• Music

    Musicians

    Odetta, the Shy Folk Singer Who Defied McCarthyism’s Fear Tactics

    By Ian Zack  April 20, 2020
    Music

    Bob Dylan channels Walt Whitman in another glorious surprise release.

    By Aaron Robertson  April 17, 2020
    The Hub

    All your favorite pop songs reimagined as sonnets.

    By Emily Temple  April 14, 2020
    Free Speech

    The Time Giuseppe Verdi Battled *Actual* Censorship

    By Wallis Wilde-Menozzi  April 3, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Mission Creek Underground: The Musical Storytelling of Spectral Snake

    By The Virtual Book Channel  April 2, 2020
    Mission Creek Underground

    Mission Creek Underground:
    A Performance by Elizabeth Moen

    By The Virtual Book Channel  April 1, 2020
    Country Music

    The Songwriters Behind Country Music’s Biggest Hits

    By Bobbie and Bill Malone  March 30, 2020
    The Hub

    Nobel laureate in literature releases 17 minute prose poem about JFK’s assassination.

    By Emily Temple  March 27, 2020
    American Classics

    Marcus Mumford on John Steinbeck’s Lessons in Justice and Power

    By Literary Hub  February 27, 2020
    Pop Music

    How to Be a Beatles Fan Without Really Trying

    By Sibbie O'Sullivan  February 20, 2020
    Classical Music

    When Music is Your First Language

    By Philip Kennicott  February 20, 2020
    Classical Music

    Don’t Worry, Classically Trained Concert Pianists Are
    Humans Too

    By Stephen Hough  February 19, 2020
    Counterculture

    The Book That Began as an Acid-Fueled Speech at Woodstock

    By Jack Hoffman and Daniel Simon  February 18, 2020
    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
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