A onetime foulmouthed white rapper remade as an icon of right-wing country rebellion. An iconic disco-pop outfit with a crossover hit often understood to be about gay cruising that has become a global sports-and-bar-mitzvah anthem.These are the sorts...
One man was known as a killer, sentenced to life in prison in 2009 for killing a 16-year-old London student in a gruesome confrontation at a bakery.The other man was a balaclava-wearing rapper from South London, known as...
Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicThe Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” focuses on just a few crucial years at the beginning of the songwriter’s career, from 1961, when he relocated to New York from...
TikTok faces a possible ban in the coming days, but that did not stop one notable new user from joining the app this week: Bob Dylan.A verified account for the legendary singer-songwriter, Nobel Prize-winner and current subject of...
One morning, when she was about 7 years old, Neko Case stood on her front porch, closed her eyes and wished with all her might to see a horse.It was a tall order. She and her parents lived...
An estimated 100,000 scores and parts by the groundbreaking 20th-century composer Arnold Schoenberg were destroyed last week when the wildfires in Southern California burned down the music publishing company founded by his heirs. The company rents and sells...
On the cover of his latest album, Alexandre Kantorow’s left arm falls back behind a piano bench. A wave builds slowly from his dangled palm, up through the straight line of his bare forearm, and crests around his...
Josh White Jr., who began his long career at age 4 performing alongside his father, the famed blues singer and guitarist Josh White, before carving out his own identity in the 1960s folk revival based in Greenwich Village,...
Lambrini Girls, ‘Company Culture’All things patriarchal, capitalistic and obtuse are targets for Lambrini Girls, the gleefully obstreperous English punk duo Phoebe Lunny and Lilly Macieira. “Company Culture,” a blast at workplace harassment from their debut album, “Who Let...
Sam & Dave toured in the United States, Europe and Turkey, but their drug abuse had begun to take its toll. Their downward spiral was briefly slowed when John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, as the Blues Brothers, recorded...
