Music

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

• Stop Expressing Yourself

  Ian Svenonius wants an end to "freedom of expression" in his latest, "Censorship Now!!"

  M. W. LipschutzJan 28, 2016

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  Mourning Politics

  G Herbo's mixtape is essentially a valediction: a struggle to mourn the victims of a racist culture.

  Haider ShahbazJan 23, 2016

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  Telling the Damn Truth

  Tom Teicholz interviews Peter Guralnick.

  Tom TeicholzJan 23, 2016

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  I don't think we know we are in this song

  An appreciation of David Bowie's alien glamorous life

  Pam ThurschwellJan 20, 2016

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• Prophets of a Noisy Heaven

  A review of Michael Denning's "Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution."

  Rachel MillerJan 14, 2016

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  The South Stole Americana

  On America's untended musical roots

  Josh Garrett-DavisJan 5, 2016

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• David Bowie and the 1970s: Testing the Limits of the Gendered Body

  David Bowie and the 1970s: Testing the Limits of the Gendered Body

  James PennerJan 2, 2016

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  Ancient Iraqi Stories, Retold

  On musician Amir ElSaffar and the lost art of the maqam

  Simon Davis-CohenDec 17, 2015

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  Amarillo Ramp: Minimalism and Country Music on the American Highway

  On the history and imagined comminglings of minimalism and country music.

  Michael BlairDec 9, 2015

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  Facing the Music

  Hynde and Brownstein tell us, with no other agenda than full disclosure, that they were lame — or in other words, lost and undone by their own desire.

  Carlene BauerNov 30, 2015

  • Memoir & Essay

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• Bliss Points: On John Seabrook’s “The Song Machine”

  The one big difference between previous hit factories and today's luxury Swedish model? The earlier ones came to an end.

  Eric HarveyNov 22, 2015

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• “It’s time for something else to happen”: The Perpetual Motion Machine That Is Grace Jones

  A woman abstracted. Grace Jones has a written her memoir on "the me" that she has "made up" rather than the one others made up.

  Francesca T. RoysterNov 20, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

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