• Music

    Deep Dive

    What Folk Music Misses About Actual Folks

    By Brian Laidlaw  November 9, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Moment When Punk Collided With Poetry

    By Kembrew McLeod  October 19, 2018
    News and Culture

    The Life of the Writer/Musician

    By Alicia Jo Rabins  October 19, 2018
    Excerpts

    How the First Punk in East Berlin Became an Enemy of the State

    By Tim Mohr  September 12, 2018
    Feature

    Guantánamo Mixtape: This Would Be the Soundtrack to Hell

    By Scott G. Bruce  September 7, 2018
    Excerpts

    Vijay Iyer: A Moral Imperative to Speak for the Musical Margins

    By Nate Chinen  August 16, 2018
    Style

    When They Put Lauryn Hill on the Cover of Time

    By Joan Morgan  August 14, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Bringing The Cradle Will Rock Back to Life

    By John Mauceri  June 22, 2018
    Biography

    On the “Future Shock” of David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs

    By Jason Heller  June 19, 2018
    Deep Dive

    The Sound of Black Voices, The Sound of My Father

    By Harmony Holiday  June 15, 2018
    Deep Dive

    How Prince Helped Me Feel Seen

    By James Tate Hill  June 7, 2018
    Excerpts

    A Visit to Prince’s Once-Mysterious Paisley Park

    By Steven Hyden  May 25, 2018
    Awards

    A Pulitzer Prize is Only the Beginning for Kendrick Lamar

    By Veronica Esposito  April 30, 2018
    Essay

    Van Morrison, Unlikeliest of Literary Muses

    By Tobias Carroll  April 26, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Seeking the Sublime in Sonic Youth

    By Zachary Pace  April 25, 2018
    Feature

    When Kathy Acker Interviewed the Spice Girls

    By Emily Temple  April 18, 2018
    News and Culture

    Music and My Father

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 10, 2018
    Essay

    Down and Out with Warren Zevon in LA

    By Joseph Knox  March 19, 2018
    Excerpts

    How Wagner Tried to Revolutionize Art and End Capitalism

    By Simon Callow  February 7, 2018
    Feature

    11 Pop Songs for Literary People

    By Emily Temple  January 26, 2018
    Essay

    In California, Visions of Defiance and Grace

    By Veronica Esposito  January 22, 2018
    Feature

    10 Songs for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    By Emily Temple  December 28, 2017
    Excerpts

    How David Bowie Made Life Less Suffocating for Young Queer People

    By Darryl W. Bullock  November 28, 2017
    Feature

    The Autobiography of Gucci Mane Sets a New High for the Celebrity Memoir

    By Katie Fustich  November 8, 2017
    Feature

    10 Songs for Franz Kafka’s The Trial

    By Emily Temple  November 3, 2017
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