• Music

    Pop Music

    Life After ABBA: One Day in London With Agnetha Fältskog

    Jan Gradvall Sits Down With the Lead Singer of the Iconic Swedish Pop Group

     
    By Jan Gradvall  June 17, 2025
    Travel

    Here’s everything that’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  June 13, 2025
    Creativity

    From Rock Star to Writer: On the Second Careers of Some of Your Favorite Musicians

    By Leila Sales  June 9, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  June 6, 2025
    Illness

    Singing For Last Time: What It’s Like to Lose Your Voice—Forever

    By Greta Morgan  June 5, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  May 30, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Music Writing

    “The Songs Prove That We Were Here”: Ocean Vuong on Sufjan Stevens

    By Ocean Vuong  May 30, 2025
    Music

    Shitholes, USA: Noel and Liam Gallagher On When Oasis Toured America

    By Literary Hub  May 22, 2025
    Travel

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  May 16, 2025
    The Hub

    This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  June 13, 2025
    Social Movements

    How New York City’s Radical Social Movements Gave Rise to Hip-Hop

    By Dean Van Nguyen  May 6, 2025
    The Hub

    Here are the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners.

    By Brittany Allen  May 5, 2025
    The Hub

    Here are the things that are making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  May 2, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s everything that got us through this week.

    By Brittany Allen  April 25, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s everything that’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  April 18, 2025
    Music history

    On “Eleanor Rigby” as a Product of the Combined Genius of John Lennon and Paul McCartney

    By Ian Leslie  April 17, 2025
    Folk Music

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

    By Seán Hewitt  April 15, 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
    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

    Giaae Kwon Explores Stans, Biases and the Joys, and the Pitfalls of Participating in Fandom

    By Giaae Kwon  March 26, 2025
    Songwriting

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

    By Ed Simon  March 17, 2025
    On The Self

    To Run With Music is to Encounter Yourself With Every Step

    By Ben Ratliff  March 17, 2025
    Coming of Age

    On Being a Poor Black Punk and Working at the Strand Bookstore

    By Patrick Dougher  May 9, 2025
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