely couldn’t guess. Nine episodes, over 10 hours, four years in the making — and it opens not with a guitar or an ancient instrument but with the Big Bang. Was that a huge act of confidence on the part of its creators (t
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