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Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx on Discovering Hard Rock in the Middle of Idaho

Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx on Discovering Hard Rock in the Middle of Idaho

“Until Kiss and Alice Cooper came along, music had been getting softer and softer.”

By Nikki Sixx | October 19, 2021

The Time Jim Morrison Was Arrested Onstage in the Middle of a Show

The Time Jim Morrison Was Arrested Onstage in the Middle of a Show

Former Doors Bandmember Robby Krieger Remembers the Myth-Making Moment

By Robby Krieger | October 15, 2021

How Opera Invented the Modern Fan

How Opera Invented the Modern Fan

Alison Kinney Investigates the Barriers to Appreciating Art the “Right” Way

By Alison Kinney | October 14, 2021

Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda on the Alchemy of Making Music and Art

Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda on the Alchemy of Making Music and Art

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By Change Lab | October 14, 2021

Joshua Bennett on Fatherhood: “We Do Not Live Forever. But We Do Live On.”

Joshua Bennett on Fatherhood: “We Do Not Live Forever. But We Do Live On.”

For the Latest Issue of Freeman’s

By Joshua Bennett | October 12, 2021

Kelefa Sanneh: What Actually is “Country Music”?

Kelefa Sanneh: What Actually is “Country Music”?

On the Genre’s Shifting Identities

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A World Outside Time: Pico Iyer on the Deep Pleasure of Handel’s Chorale Music

A World Outside Time: Pico Iyer on the Deep Pleasure of Handel’s Chorale Music

“What so moves me—literally transports me—is the way he blends ceremony with emotion.”

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Listen to the musical stylings of Shel Silverstein and Johnny Cash.

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Stephen Sondheim is working on a new musical—with David Ives.

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Some Life Lessons (Read: Humiliations) From Playing Music

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Read the love poem that went viral . . . in ancient Greece.

Read the love poem that went viral . . . in ancient Greece.

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<em>Pride and Prejudice</em> is becoming an all-female pop musical.

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