How Many Movies About Billie Holiday Does it Take… How Many Movies About Billie Holiday Does it Take…
to capture her immense contribution to music? Apparently more than three.
Mar 11, 2021 / Ethan Iverson
Playboi Carti, Rap Iconoclast Playboi Carti, Rap Iconoclast
His recent album Whole Lotta Red boasts not just rockstar appeal but a sense of self-discovery and experimentation.
Mar 2, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
The Music We Made in Lockdown The Music We Made in Lockdown
On the artists who found new sounds in our collective solitude.
Feb 17, 2021 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu
Kali Uchis’s Fearless Latinx Pop Kali Uchis’s Fearless Latinx Pop
The bilingual, bicultural songs and sounds of Sin Miedo is a daring leap forward.
Feb 10, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Julyssa Lopez
I Wish We Could Be Dancing to Sophie I Wish We Could Be Dancing to Sophie
It’s an added cruelty that we cannot mourn the loss of the avant-pop icon properly.
Feb 4, 2021 / Annie Howard
A Soundtrack for the American Subconscious A Soundtrack for the American Subconscious
Oneohtrix Point Never’s latest album is not unlike a radio broadcast from another reality.
Jan 13, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen
The Legend of MF DOOM The Legend of MF DOOM
On the legacy of a rap music auteur.
Jan 7, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
The Ethical Commitment to Be a Punk The Ethical Commitment to Be a Punk
How 1980s punk music birthed its own kind of radical politics.
Jan 6, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Zipp
Open Mike Eagle’s Songs of Redemption Open Mike Eagle’s Songs of Redemption
His new album—Anime, Trauma and Divorce—uses rap as a vehicle for self-examination and restoration.
Dec 30, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
‘Christmas in My Soul’ ‘Christmas in My Soul’
Fifty years ago this season, Laura Nyro delivered a timeless rebuke to racism, militarism, and “the sins of politics.”
Dec 25, 2020 / John Nichols