Tag: Music

Columns

Mass Hipgnosis

Rich Woodall

March 15, 2021

On the financialization of the music industry.

Goodbye, Dolly

Tom Sexton

February 08, 2021

Mythmaking in Dolly Parton’s America.

Streamlining the Streaming Regime

Sam Backer

January 19, 2021

The Music Modernization Act promises to streamline a long-antiquated legal regime for the benefit of music’s bright streaming future.

Homage to Old Rottenhat

Michael Hofmann

December 21, 2020

On the protean genius of Robert Wyatt.

#Wrapped and Sold

Liz Pelly

December 03, 2020

‘Tis the season for social media feeds peppered with free advertising for Spotify

Clinging to a Zine

Nathan Ma

September 07, 2020

The pandemic further endangers indie music journalism.

Homage to Albert Murray

Clifford Thompson

April 08, 2020

Reflections on the fifteenth anniversary of The Omni-Americans.

Appetite for Reconstruction

Andrew Marzoni

February 27, 2020

Is Axl Rose engaging in a bit of resistance grift?

This is What Insanity Sounds Like

Eli Zeger

December 17, 2019

On the curiously self-tortured legacy of post-grunge music

The Lamentation of Doctor Faustus

Andrew Marzoni

November 22, 2019

Music and fascism fifty years after Adorno

The Sky in Upside-Down Land

Niela Orr

August 21, 2019

In The Last Black Man in San Francisco and Bandana, black men hold fast to territory they’ve been told they should abandon.

The Power and the Noise

Will Meyer

July 02, 2019

Damon Krukowski’s Ways of Hearing poses a compelling counternarrative to typical tech criticism.