• Music

    Folk Music

    The Timeless, Timely Folk Novel: On Writing Fiction Influenced by Folk Songs

    Seán Hewitt Explores Folk's Constant, Changing Repository of Stories

     
    By Seán Hewitt  April 15, 2025
    Aging

    Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging

    By Douglas J. Penick  April 3, 2025
    The Hub

    These are the things that are getting us through this week.

    By Brittany Allen  March 28, 2025
    Fashion

    Bold and Boundary-Pushing: How to Dress Like David Bowie

    By Natalie Hammond  March 26, 2025
    Fan Culture

    “Be Faithful, Steady, and True.” What K-Pop Taught Me About My Korean-American Identity

    By Giaae Kwon  March 26, 2025
    Songwriting

    Punk, Poet, Prophet: In Praise of the Late, Great Shane MacGowan

    By Ed Simon  March 17, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    On The Self

    To Run With Music is to Encounter Yourself With Every Step

    By Ben Ratliff  March 17, 2025
    Opera

    Musical Storytelling: Librettist Gene Scheer On Transforming Novels Into Operas

    By Viviana Freyer  March 17, 2025
    Singer Songwriters

    “For Your Own Damn Good.” How Alanis Morissette Gave a Voice to Her Fans’ Struggles

    By Megan Volpert  March 10, 2025
    Fascism

    Rewatching The Sound of Music in the Age of Tradwives, Trump, and American Fascism

    Meredith Hambrock on Women’s Ambition, Nazism, and Patriarchy on the 60th Anniversary of a Classic Film

    By Meredith Hambrock  April 9, 2025
    Legends

    Dear Jimi Hendrix: A Letter, in Gratitude, From Jeffery Renard Allen

    By Jeffery Renard Allen  March 5, 2025
    Nonfiction

    From Bowie to Baseball to Bitcoin: Ten Nonfiction Books to Check Out in March

    By Literary Hub  February 28, 2025
    In Conversation

    Paul Lisicky on Joni Mitchell, Anti-Memoirs, and How Songwriting Influences His Nonfiction

    By Emma Copley Eisenberg  February 24, 2025
    Music history

    How Little Richard Brought Black and Queer Culture to American Airwaves

    Jon Savage on the Emergence of a New and Revolutionary Form of Rock and Roll in the 1950s

    By Jon Savage  February 21, 2025
    Music history

    From the Margins to the Mainstream: How the Synthesizer Conquered American Music

    By David Hajdu  February 14, 2025
    The Hub

    Want to win Leonard Cohen’s “magic writing cap?”

    By Brittany Allen  February 4, 2025
    Music history

    “I Immediately Began to Weep.” How “Both Sides Now” Made Joni Mitchell a Superstar

    By Henry Alford  January 21, 2025
    Music history

    A Musical Divorce: How Money Problems and a Bad Manager Tore the Beatles Apart

    Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair on the Protracted End of a Band That Transformed Rock and Roll Forever

    By Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair  December 13, 2024
    Music Writing

    Listening To Africa: Three African Writers Discuss the History and Future of African Music

    By Literary Hub  December 5, 2024
    Inspiration

    Contemporary Poets Respond (in Verse) to Taylor Swift

    By Kristie Frederick Daugherty  December 4, 2024
    Theater

    How Stephen Sondheim Brought Neo-Impressionism to the Stage

    By Richard Schoch  November 19, 2024
    Musicians

    How a Young Michael Stipe Found Creative Camaraderie in Art School

    Peter Ames Carlin on the R.E.M. Frontman’s Days Studying Painting, Drawing and Photography at the University of Georgia

    By Peter Ames Carlin  November 5, 2024
    The Hub

    Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan accidentally visited the world’s largest publishing trade fair.

    By James Folta  October 24, 2024
    The Hub

    On the enduring popularity—and appropriation—of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

    By Brittany Allen  October 22, 2024
    Wildfires

    The Best Story Collection About California Wildfires Isn’t a Book—It’s a Brand-New Record 

    By Rebecca Worby  March 7, 2025
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