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Heroin Heroism: On the Rock ’n’ Roll Survivor Narrative
John Tottenham plows through the genre of the rock ’n’ roll memoir....
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The World as a Problem Never Fully Solved
The improvised life (and afterlife) of the British art rock group Henry Cow....
Real Life Rock Top 10: July 2020
LARB presents the July installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: June 2020 — Part II
LARB presents the second, all–Bob Dylan edition of the June installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: June 2020 — Part I
LARB presents the first part of the June installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
A Very Brief History of Authenticity in Hip-Hop
Felicia Angeja Viator on the complicated nature of "authenticity" in hip-hop...
Dance Routines, Pandemic Routines: Ryan Heffington's "SWEATFEST"
Media Studies scholar Kristen Warner and dance scholar Clare Croft consider the queer, quarantied embodiments of Ryan Heffington's Instagram dance class....
Selena Gomez and the Perils of Confessional Pop
Does vulnerability in pop pay off?...
Kim Gordon, Quarantined
Talking to a rock icon during a pandemic...
Real Life Rock Top 10: May 2020
LARB presents the May installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Giving Up the Goods: Mobb Deep’s “The Infamous” Turns 25
Oliver Wang revisits the antihero tales of crime and grime of the 1995 legacy-making album “The Infamous” by Mobb Deep on its 25th anniversary....
Dave Brubeck Unsquared: On Philip Clark’s New Biography
Dave Mandl takes five with “Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time” by Philip Clark....
American Tunes for Coronaviral Times: Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and John Prine
Pamela Thurschwell looks to songs by Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and John Prine to make sense of COVID-19....
Symphonies Silenced, Sonatas Streamed: The State of Classical Music During COVID-19
Melissa Chan considers the state of classical music in the age of coronavirus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: April 2020
LARB presents the April installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
The Death and Life of Blond Ambition: Madonna’s Entrancing Contradictions
Quinn Roberts explores the entrancing contradictions of Madonna’s legacy....
Among the Athenians: A Conversation with Grace Elizabeth Hale
Andrew Holter talks with Grace Elizabeth Hale, writer of “Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture.”...
All in This Together?: On Grace Elizabeth Hale’s “Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture”
Jeff Melnick considers the rise of alternative music in the American South, as discussed in Grace Hale’s new hybrid ethnography-memoir, “Cool Town.”...
Yuval Sharon Reinvents Opera for Los Angeles
Yuval Sharon has made it clear to the opera world that Los Angeles has a unique style that reflects its immensity....
Real Life Rock Top 10: March 2020
LARB presents the March installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Real Life Rock Top 10: February 2020
LARB presents the February installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
The Last Cowboy Song
Listening to Marty Robbins’s classic 1959 album “Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs.”...
Real Life Rock Top 10: January 2020
LARB presents the January installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Coincidences, Chance, and Champignons
Perwana Nazif reads across the works and correspondences of John Cage and Merce Cunningham....
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