• Music

    Rock and Roll

    From A Hard Day’s Night to This Is Spinal Tap: The Big Tent of Rock and Roll on Film

    By Fred Goodman  July 28, 2022
    Folksingers

    Where’s the Respect for Ani DiFranco?

    By Elisa Albert  July 25, 2022
    The Hub

    Listen to an 8-minute song inspired by the work of Marilynne Robinson.

    By Emily Temple  July 22, 2022
    On Translation

    What Only Musicians and Translators Know

    By Jessica Sequeira  July 20, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Elisa Albert on Menstrual Cycles, the Music Industry, and the Myth of the Tortured Artist

    By The Maris Review  July 14, 2022
    News and Culture

    1980s Glam French Rebellion: A Literary Playlist

    By Valérie Perrin  July 5, 2022
    Pop Music

    Exploring the Richard Brautigan Universe of Bubblegum Minimalism That Inspired Harry Styles

    By Matt Mitchell  June 30, 2022
    Coming out

    Why 1997 Was a Pivotal Year in the Life of George Michael

    By James Gavin  June 29, 2022
    Keen On

    Joni Mitchell and James Taylor: A Love Affair So Melodic That It Had to Be Transformed Into Fiction

    By Keen On  June 29, 2022
    The Common

    Mark Kyungsoo Bias on How Hip-Hop Influences His Poetry

    By The Common  June 27, 2022
    Emergence Magazine

    Listen to Volker Bertelmann’s Soundtrack of Emergence Magazine’s “Living with the Unknown”

    By Emergence Magazine  June 27, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Zakiya Dalila Harris on the Writing Soundtracks that Work

    By Zakiya Dalila Harris  June 24, 2022
    Literary Playlist

    Brazilian Rhythms, Queer Longing, and Caio Fernando Abreu: A Literary Playlist

    By Bruna Dantas Lobato  June 17, 2022
    Rock'n'roll

    Kenny Loggins on How Buck Teeth Saved Him From Vietnam, and the Magic of a Great Audition

    By Kenny Loggins with Jason Turbow  June 14, 2022
    Keen On

    Why Writing an Autobiography Is More Like Recording an Album Than Making a Single

    By Keen On  June 14, 2022
    News and Culture

    How Jazz Fueled a Nationwide Dance Craze—and Made Its Way to Paris

    By Stuart Isacoff  June 8, 2022
    Romance

    In the Name of Love: How A Punk Rock God Snuck Into My Romance Novel

    By Seth Kaufman  June 3, 2022
    Hip Hop

    Behind the Scenes of Ready to Die: An Excerpt from It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him

    By Justin Tinsley  May 20, 2022
    Music history

    Emily Bingham on the Material Culture of White America’s Song to Itself: “My Old Kentucky Home”

    By Emily Bingham  May 16, 2022
    Emergence Magazine

    Singer Sam Lee on the Transformative Experience of Creating Songs in Collaboration With Nightingales

    By Emergence Magazine  May 16, 2022
    The Hub

    Bono has finally done it. He’s written his memoir. And it’s going to be published.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 10, 2022
    Music history

    Lyrical Black Face: The Truth About “My Old Kentucky Home”

    By Emily Bingham  May 9, 2022
    Music Writing

    “Auld Lang Syne” in July: Yiyun Li on the Solaces and Limits of Music

    By Yiyun Li  May 3, 2022
    African American History

    How Sissieretta Jones, Celebrated Black Opera Singer, Enshrined Her Own Story

    By Rosalyn Story  May 2, 2022
    The Hub

    The new Conversations with Friends trailer features an original Phoebe Bridgers song.

    By Eliza Smith  April 13, 2022
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