• Music

    Rock'n'roll

    Ozzy, Mötley, Poison… On the Sacred Role of the Hair Metal Ballad

    By Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock  March 17, 2021
    The Hub

    Listen to a new song inspired by Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer.

    By Emily Temple  March 16, 2021
    Afrofuturism

    Women Who Fly: Talking to Nona Hendryx About Afrofuturist Histories

    By Emily Lordi  March 16, 2021
    Singer Songwriters

    How One of My Favorite Songwriters Came Along and Saved My Novel

    By Don Lee  March 15, 2021
    Celebrity

    When I Lived Across the Hall From Sid Vicious

    By Donna Florio  March 9, 2021
    The Hub

    An audio deepfake of Gucci Mane can now read you classic books.

    By Walker Caplan  March 4, 2021
    Music history

    Like a Tidal Wave: Tracing the Inescapable Explosion of
    Latin Music

    By Leila Cobo  March 4, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Sanford Biggers on the Unlikely Kinship Between Hip Hop and Quilting

    By The Quarantine Tapes  February 26, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Alicia Hall Moran on the Lessons of Toni Morrison

    By The Quarantine Tapes  February 24, 2021
    Music history

    The Woman Who Preserved Zora Neale Hurston’s Musical Legacy

    By Daphne A. Brooks  February 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Haruki Murakami hosted a bossa nova jam over the weekend—and you can watch it online now.

    By Walker Caplan  February 16, 2021
    The Hub

    Listen to the sound of an 18,000-year-old conch shell.

    By Walker Caplan  February 11, 2021
    Keen On

    Are We Starving Our Brains by Going Digital?

    By Keen On  February 11, 2021
    Lit Hub Radio

    Looking to Get Lost by Peter Guralnick, Read by Jim Meskimen

    By Behind the Mic   February 1, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Eugenio Ampudia on His ‘Concert for the Biocene’

    By The Quarantine Tapes  January 29, 2021
    The Hub

    Arlo Parks’s much-anticipated debut album was inspired by the work of Zadie Smith.

    By Walker Caplan  January 28, 2021
    Folk Music

    Voices of the People: On Folk Music as a Living Art Form

    By Ellen Harper  January 27, 2021
    The Hub

    Upgrade your writing soundtrack with Patricia Highsmith’s favorite songs.

    By Emily Temple  January 15, 2021
    The Hub

    Yusuf/Cat Stevens is turning his song “Peace Train” into a children’s book.

    By Walker Caplan  January 13, 2021
    The Hub

    Who is going to publish Lizzo’s “sci-fi fantasy romance” novel?

    By Emily Temple  January 13, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Silences So Deep by John Luther Adams, Read by Jim Meskimen

    By Behind the Mic   January 13, 2021
    Singing

    What It’s Like to Learn to Sing in Your Fifties

    By Tom Vanderbilt  January 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Penguin Random House and Jay-Z’s Roc Nation have launched a new imprint.

    By Rasheeda Saka  December 15, 2020
    Classical Music

    How Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Came to Compose His First Symphony

    By Jan Swafford  December 15, 2020
    Country Music

    On the Willie Nelson Country-Pop Crossover That Changed Everything

    By Michaelangelo Matos  December 14, 2020
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