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Music

Music

An Oral History of the Thrash Metal Mosh Pit

By Jon Wiederhorn  January 10, 2020
Music

The Romantic, Uncompromising, Audacious Life of Lhasa de Sela

By Fred Goodman  December 20, 2019
Music

When Classical Music Was a Cold War Battleground

By Jonathan Rosenberg  December 19, 2019
Celebrities

Body Language: On Kylie Minogue, Cancer, and Coming Back to Life

By Oliver Reeson  December 11, 2019
Jazz

On the Sacred Bard of the 1960s Chicago Jazz Scene

By Thulani Davis  December 11, 2019
Brexit

Never Mind the Ballots: On the Unholy Interplay Between
Punk and Brexit

By Fintan O'Toole  December 9, 2019
1960s

What Happened to Rock and Roll
After Altamont?

By Buzz Poole  December 6, 2019
Hip Hop

On Jay-Z, Rakim, and Black Mythmaking in America

By Tarisai Ngangura  November 26, 2019
Minimalism

Self-Storage:
Reading John Cage in Reykjavik

By J. Mae Barizo  November 25, 2019
Influences

On the Books That Most Influenced the Great David Bowie

By John O'Connell  November 19, 2019
Music

Rock, Pop, and the Development of Avant Garde Music After World War II

By Benjamin Piekut  November 5, 2019
Stephen Crane

A Century Before Springsteen, Stephen Crane Chronicled Asbury Park

By Tobias Carroll  November 1, 2019
Hip Hop

On Debbie D, One of Hip-Hop’s Legendary Pioneers

By Kathy Iandoli  October 25, 2019
Rock'n'roll

The City Where Janis Joplin Found Her Voice

By Holly George-Warren  October 24, 2019
Craft

How Pretending to Be Paul McCartney Helped Me Write My Book

By Karl Whitney  October 24, 2019
Music

Dead Kennedys in the West:
The Politicized Punks of 1970s San Francisco

By Lincoln A. Mitchell  October 22, 2019
Musicians

On the Groundbreaking Documentary That Brought the Birthplace of Chicago Blues Alive

By David Dann  October 16, 2019
The Hub

Rihanna: the only girl in the world whose memoir comes with a marble pedestal.

By Katie Yee  October 7, 2019
Pop Music

So You Think You’re Cool? On Referencing Pop Music in Fiction

By Robert Haller  September 26, 2019
Icons

Bruce Springsteen’s “The River” Spoke to My Working-Class Dublin

By Dermot Bolger  September 25, 2019
Musicology

On the Difficulty of Explaining Why a Piece of Music is Good

By John Mauceri  September 25, 2019
The Cold War

When Leonard Bernstein Played Cultural Diplomat in 1960s Japan

By Mari Yoshihara  September 19, 2019
Writers Abroad

The Soundtrack You Need for Traveling the World With Your Kids

By Dan Kois  September 18, 2019
The Lives of Women

On Alma Mahler, Muse and Mistress of Fin-de-Siecle Vienna

By Cate Haste  September 16, 2019
Criticism

Why ‘Wichita Lineman’ Contains the Greatest Musical Couplet Ever Written

By Dylan Jones  September 6, 2019
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