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Love Labor: On Touring as an Independent Musician
Eli Winter details the material and psychological quirks of touring as an independent musician....
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The Band’s Massive Weight: On Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Waltz” and Jeff Sellars and Kevin C. Neece’s “Rags and Bones”
Ethan Warren reviews “Rags and Bones: An Exploration of the Band” and Criterion’s remaster of Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Waltz.”...
Good Evening, We Are from Ukraine: The Subversive Radicalism of a Viral Wartime Slogan
Maria Sonevytsky explores how a simple phrase became a slogan invoked by Ukrainian politicians, soldiers, intellectuals, and keyboard warriors....
Is Rock the Real Thing?: On John Scanlan’s “Rock ’n’ Roll Plays Itself”
Alex Harvey reviews John Scanlan’s “Rock ’n’ Roll Plays Itself: A Screen History.”...
A Giant Peak Called “The Doors”: A Conversation with John Densmore
James Penner interviews John Densmore, drummer for the Doors....
What Are You Looking For?: A Conversation with Open Mike Eagle
Paul Thompson interviews rapper Open Mike Eagle for issue no. 36 of The LARB Quarterly....
Anchor Points and Improvisations: A Conversation Between Jeff Jackson and Dashiel Carrera
Dashiel Carrera and Jeff Jackson discuss how music has inspired the form and content of their novels....
The Psychedelic Genesis of the Doors: A Conversation with Robby Krieger
James Penner speaks with Robby Krieger, the guitarist for the Doors....
A Down-and-Out but Amusing Character: On Alex Harvey’s “Song Noir”
Dec Ryan reviews Alex Harvey’s “Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles.”...
No One Receiving: On Daniel K. L. Chua and Alexander Rehding’s “Alien Listening”
Patrick Valiquet responds to music theory’s close encounter with speculative realism in “Alien Listening: Voyager’s Golden Record and Music from Earth” by Daniel K. L. Chua and Alexander Rehding....
It’s All Pastiche: On Todd Field’s “TÁR”
Paul Thompson reviews Todd Field’s “TÁR.”...
Featuring Emily Dickinson and Phoebe Bridgers: A Conversation with Andrew Bird
Elizabeth Metzger interviews Andrew Bird about his new single, “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” featuring Phoebe Bridgers....
Books That Sing: On Justin St. Clair’s “Soundtracked Books from the Acoustic Era to the Digital Age”
Nicholas C. Laudadio reviews Justin St. Clair’s “Soundtracked Books from the Acoustic Era to the Digital Age.”...
I Don’t Worry About My Oeuvre: A Conversation with John Carpenter
Paul Thompson interviews John Carpenter about the state of horror, navigating Hollywood, and the movies he didn’t make....
Armpit Tortillas and Cactus Saliva: On Linda Ronstadt and Lawrence Downes’s “Feels Like Home”
Caroline Tracey reviews Linda Ronstadt and Lawrence Downes’s “Feels Like Home.”...
Big Dreams and Strange Connections: A Conversation with Joe Coscarelli
Donald Morrison talks to Joe Coscarelli of “The New York Times” about the state and shape of Atlanta hip-hop....
The House of Amapiano
Sanya Osha explores the joyous energy of the amapiano music genre in South Africa....
“I’m Going to Learn How to Make My Own Kind of Life”: On Vashti Bunyan’s “Wayward”
David Mandl reviews Vashti Bunyan’s memoir “Wayward: Just Another Life to Live.”...
Hip-Hop Gods: On Two New Biographies of Major Rap DJs
Craig Lindsey reviews two new biographies of major rap DJs by Dan Charnas and Lance Scott Walker....
Mind-Boggling Lyrical Complexity: On Daniel Levin Becker’s “What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language”
Aaron Peck reviews Daniel Levin Becker’s “What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language.”...
“Cats Are Indescribably Wonderful, Shostakovich’s Fugues Less So”: On Elizabeth Wilson’s “Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin’s Russia”
Tim Riley reviews Elizabeth Wilson’s new biography “Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin’s Russia.”...
Who Killed Orchestral Music?
Tom Teicholz turns his ear to “The War on Music: Reclaiming the 20th Century” by John Mauceri....
Debuting During a Pandemic: A Conversation with Coco Reilly
Justin Gautreau talks with Coco Reilly about her self-titled debut album....
We Are Not Alone: A Conversation with Stephan Jenkins
Justin Gautreau speaks to Stephan Jenkins, frontman of Third Eye Blind, about writing and composing under quarantine....
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