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Fiddling Around, “Middling Age”: A Conversation with Tim Kasher
Justin Gautreau speaks to Tim Kasher about making a new album during a global pandemic....
Music
What Custom Had Strictly Divided: On Kira Thurman’s “Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms”
A richly detailed history of the African American legacy in European orchestral music....
Real Life Rock Top 10: January 2022
LARB presents the January installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Who Needs a “National” Music?: On Joseph Horowitz’s “Dvořák’s Prophecy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music”
Horowitz’s book brims with detailed examples but its larger argument is unconvincing....
Let It Be Known: Grieving Through Adele
Kathryn Lofton explores what it means to grieve through the complexity of popular music....
Junkyard Dragon: The Rolling Stones at SoFi Stadium
Sometimes our critic hates the Rolling Stones so much that she thinks she must secretly love them....
Real Life Rock Top 10: December 2021
LARB presents the December 2021 installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: November 2021
LARB presents the November 2021 installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Born Middle-Aged: Eight Books on Steely Dan
A review of the literature on the hyperliterate jazz-rock ironists from 1970s L.A....
Musical Madeleines: On “Long Players: Writers on the Albums that Shaped Them”
Contemporary authors select their most “cherished” albums....
Real Life Rock Top 10: October 2021
LARB presents the October 2021 installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
It Just Depends: A Conversation with Richard Edwards
Justin Gautreau catches up with Richard Edwards, whose latest release is “Richard Edwards Sings the Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s, Songbook in Quarantine (Vol 1).”...
The Ambivalence of Life in “Blind Joe Death’s America”
Ethan Weinstein reviews "Blind Joe Death’s America," the new book by George Henderson about John Fahey....
Real Life Rock Top 10: August 2021
LARB presents the August 2021 installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: July 2021
LARB presents the July 2021 installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
The Haunted Van: Talking with Josh Malerman and The High Strung
A best-selling horror author’s band is about to release its ninth album....
Real Life Rock Top 10: June 2021
LARB presents the June 2021 installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Cancellation of the Gods
It should be easy to ignore Wagner because of his antisemitic legacy. But it’s not that simple....
My Father, Cultural Appropriator
Sarah Curtis traces history through music and her father’s work....
Worlding Music: On “Organic Music Societies”
A rich, gorgeously illustrated study of the multifarious creative praxis of Don and Moki Cherry....
Real Life Rock Top 10: May 2021
LARB presents the May 2021 installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
The Drone Is in the Heart
A psychedelic study of drones in nature, art, and popular music....
Real Life Rock Top 10: April 2021
LARB presents the April installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Young Man Inside an Old Man
Andrew Gumbel reviews "Beeswing," the new memoir written by Richard Thompson with Scott Timberg....
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