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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
July 11, 2013
Marc Tracy
Here Are All The Phish References I Snuck Into My Article About Phish
July 11, 2013
Marc Tracy
Gone Journophishin’
Political journalists find refuge in a Phish listserv
July 10, 2013
Noah Weiland
Magna Carta Holy Fail
How Jay-Z lost the hip-hop throne to Kanye
July 4, 2013
David Hajdu
The Post-Jazz Jazz of John Hollenbeck
A lyrical experimentalist
June 18, 2013
David Hajdu
Oh, 'Yeezus'
Kanye West's new album is raw, unapologetic—and boring
June 4, 2013
David Hajdu
Why George Jones Ranks with Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday
May 24, 2013
David Thomson
Behind the Plastic Surgery
Matt Damon is the real star of HBO's Liberace biopic
May 21, 2013
Jeb Lund, Jay Friedman
The Miseducation of Stan Veuger
Conservatives' hilarious attempt to appropriate rap music
April 26, 2013
Noreen Malone
Spring Break for Nerds
A skeptic learns the secret to South by Southwest’s success
April 11, 2013
David Hajdu
Meet the Queen of 'Kamikaze Cabaret'
Burning down Lincoln Center with Meow Meow
April 9, 2013
Paul Lukas
The Internet's Most Niche Website Is Also One of Its Most Brilliant
March 17, 2013
David Hajdu
David Bowie's Comeback Album
February 13, 2013
David Hajdu
R.I.P. Donald Byrd, Master Source of Jazzy Hip-Hop Samples

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