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September 10, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Are There Any Bands Left That Let Trump Use Their Music?
Donald Trump has landed himself a new lawsuit over his choice of music.
August 29, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Just Landed Himself More Musical Legal Trouble
ABBA is the latest in a long line of artists who don’t want their music associated with Donald Trump.
August 28, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
J.D. Vance Brags About How Smart He Is Right Before a Humiliating Slip
J.D. Vance confused a suicide bombing with a Beatles album.
August 22, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Idiot Trump Earns Himself More Legal Trouble—This Time From Beyoncé
The music superstar was not pleased that Donald Trump used one of her songs in a campaign video.
August 12, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Idiot Trump Just Landed Himself Another Legal Battle
Isaac Hayes’s family and Celine Dion tore into Donald Trump.
March 12, 2018
Jo Livingstone
NME and Me: A Brief History of the Best Music Mag of the 20th Century
Looking back at 65 years of the essential arbiter of pop music, whose famed print edition is soon to close down.
March 9, 2016
Alex Shephard
Remembering George Martin’s best non-Beatles production work.
March 9, 2016
Jeet Heer
George Martin turned the Beatles into studio musicians.
January 21, 2016
Marissa Brostoff
How David Bowie Avoided the Cliché of the Aging Rock Star
Bowie managed to resist the cult of youth that later trapped Mick Jagger and others of their generation.
December 23, 2015
Alex Shephard
The Beatles are coming to Spotify and Apple and even Tidal (but not Rdio because Rdio is dead).
March 8, 2015
Bryan Appleyard
The Happiness Conspiracy
Against optimism and the cult of positive thinking
November 16, 2012
Jason Diamond
From Jukeboxes to YouTube: How Billboard Is Catching Up With The Times
January 7, 2010
David Hajdu
Pretending
April 1, 2009
David Thomson
Wishin' and Mopin'
October 22, 2008
David Hajdu
Get Back
January 7, 1991
Louis Menand
Life in the Stone Age
Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone, and the puritanical counterculture.
December 24, 1984
John Lahr
Exiles on Easy Street
December 2, 1981
John Lahr
The Beatles Considered
It was twenty years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.
August 19, 1967
Brian Wenham
Pot Britannica: The All-Time High

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