Though he’s widely known for The Ten Cent Plague, his 2008 book on the U.S. government’s 1950s war on comics, David Hajdu has long been a music critic for The New Republic. Heroes and Villains is ...

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There’s always some backlash when the Grammy Award nominations are announced, but it was particularly harsh this year. The biggest headline to emerge from the Recording Academy’s 2021 list was the ...

A new book of essays co-edited by Kim Gordon has been announced. This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music is co-edited by Gordon and former music journalist Sinéad Gleeson, and will include pieces about ...

Thursday, Elle UK published a personal essay by Taylor Swift online, written for the magazine's Music Issue (out March 7), of which she's also the cover star. In the essay, Swift discusses her ...

German philosopher Adorno (1903–1969) celebrates new music, pans the old, and bemoans a philistine culture industry in these knotty essays written from 1922 to 1968. Himself a pianist and composer, ...

Questlove mourned Prince on social media following his passing last week, but today, he decided to eulogize the late singer in a much deeper way. He penned a touching tribute to Prince in an essay ...

ASHBURN, Va. (7News) — A sixth-grade Brambleton Middle School student won an essay competition in the June 2023 issue of School Band and Orchestra Magazine. Simone Rankin, who was selected as one of ...

In this rollicking collection of mostly previously published essays, Hadju (The Ten-Cent Plague; Positively 4th Street) combines the cutting candor of Lester Bangs and the measured and judicious ...