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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A previously unpublished interview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
January 27, 2014
Justin Charity
Macklemore Shouldn't Have Won Any Grammys, But Rap Purists Are Missing the Point
January 21, 2014
Christopher Beam
The Chinese Government Is Threatened by My Dance Moves
December 27, 2013
David Hajdu
The Year in Music
The Best Albums of 2013, the Year Marketing Almost Took Over Music
December 20, 2013
Marc Tracy
The Story Behind the Central Song in 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
December 18, 2013
Michael Schaffer
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" Is a Terrible, Terrible Song
You know it's about bullying, right?
December 14, 2013
Sarah Ditum
Beyonce's New Album is a Feminist Manifesto
November 1, 2013
Philip Kennicott
Gay Life at the Opera
Between homoeroticism and kitsch
October 25, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Robin Thicke Gets Gross in Elle Interview
September 20, 2013
Paul Berman
Parents Absolutely Should Force Their Kids to Take Music Lessons
September 17, 2013
Mark Oppenheimer
Stop Forcing Your Kids to Learn a Musical Instrument
August 26, 2013
Philip Kennicott
America’s Orchestras are in Crisis
How an effort to popularize classical music undermines what makes orchestras great.
August 14, 2013
Paul Berman
A Pop Star Is Dead, But Her Sexiness Is Immortal

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