Waiting for the Miracle
David Yaffe
In Leonard Cohen's Afterworld, the trajectory between the latest hit and the wisdom of old has been a long one.

David Yaffe
In Leonard Cohen's Afterworld, the trajectory between the latest hit and the wisdom of old has been a long one.

Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. & Bill McKibben : Global Warming & Climate Change
From soul to hip-hop: the new environmental movement has a street beat.

Christine Smallwood : Internet & New Media
A conversation with the former frontman of Pulp about the sound of music in the digital era.
David Schiff : Biography
Gustav Mahler's embrace of Germanness and battles with anti-Semitism.
JoAnn Wypijewski : Television
In the end, the vote was silly or sad, but for eighteen weeks on American Idol, Adam Lambert was Everyman and Everygayman, skating the edge of ecstasy and terror.
Charles P. Pierce
The music on Townes, Steve Earle's tribute to Townes Van Zandt, is simple and literally homespun. There is sinew to this music, and blood in the words.

Cora Currier : Film
A new film offers a nuanced and inspiring portrait of the role hip-hop activists have played in the politics of Senegal.

Ari Melber : Republican Party
Michael Steele's getting funky, frantically remixing the GOP message, in hopes of reaching new generation of conservative voters. Is anybody listening?

Corbin Hiar
A concert unlike any Washington has seen unfolded Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial, expressing the hopes and dreams of a nation on the cusp of enormous change.

David Schiff
In songs, symphonies and sonatas, Charles Ives furnished America's musical past with a future.
Her voice a force of nature and her theatrical sense undimmed, Odetta-made music of extraordinary compassion, intuition and grace.
Peter Dreier & Jim Vrabel : History
The death of Nick Reynolds, one of the Kingston Trio, last week at 75, provoked fond memories of one era and painful reminders of another.
ZP Heller : Activism & Organizing
The Rage Against the Machine guitarist recounts his raucous RNC protest and explains his inspiration for melding politics and popular music.
The man instrumental in a White House move to deport John Lennon in 1972 now heads McCain's transition team.
Daphne A. Brooks : Arts, Culture, & Entertainment
Just about the only thing Amy Winehouse hasn't repackaged from the black music archives is the one thing she could use: a lesson in Motown etiquette.
David Schiff : Books, Literature, & Ideas
A recent production of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes is a grim masterpiece of opera noir.
