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What Folk Music Misses About Actual Folks

What Folk Music Misses About Actual Folks

Brian Laidlaw on the Pastoral Fantasy in Music and Poetry

By Brian Laidlaw | November 9, 2018

The Moment When Punk Collided With Poetry

The Moment When Punk Collided With Poetry

On the Rock 'n' Roll Art of Patti Smith, Sam Shepard, and More

By Kembrew McLeod | October 19, 2018

The Life of the Writer/Musician

The Life of the Writer/Musician

Alicia Jo Rabins Asks a Dozen Creative Multitaskers How They Do It

By Alicia Jo Rabins | October 19, 2018

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

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

Tim Mohr on the Teenage Girl Who Loved the Sex Pistols and Hated the Government

By Tim Mohr | September 12, 2018

Guantánamo Mixtape: This Would Be the Soundtrack to Hell

Guantánamo Mixtape: This Would Be the Soundtrack to Hell

From Marilyn Manson to Meow Mix, Played Loud, Played Often

By Scott G. Bruce | September 7, 2018

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

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

On Finding an Uneasy Peace with Jazz Traditionalists

By Nate Chinen | August 16, 2018

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When They Put Lauryn Hill on the Cover of Time

By Joan Morgan | August 14, 2018

Bringing The Cradle Will Rock Back to Life

By John Mauceri | June 22, 2018

Diamond Dogs">On the "Future Shock" of David Bowie's Diamond Dogs

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The Sound of Black Voices, The Sound of My Father

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By Harmony Holiday | June 15, 2018

How Prince Helped Me Feel Seen

How Prince Helped Me Feel Seen

James Tate Hill on the Multifarious Legacy of the Artist Formerly Known As

By James Tate Hill | June 7, 2018

A Visit to Prince's Once-Mysterious Paisley Park

A Visit to Prince's Once-Mysterious Paisley Park

Six Months After the Pop Star's Death, His Studio Opened as a Museum

By Steven Hyden | May 25, 2018

A Pulitzer Prize is Only the Beginning for Kendrick Lamar

A Pulitzer Prize is Only the Beginning for Kendrick Lamar

On the Ever-Blurring Line Between Hip Hop and Poetry

By Veronica Esposito | April 30, 2018

Van Morrison, Unlikeliest of Literary Muses

Van Morrison, Unlikeliest of Literary Muses

On the Outsize Influence of Astral Weeks

By Tobias Carroll | April 26, 2018

Seeking the Sublime in Sonic Youth

Seeking the Sublime in Sonic Youth

How Their Iconic Sound Brings Us to the Edge of Our Own Mortality

By Zachary Pace | April 25, 2018

When Kathy Acker Interviewed the Spice Girls

When Kathy Acker Interviewed the Spice Girls

"Money makes the world what it is today . . . a world infested with evil."

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