The Unrepentant Modernist The Unrepentant Modernist
Near the end of Parallels and Paradoxes, a recent collection of dialogues on music and society between the conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, music director of the Chicago...
May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Russell Platt
Fight Club Fight Club
Writing may be fighting, as Ishmael Reed famously opined, but most writers know the difference. There are, of course, some who blur the line.
May 22, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz
Nina Simone: Lit by a Sacred Flame Nina Simone: Lit by a Sacred Flame
To listen to her voice was to be hijacked by its power.
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz
Hors de Combat Hors de Combat
She's the ultimate quick-change artist, with a style that can absorb any trend and an image to match. She's gone from material girl to S/M maitresse, from power diva to content...
Apr 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Richard Goldstein
‘Rules for Changing the World’ ‘Rules for Changing the World’
This was intended to be a sweet little prewar column about an artist I admire, Rosanne Cash.
Mar 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Slumming Toward Academia Slumming Toward Academia
Only the joy of capitalist expectation could move a pre-Reagan-born American to utter the line "civil rights is dead," let alone write a book devoted to that proposition.
Feb 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Armond White
Prick Up Your Ears Prick Up Your Ears
How does a fiercely anticorporate musician feel about participating in a corporate entertainment system?
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
The Power of Music The Power of Music
Talking With Eddie Vedder, Boots Riley, Amy Ray, Carrie Brownstein, Tom Morello
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ann Powers
Desert Island Discs Desert Island Discs
Picture this: you're stranded on a desert island with nothing to comfort you but sand, sun and, miraculously, the solar-powered sound system that washed up with you.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors
‘Stakes Is High’ ‘Stakes Is High’
Fifteen years ago, rappers like Public Enemy, KRS-One and Queen Latifah were received as heralds of a new movement.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jeff Chang