• Music

    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
    Theater

    Smoking Dope and Comparing Bad Reviews: Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine Discuss the Early Days of Their Collaboration

    By James Lapine  August 16, 2021
    Rock N Roll

    Marc Ribot Makes the Case for Loud Music

    By Marc Ribot  August 13, 2021
    The Hub

    Here’s the Taylor Swift album you should listen to based on your favorite author.

    By Snigdha Koirala  August 12, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    What The (Dixie) Chicks Meant to Me As a Teenager in Namibia

    By Rémy Ngamije  August 12, 2021
    News and Culture

    How Christa Päffgen Became the Iconic, Mysterious Andy Warhol Superstar Known as Nico

    By Jennifer Otter Bickerdike  August 12, 2021
    The Hub

    Dolly Parton is officially writing a novel, with a little help from James Patterson.

    By Walker Caplan  August 11, 2021
    Music

    What is This Music? “Drill Isn’t a Genre, It’s an Aesthetic Stance.”

    By Kit Mackintosh  August 11, 2021
    Reading Lists

    7 Music Novels to Shape Your Summer Soundtrack

    By Allison Larkin  August 6, 2021
    The Hub

    Post45 will publish a cluster of writing on David Berman in early 2022.

    By Walker Caplan  August 5, 2021
    Punk Rock

    Rachel Kushner on One of America’s Great Unsung Punk Albums

    By Rachel Kushner  August 5, 2021
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