• Music

    The Hub

    Remember when the Grateful Dead did a 12-minute freestyle based on “The Raven”?

    By Walker Caplan  October 25, 2021
    Punk

    Finding My Voice Through the Rage of Punk Music

    By Amy Lee Lillard  October 22, 2021
    Thresholds

    Bad Seed Warren Ellis on the Spirituality of Music and Nina Simone’s Chewing Gum

    By Thresholds   October 20, 2021
    Protest

    Call and Response: On the Inextricable History of Music and Black Struggle

    By Veronica Chambers and Jennifer Harlan  October 20, 2021
    Heavy Metal

    Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx on Discovering Hard Rock in the Middle of Idaho

    By Nikki Sixx  October 19, 2021
    Music history

    The Time Jim Morrison Was Arrested Onstage in the Middle of a Show

    By Robby Krieger  October 15, 2021
    Opera

    How Opera Invented the Modern Fan

    By Alison Kinney  October 14, 2021
    Change Lab

    Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda on the Alchemy of Making Music and Art

    By Change Lab  October 14, 2021
    Freeman's

    Joshua Bennett on Fatherhood: “We Do Not Live Forever. But We Do Live On.”

    By Joshua Bennett  October 12, 2021
    Country Music

    Kelefa Sanneh: What Actually is “Country Music”?

    By Kelefa Sanneh  October 8, 2021
    Open Source

    Jan Swafford and Robert Levin on Mozart’s Infectious Genius

    By Open Source  October 8, 2021
    Hip Hop

    Why Kendrick Lamar is the Most Political Rapper in Modern-Day Pop Culture

    By Miles Marshall Lewis  October 7, 2021
    Keen On

    What Do NFTs Have to Do with the Music Industry?

    By Keen On  October 6, 2021
    Music

    A World Outside Time: Pico Iyer on the Deep Pleasure of Handel’s Chorale Music

    By Pico Iyer  September 29, 2021
    The Hub

    Listen to the musical stylings of Shel Silverstein and Johnny Cash.

    By Katie Yee  September 24, 2021
    Singer Songwriters

    Why Blues Singer Bessie Smith’s Bewitching Narratives Remain Eerily Relevant

    By Jackie Kay  September 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Stephen Sondheim is working on a new musical—with David Ives.

    By Walker Caplan  September 16, 2021
    Writing Life

    Some Life Lessons (Read: Humiliations) From Playing Music

    By Emily Itami  September 13, 2021
    The Hub

    Read the love poem that went viral . . . in ancient Greece.

    By Walker Caplan  September 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Pride and Prejudice is becoming an all-female pop musical.

    By Walker Caplan  September 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Alicia Keys is adapting her own song “Girl on Fire” into a book.

    By Walker Caplan  September 1, 2021
    The Hub

    Can you spot the difference between a Halsey lyric and a line of Instapoetry?

    By Vanessa Willoughby  August 27, 2021
    Inspiration

    The Sound of Muses: On Literary Comebacks and the Importance of Listening with Purpose

    By Louis Edwards  August 23, 2021
    Music

    Tales of Bohemian Living with The Lounge Lizards in 1979 New York

    By John Lurie  August 20, 2021
    Singer Songwriters

    One in a Million: Where Were You When You Heard that Aaliyah Died?

    By Kathy Iandoli  August 17, 2021
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