• Music

    Reading Lists

    New and Noteworthy Nonfiction You Should Read This December

    By Literary Hub  December 2, 2021
    The Hub

    Red Alert: This library made a Taylor Swift display.

    By Katie Yee  November 30, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Bob Spitz on Writing the Definitive History of the Greatest Rock Band of All Time

    By The Literary Life  November 29, 2021
    The Hub

    Breaking: Alaska teen turns Gilgamesh into rap.

    By Walker Caplan  November 24, 2021
    Folk Music

    How Black Spiritual Songs Gave Rise to New Musical Genres

    By Joseph Horowitz  November 24, 2021
    Conspiracies

    What Bob Dylan Does—Or Doesn’t—Know About the Assassination of JFK

    By Jefferson Morley  November 22, 2021
    Bookstagram

    Amy Long on Why Taylor Swift is the Perfect Vehicle Through Which To Talk About Books

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  November 17, 2021
    Rock'n'roll

    When Young Elvis Met the Legendary B.B. King

    By Daniel de Visé  November 16, 2021
    The Hub

    9 books perfectly summed up with lyrics from Taylor Swift’s Red.

    By Snigdha Koirala  November 12, 2021
    Keen On

    Bob Spitz on the Notorious History of Led Zeppelin

    By Keen On  November 12, 2021
    Music history

    The Legendary Meeting of Robert Plant and Jimmy Page

    By Bob Spitz  November 9, 2021
    Playlists

    Finding Friendship in Pandemic Collaboration

    By Shebani Rao and Sejal Shah  November 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Neil Young has written a sci-fi novel—and he’s already told us the plot.

    By Walker Caplan  October 29, 2021
    FUSE

    David Byrne and Open Mike Eagle on Sampling, Anime, and Gatekeeping in the Music Industry

    By FUSE: A BOMB Podcast   October 29, 2021
    Punk Rock

    How 11 Punk Bands Took a Leap of Faith, Sold Out, and Shaped Music History

    By Dan Ozzi  October 26, 2021
    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
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