Articles

Reviews

• Gayle Wald on Fever: Little Willie John by Susan Whitall December 23rd, 2011

  “A Singer's Singer”

• Grace Krilanovich on Kids of the Black Hole: Punk Rock in Postsuburban California by Dewar MacLeod August 4th, 2011

  “Ambush Haircuts”

• Sara Marcus on Out of the Vinyl Deeps by Ellen Willis September 19th, 2011

  “Cherry Bomb: On Ellen Willis”

• Greil Marcus on Life by Keith Richards May 5th, 2011

  “Heart of Stone: Keith Richards' "Life"”

• Josh Langhoff on Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism by Chuck Eddy September 29th, 2011

  “King of the Contrarians: Chuck Eddy's "Rock and Roll Always Forgets"”

• Franklin Bruno on Listening and Longing by Daniel Cavicchi January 24th, 2012

  “Gilded Age Fan Club: Daniel Cavicchi's "Listening and Longing"”

• Sara Jaffe on White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race by Stephen Duncombe and Maxwell Tremblay January 23rd, 2012

  “Guilty of Being White”

• Glen Roven on The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross February 1st, 2012

  “The Pleasures of Listening”

• Evan Kindley on Fear of Music by Jonathan Lethem May 1st, 2012

  “Artifacts Only: On Jonathan Lethem's "Fear of Music"”

• Mark Sarvas on Letters to Kurt by Eric Erlandson May 29th, 2012

  “Someone Else's Martyr”

• Chris Daley on Violence Girl by Alice Bag June 2nd, 2012

  “Survive”

• Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on The Natural Mystics and Keep on Running by Colin Grant and Chris Salewicz June 11th, 2012

  “Neither Sand Nor Sea: Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Island Records”

• John Cline on My Song: A Memoir by Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson July 1st, 2012

  “Conjuring the Artist/Activist Line”

• Michael Szalay on Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta July 10th, 2012

  “The Incorporation Artist”

• Greil Marcus on Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions by Billy Bragg and Wilco July 14th, 2012

  “Notes on Woody Guthrie’s “Mermaid Avenue””

• Niall James Holohan on Brit Wits: A History Of British Rock Humor by Iain Ellis July 15th, 2012

  “Mock’n’Roll”

• Bryan Waterman on Love Goes to Buildings on Fire by Will Hermes July 20th, 2012

  “Sounds of the City: New York 1973-1977”

• Craig Hubert on Mike Watt: On and Off Bass by Mike Watt August 5th, 2012

  “The Big Reservoir”

• Jesse Jarnow on Always In Trouble by Jason Weiss August 19th, 2012

  “Unmatched Independent: On Record Label ESP-Disk'”

• Ali Pechman on Red Rock by Jonathan Campbell August 20th, 2012

  “Rock & Roll in China”

• John Wriggle on The Ellington Century by David Schiff September 6th, 2012

  “Ellington as Composer: Beyond Category?”

• Rickey Vincent on Listen, Whitey! by Pat Thomas October 17th, 2012

  “Louder Than a Bomb: On The Sounds of Black Power”

• John Shaw on The Irving Berlin Reader and Irving Berlin’s American Musical Theater by Benjamin Sears and Jeffrey Magee October 28th, 2012

  “Mr. Berlin Himself”

• Jesse Jarnow on Waging Heavy Peace by Neil Young October 29th, 2012

  “Touring the Mind of Neil Young”

• Lindsay Zoladz on Buffy Sainte-Marie: It’s My Way by Blair Stonechild December 2nd, 2012

  “Illuminations: A Biography of Buffy Sainte-Marie”

• Scott Korb on Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie December 5th, 2012

  “Enough and More Than Enough: On Paul Elie’s “Reinventing Bach””

• Eileen Reynolds on The First Four Notes by Matthew Guerrieri December 18th, 2012

  “Sublime Nothingness: On 'The First Four Notes'”

• Tom Gallagher on I’m Your Man by Sylvie Simmons January 7th, 2013

  “The Voice of the End of December: On Leonard Cohen’s Life and Music”

• Sarah Dougher on Love Rock Revolution by Mark Baumgarten January 13th, 2013

  “Revolution Come and Gone: On K Records”

• Joseph Martin on Punkademics by Zack Furness January 21st, 2013

  “Ivory Minority: Punk in the University”

• David O'Neill on Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group by Ian Svenonius February 4th, 2013

  “R U A Believer?: Ian Svenonius's "Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock'n'Roll Group"”

• Mark Young on Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Paula Guran February 16th, 2013

  “Defending the Rock”

• Alex Niven on Women Make Noise by Julia Downes February 27th, 2013

  “Daughters of D.I.Y.: Girl Bands from Motown to Modern”

• Dave Mandl on Music 109 by Alvin Lucier March 2nd, 2013

  “A Master Class in the Avant-Garde: Alvin Lucier's "Music 109"”

• Buzz Poole on Reading the Grateful Dead by Nicholas G. Meriwether March 15th, 2013

  “A Touch of Grey Matter: On “Reading the Grateful Dead””

• Brian Kim Stefans on We Got Power! by David Markey and Jordan Schwartz March 17th, 2013

  “Hardcore Hits the Coffee Table”

• Daniela Cascella on In Search of a Concrete Music by Pierre Schaeffer April 3rd, 2013

  “Sound Objects: Pierre Schaeffer’s “In Search of a Concrete Music””

• Gary Sullivan on Pop When The World Falls Apart by Eric Weisbard April 29th, 2013

  “Rock Star Professors: Eric Weisbard’s “Pop When The World Falls Apart””

• John Cline on Radical Moves by Lara Putnam June 2nd, 2013

  “Calypso and Caribbean Migration: Lara Putnam's "Radical Moves"”

Essays

• The Natural by Marjorie Perloff November 2nd, 2011
• The Wages of Narrative by John Durham Peters February 1st, 2012
• Empire States of Mind: Johnny, Patti, and Jay by Jack Hamilton December 7th, 2012
• In the Neighborhood: Tom Waits by Alex Harvey December 29th, 2012