• Music

    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
    News and Culture

    At the Crossroads Where Jamaica’s History and Fictions Meet

    By Marcia Douglas  August 21, 2019
    Counterculture

    Why Were the 1970s So… Weird?

    By Erik Davis  August 12, 2019
    The Hub

    Everyone is sharing David Berman lyrics and poems on Twitter.

    By Jonny Diamond  August 8, 2019
    Music history

    The Quintessential American Hymn of Redemption Was Written by a Slave Trader

    By Jess Row  July 23, 2019
    The Hub

    Listen to some jazz inspired by Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies.

    By Emily Temple  July 22, 2019
    Celebrity

    Big in the Philippines: Why I Was Named After Karen Carpenter

    By Karen Tongson  July 22, 2019
    The Hub

    All your favorite songs reimagined as vintage book covers. (You’re welcome.)

    By Emily Temple  July 19, 2019
    Singer Songwriters

    The Fictional Singer-Songwriter Who Got Her Own Real Album

    By Laura Barnett  July 18, 2019
    Children's Lit

    The dad-rock book tie-in we’ve all been waiting for: a Metallica children’s book.

    By Jonny Diamond  July 11, 2019
    Dance

    Remembering Merce Cunningham and Radical Dance in Postwar Paris

    By Marianne Preger-Simon  June 26, 2019
    The Hub

    Five things you should know about the ongoing investigation into Biggie Smalls’ murder.

    By Dwyer Murphy  June 13, 2019
    News and Culture

    Jim DeRogatis: Consuming the Art of a Predator is Always a Moral Choice

    By Jim DeRogatis  June 12, 2019
    Music history

    David Epstein on the Genius of the Self-Taught Musician

    By David Epstein  June 11, 2019
    Pop Culture

    How Beyoncé Revolutionized the American Political Landscape

    By Kevin Allred  June 11, 2019
    Rock N Roll

    What David Bowie Borrowed From William Burroughs

    By Casey Rae  June 11, 2019
    Disappearing Archives

    Disappearing Archives: Sun Ra and Henry Dumas, Recorded in Conversation

    By Harmony Holiday  June 10, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The Case Against R. Kelly is
    a Case Against Us

    By Treva Lindsey  June 6, 2019
    American History

    Antony DeCurtis on the Instruments Behind Iconic Rock ‘n’ Roll Moments

    By Anthony DeCurtis  June 5, 2019
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