• Music

    The Hub

    The new Daisy Jones & the Six trailer reveals one of 24 (!) original songs.

    By Eliza Smith  January 25, 2023
    The Hub

    The boygenius book club: 48 books the indie rockers think you should read.

    By Emily Temple  January 23, 2023
    The Hub

    Phoebe Bridgers and the Boygenius gang are huge book nerds.

    By Jonny Diamond  January 20, 2023
    Singer Songwriters

    Singer-Songwriter Margo Price on Finding Truth and Joy in Writing a Memoir

    By Maggie Smith  January 12, 2023
    Songwriting

    George Saunders on His First Love: Songwriting

    By Mike Errico  January 9, 2023
    Music Writing

    “The Song Found Me.” An Oral History of Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly”

    By Marc Myers  December 14, 2022
    Rock and Roll

    How Paul McCartney Dispelled the Myth of His Own Death

    By Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair  December 13, 2022
    Music Writing

    How CokeMachineGlow.com Defined a Decade of Music Writing

    By Clayton Purdom  December 12, 2022
    In Conversation

    Cultural Geography and Mutual Enthusiasm: A Late Conversation with Stephen Sondheim

    By D.T. Max  December 6, 2022
    Rock and Roll

    Kurt Cobain Talks to College Radio About Moving Beyond Grunge… and Seattle

    By Kurt Cobain  November 30, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan, Read by a Full Cast

    By Behind the Mic   November 28, 2022
    The Hub

    Fans aren’t happy about their $600 autopen-signed copies of Bob Dylan’s new book.

    By Jonny Diamond  November 21, 2022
    Pop Music

    A Poetic F*ck-You: Behind the Scenes of Fleetwood Mac’s Chart-Topping “Dreams”

    By Tom Breihan  November 21, 2022
    Miami Book Fair

    Lenny Kaye’s Insider Take on the Music That Rocked the 20th Century

    By The Virtual Book Channel  November 21, 2022
    Miami Book Fair

    Ignacio Julià on the Legacy of The Velvet Underground

    By The Virtual Book Channel  November 21, 2022
    Songwriting

    Someone Has to Say It: Bob Dylan’s New Book Would Have Been Better as a Podcast

    By Natalia Holtzman  November 18, 2022
    Punk Rock

    Bad Religion’s Greg Gaffin on What the Early Documentaries Got Wrong About the Punk Scene

    By Greg Graffin  November 18, 2022
    Rock'n'roll

    On Chuck Berry’s Early Literary Influences

    By RJ Smith  November 16, 2022
    Twitterverse

    Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on Writing Rap Music About Nabokov

    By Twitterverse   November 8, 2022
    Hip Hop

    On Atlanta’s Essential Role in the Making of American Hip-Hop

    By Joe Coscarelli  November 7, 2022
    Hip Hop

    A Brief Oral History of Rakim and the Golden Age of Hip-Hop

    By Jonathan Abrams  November 3, 2022
    Keen On

    Perhaps the Most Remarkable Thing About Charlie Watts Was Just How Remarkably Ordinary He Was

    By Keen On  November 2, 2022
    Rock and Roll

    How Rock and Roll Came to Sioux Falls, South Dakota

    By Patrick Lalley  October 27, 2022
    The Hub

    Listen to Phoebe Bridgers and Andrew Bird “reimagine” Emily Dickinson.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 26, 2022
    Rock'n'roll

    “He Was Savile Row, Man.” On the Inimitable Style of Charlie Watts, Rock N’ Roll Drummer

    By Paul Sexton  October 26, 2022
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