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March 6, 2015
David Hajdu
Tearing Up the Pop Charts
If popular music is escapist fun, why are the songs so sad?
February 10, 2015
Kashann Kilson
Iggy Azalea Gets Away With Reverse Minstrelsy Because There's a Market for It
February 8, 2015
Stuart Maconie
The Privileged Are Taking Over the Arts
February 5, 2015
Ann Friedman
Even Kim Gordon Doesn't Have It All
When a riot grrrl grows up
February 5, 2015
William Giraldi
Creative Destruction
Is it still possible to survive as an artist in America?
December 31, 2014
Simon R. Gardner
The Islamic State Produced the Most Influential Song of the Year
December 22, 2014
Elaine Teng
How 'Silent Night' Became the Most Popular Christmas Carol of All Time
November 15, 2014
Alex Abramovich
How a 26-Year-Old Bob Dylan Made the Most Famous Bootleg of All Time
November 14, 2014
Alice Robb
Why Do People Care Less About Music as They Get Older?
November 14, 2014
Becca Rothfeld
Thank You Taylor Swift for Making It Cool for Women to Act Crazy
November 7, 2014
Becca Rothfeld
A Single Sound Brought Together Berlin After the Wall Fell
October 31, 2014
Sean Wilentz
The Halloween Concert That Reinvented Bob Dylan
Philharmonic Hall, New York City, October 31, 1964
October 30, 2014
Ryan Kearney, Hillary Kelly
Which Is Scarier, Clowns or Zombies? A Debate to the Death.
October 29, 2014
Esther Breger
Taylor Swift Channels 'Gone Girl'
September 28, 2014
David Hajdu
How Parody Videos Transformed Pop Music—for Better and Worse
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

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