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August 26, 2014
Rebecca Traister
Beyonce's VMA Performance Was the Feminist Moment I've Been Waiting For
Behold one of the most powerful pop-culture messages of my lifetime
August 24, 2014
Alice Robb
Why Does Sad Music Make Us Feel Happy?
July 27, 2014
Becca Rothfeld
How Ravers Became the New Flower Children
EDM is the feel-good music of a new generation
July 5, 2014
James Loeffler
Wagner's Anti-Semitism Still Matters
It helped define European anti-Semitism, especially when it came to Jewish music
July 2, 2014
David Thomson
50 Years Later, 'A Hard Day's Night' Is Re-Released
The film captures the charismatic insolence of the young Beatles
June 27, 2014
Daisy Lafarge
Lana Del Rey’s New Album Is a Sad Indictment of Post-Feminism
June 14, 2014
David Hajdu
In Praise of Beautiful Music
There's nothing edgy about Maria Schneider's big-band orchestra, but there's nothing wrong with that
April 11, 2014
Alice Robb
Famous Violinists Can't Tell a Stradivarius from a Newly-Manufactured Violin
March 29, 2014
Liel Leibovitz
The Prophet in the Library
The previously undiscovered speech that launched Leonard Cohen's career
March 20, 2014
Marc Tracy
Beyoncé's Instagram Photos From the Anne Frank House Are Appropriately Provocative
March 14, 2014
Sarah Sloat
Some People Just Don't Like Music—and That Upsets a Lot of Evolutionary Theory
March 2, 2014
John Lingan
Big Star's Alex Chilton Wrote the Script for Every Indie-Rock Recluse
February 18, 2014
Dave Bry
Fear of a White Genre
Hip-hop is getting whiter, but that doesn't mean the genre is doomed
February 1, 2014
Philip Kennicott
The Minor Greatness of Benjamin Britten
How did England's best composer accomplish so much when he aimed for so little?
January 30, 2014
Justin Charity
Conservatives Have a New Marriage to Criticize: Beyonce's
January 28, 2014
David Hajdu
Pete Seeger: "For Too Much of My Life, I Preached to the Converted"
A previously unpublished interview
January 28, 2014
Alice Robb
The History of Pete Seeger’s Reputation Is the History of the Past 70 Years
January 28, 2014
Brandon Ambrosino
I Wasn't Born This Way. I Choose to Be Gay.
Macklemore sends the wrong LGBT message in 'Same Love'
January 28, 2014
Noah Chestnut
Watch The Best of Pete Seeger's 1960s Rainbow Quest
Rediscovering a lost treasure thanks to YouTube
January 27, 2014
Philip Kennicott
Rediscovering Bartok's Anxious, Hypnotic, Intellectually Exhausting Quartets

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