January's Real Life Rock Top 10 is led by "The Affair", as an unexpected moment yields the transformation of a classic American song. List by Greil Marcus.

"This is a dream inside a maelstrom, and the maelstrom comes back." Greil Marcus dives into multiple takes of one song in the new Bob Dylan Bootleg Editions collection.

Think you've heard Lana Del Rey's "Honeymoon"? Listen again. Plus: John Seabrook, Cat Power, Jakob Dylan and more in Greil Marcus's Real Life Rock Top 10.

August in the life of Greil Marcus: French theater goes punk, Johnny Rotten grows up, and a killer soundtrack redeems "True Detective".

Asif Kapadia's "Amy" opens a window onto commitment and loss, a festival takes on hated songs, Jessica Hopper pulls it together and more in Greil Marcus's Real Life Rock Top 10.

Greil Marcus's month in review: Rihanna and the Splash Brothers triumph, while other national idols are called into question.

In this month's Real Life Rock Top 10, War on Women, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and other voices rising above the din.

In this month's edition of his column, Greil Marcus stays in the moment - from a Baltimore club in 1951 to a Minneapolis stage with Sleater-Kinney.

A critic's month that was: D'Angelo, Dylan, Saul Goodman, and L.A.'s storied soundtrack.