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.
2009
-
-
People, Let's Get Our Carbon Down
Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. & Bill McKibben : Global Warming & Climate Change
From soul to hip-hop: the new environmental movement has a street beat.
-
Back Talk: Jarvis Cocker
Christine Smallwood : Internet & New Media
A conversation with the former frontman of Pulp about the sound of music in the digital era.
-
Mahler's Body
David Schiff : Biography
Gustav Mahler's embrace of Germanness and battles with anti-Semitism.
-
Return of the Fabulous
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.
-
Steve Earle's Labor of Love
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.
-
Democracy, on Mic and on Camera
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.
-
The GOP's Hip-Hop Makeover
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?
-
Rock for Barack
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.
-
Ives's Ears
David Schiff
In songs, symphonies and sonatas, Charles Ives furnished America's musical past with a future.
2008
-
Listening to Odetta
Her voice a force of nature and her theatrical sense undimmed, Odetta-made music of extraordinary compassion, intuition and grace.
-
The Kingston Trio and the Red Scare
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.
-
The Relentless Activism of Tom Morello
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.
-
Nixon Dirty Trickster on McCain Team
The man instrumental in a White House move to deport John Lennon in 1972 now heads McCain's transition team.
-
Tainted Love
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.
-
The Plot Against Grimes
David Schiff : Books, Literature, & Ideas
A recent production of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes is a grim masterpiece of opera noir.
More From
The Archive
Music
Haggin, B. H.Music
Santoro, GeneMusic
Santoro, GeneMusic
Haggin, B. H.Music
Maggin, B. H.Primitive Music - A Study of Omaha Indian Music
Music
Finck, Henry T.Music
de Stefano, GeorgeMusic
Boretz, BenjamanMusic
Haggin, B. H.Music
Finck, Henry T.Music
Music
MUSIC
Santoro, GeneA Music Critic to the Rescue
Barzun, JacquesMusic
Haggin, B. H.Music
Hamilton, DavidMusic
MUSIC
Santoro, GeneMusic
Trimble, LesterMusic
Haggin, B. H.Music
Haggin, B. H.Music
Haggin, B. H.Music
Haggin, B. H.Music
Haggin, B. H.Music. Downes on Music
Haggin, B. H.Music
Haggin, B. H.
RSS