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June 6, 2017
Jeet Heer
Why did Bob Dylan fake a Melville quote in his Nobel lecture?
May 25, 2017
Ryu Spaeth
Was Grunge Good?
The death of Chris Cornell and the 25th anniversary of the movie "Singles" bring a musical era into focus.
May 22, 2017
Annie Julia Wyman
What Happens When a Queer Punk Hero is Accused of Sexual Assault?
The pop-punk duo PWR BTTM presented themselves as everything their young fans needed. Like a lot of celebrity promises, it was too good to be true.
April 28, 2017
Juliet Kleber
Fyre Festival’s downfall is the hilarious nadir of festie culture.
March 29, 2017
Alex Shephard
Britpop was bad.
March 20, 2017
Alex Shephard
Chuck Berry Was More Than Just a Riff
“If you had to give rock n’ roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry,” John Lennon famously said.
March 3, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Acid House Is All Grown Up
A commemorative compilation pays a very special tribute to a legendary synthesizer—proof that everybody still needs a 303.
February 23, 2017
Eric Kleefeld
Depeche Mode reject Richard Spencer’s strangelove.
January 18, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Goodbye, Fantastic Man William Onyeabor.
The visionary funk musician William Onyeabor has died at 70
January 10, 2017
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump’s impending presidency isn’t all bad.
December 30, 2016
Alex Shephard
What Happened to Rock Music?
The genre hasn’t been this irrelevant in decades, which was only underscored by a slew of memoirs by aging rock stars.
December 30, 2016
Adam Behr
The Year’s Celebrity Deaths Reveal a Pop Culture Deeper and Richer Than Ever
December 13, 2016
Alex Shephard
What are you doing, Kanye?
November 28, 2016
W. David Marx
The Novelist and the Maestro
In a new book of conversations, Haruki Murakami mines the memories of famed conductor Seiji Ozawa for an insider view of orchestra life.
November 11, 2016
Sarah Weinman
Leonard Cohen’s Eternal Flame
For most of my life I viewed Leonard Cohen with suspicion. It wasn't until the end that I learned to love him.
November 1, 2016
Kathleen Massara
Phil Collins and the Pop Man’s Burden
If the landscape of white male pop icons has been leveled, was Phil Collins its first major casualty?
October 21, 2016
Alex Shephard
🎶 “Come gather ‘round children wherever ya roam / it’s high time you learned that Bob Dylan is a troll” 🎶
October 12, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump allegedly wanted to sue the Rolling Stones in the 1980s.
September 28, 2016
Clio Chang
What Does it Take for a K-Pop Star to Cross Over?
Chaelin Lee—better known as CL—is attempting to become a household name in the U.S. It won't be easy.
September 17, 2016
Stacia L. Brown
The Myth of the “Race Card”
Solange Knowles, Zendaya Coleman, and the perils of being a black woman who speaks up.
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