Tag: Music

Columns

Learning to Listen

Max Alper

January 23, 2025

The social ramifications of Spotify’s reign.

The Composer Has No Clothes

Jeffrey Arlo Brown

July 31, 2024

The rot at the heart of the classical music industry.

Boys Next Door

Will Harrison

May 06, 2024

Geoffrey Mak’s reckoning with boys, brands, and violence.

Bard of Movement

FT

April 16, 2024

The music of Sufjan Stevens comes to the stage.

Punk Custodians

Jenn Pelly

February 21, 2024

A conversation with Grace Ambrose about Kleenex/LiLiPUT.

California Gothic

Andrew Marzoni

August 22, 2023

Lana Del Rey’s songbook is a secular Revelation for the coming fall.

Henry Threadgill’s Life in Music

Nate Wooley

July 25, 2023

A new jazz memoir subverts a familiar genre.

The Changeling

Robert Rubsam

July 13, 2023

The musician PJ Harvey has made a career of reinvention.

Available Space

Michael Blair

May 31, 2023

The musical osmosis of Ry Cooder.

Theater of Pain

Annie Howard

May 18, 2023

The macabre humor and gristly pageantry of Blacklips.

In the Domain of Faust

Nathan Shields

October 19, 2022

Music is the demonic.

The Screw Tapes

Adrian Nathan West

September 14, 2022

On DJ Screw and the Houston rap scene.