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Music

Celebrity

Elissa Sloan and Jennifer Banash on Celebrity, Myth, and Fiction

The Authors of Two New Books on Fame and Its Discontents Talk 21st-Century Culture

 
By Literary Hub  March 21, 2023
Country Music

When Johnny Cash Kissed Me: How the Country Star Changed My Life

By Louisa Young  March 10, 2023
Craft

How a Middle School Piano Lesson Helped Me Write My Book

By Ilyon Woo  March 6, 2023
Rock and Roll

How Bob Dylan Became a Counterculture Icon

By Aaron J. Leonard  February 27, 2023
The History of Literature

James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

By History of Literature  February 21, 2023
Black Music

“A Plethora of Answers.” Black Music as Nourishment and Inspiration

By Janelle M. Williams  February 15, 2023
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Keen On

H. Samy Alim Celebrates Hip Hop on its 50th Birthday

By Keen On  February 14, 2023
The Hub

Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy will be publishing a book about his 50 favorite songs.

By Jonny Diamond  February 9, 2023
Remembrances

Tom Verlaine was the Strand’s Best Customer

By Colin Groundwater  February 7, 2023
Christianity

The Gift of Holy Tongues: On Being the Bass Player for Evangelism

“We learned to see ourselves as the lone heroes of our own epic dramas.”

By Matthew McNaught  March 15, 2023
The Hub

The new Daisy Jones & the Six trailer reveals one of 24 (!) original songs.

By Eliza Smith  January 25, 2023
The Hub

The boygenius book club: 48 books the indie rockers think you should read.

By Emily Temple  January 23, 2023
The Hub

Phoebe Bridgers and the Boygenius gang are huge book nerds.

By Jonny Diamond  January 20, 2023
Singer Songwriters

Singer-Songwriter Margo Price on Finding Truth and Joy in Writing a Memoir

Maggie Smith Talks to the Author of Maybe We'll Make It

By Maggie Smith  January 12, 2023
Songwriting

George Saunders on His First Love: Songwriting

By Mike Errico  January 9, 2023
Music Writing

“The Song Found Me.” An Oral History of Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly”

By Marc Myers  December 14, 2022
Rock and Roll

How Paul McCartney Dispelled the Myth of His Own Death

By Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair  December 13, 2022
Music Writing

How CokeMachineGlow.com Defined a Decade of Music Writing

Clayton Purdom on the Enduring Afterlife of the Old, Weird Internet

By Clayton Purdom  December 12, 2022
In Conversation

Cultural Geography and Mutual Enthusiasm: A Late Conversation with Stephen Sondheim

By D.T. Max  December 6, 2022
Rock and Roll

Kurt Cobain Talks to College Radio About Moving Beyond Grunge… and Seattle

By Kurt Cobain  November 30, 2022
Behind the Mic

The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan, Read by a Full Cast

By Behind the Mic   November 28, 2022
The Hub

Fans aren’t happy about their $600 autopen-signed copies of Bob Dylan’s new book.

By Jonny Diamond  November 21, 2022
Pop Music

A Poetic F*ck-You: Behind the Scenes of Fleetwood Mac’s Chart-Topping “Dreams”

By Tom Breihan  November 21, 2022
Miami Book Fair

Lenny Kaye’s Insider Take on the Music That Rocked the 20th Century

By The Virtual Book Channel  November 21, 2022
The Hub

The great Dee Snider of Twisted Sister is writing a novel about toxic masculinity.

By Jonny Diamond  January 27, 2023
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