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December 30, 2016
Adam Behr
The Year’s Celebrity Deaths Reveal a Pop Culture Deeper and Richer Than Ever
December 13, 2016
Alex Shephard
What are you doing, Kanye?
November 28, 2016
W. David Marx
The Novelist and the Maestro
In a new book of conversations, Haruki Murakami mines the memories of famed conductor Seiji Ozawa for an insider view of orchestra life.
November 11, 2016
Sarah Weinman
Leonard Cohen’s Eternal Flame
For most of my life I viewed Leonard Cohen with suspicion. It wasn't until the end that I learned to love him.
November 1, 2016
Kathleen Massara
Phil Collins and the Pop Man’s Burden
If the landscape of white male pop icons has been leveled, was Phil Collins its first major casualty?
October 21, 2016
Alex Shephard
🎶 “Come gather ‘round children wherever ya roam / it’s high time you learned that Bob Dylan is a troll” 🎶
October 12, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump allegedly wanted to sue the Rolling Stones in the 1980s.
September 28, 2016
Clio Chang
What Does it Take for a K-Pop Star to Cross Over?
Chaelin Lee—better known as CL—is attempting to become a household name in the U.S. It won't be easy.
September 17, 2016
Stacia L. Brown
The Myth of the “Race Card”
Solange Knowles, Zendaya Coleman, and the perils of being a black woman who speaks up.
September 6, 2016
MagazineSasha Frere-Jones
The Beat Don’t Stop
How “The Get Down” and “Atlanta” break down hip-hop’s past and future.
August 29, 2016
Clio Chang
Questions we all (I) had after watching the VMAs.
August 26, 2016
Clio Chang
The Case for Carly Rae Jepsen
Can ‘E•MO•TION: Side B’ finally show the genius of an overlooked artist?
August 26, 2016
Frank Guan
Hip-Hop Hymnals
Why are rappers like Kanye West, Chance the Rapper, and Kendrick Lamar finding religion?
June 23, 2016
Mikaela Lefrak, Stephanie Heimann
Requiem for a Border Wall
Shotgun shells, used water bottles, and 670 miles of fencing provide the raw material for an American photographer and Mexican composer.
June 22, 2016
Ryan Kearney
Gawker achieves the impossible: sympathy for Slipknot.
May 31, 2016
Ryan Kearney
The Radiohead Racket
The real mystery behind Thom Yorke's lyrics: How come everyone thinks they're so profound?
May 13, 2016
Frank Guan
In Views, Drake Plays Himself
His latest album is mediocre, but sometimes that's just enough.
May 3, 2016
Alex Shephard
Unassuming British band Radiohead unveils new single with modest rollout.
May 2, 2016
Alex Shephard
What is Radiohead doing?
April 21, 2016
Alex Shephard
Prince was right when he said “the internet is over.”