• Music

    Punk

    Is It Still Punk When the Musician Makes It Big?

    By Vivien Goldman  May 9, 2019
    News and Culture

    Surviving False Dawns: On Joy Division and Life in a Far Distant Suburb

    By Justine Hyde  April 12, 2019
    Hip Hop

    8 Books That Define and Defy the Canon of Hip Hop Literature

    By Will Ashon  April 12, 2019
    Essay

    Discovering Ralph Waldo Emerson in the Golden Age of Sneakers

    By A. Sandosharaj  April 10, 2019
    Excerpts

    Anatomy of a Perfect Album: On Joni Mitchell’s Blue

    By John Corbett  March 28, 2019
    Criticism

    Literary Allusion Runs Deep Through the History of Hip-Hop

    By Roy Christopher  March 18, 2019
    Music

    Exclusive: Listen to a New Song by Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith

    By Corinne Segal  March 4, 2019
    Deep Dive

    On Kate Bush’s Radical Interpretation of Wuthering Heights

    By Brendan Mathews  February 13, 2019
    Feature

    How Do You Set James Joyce’s Most Famous Story on the Stage?

    By Leslie Pariseau  January 10, 2019
    History

    It’s Been 25 Years Since Kurt Cobain’s Last Rites, Nirvana’s Unplugged Show

    By Lynn Crosbie  December 14, 2018
    Biography

    When The Beatles Met Their Idol, Elvis Presley

    By Ray Connolly  December 3, 2018
    Essay

    On Ratchet Respectability and Beyoncé’s Sexual Politics

    By Omise'eke Tinsley  November 21, 2018
    Excerpts

    On the Complicated Legacy of American Country Music

    By Literary Hub  November 14, 2018
    Essay

    Why Do We Love Joni Mitchell the Way We Do?

    By Nick Coleman  November 13, 2018
    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
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