Common People
A wonderful new book by Stephen Wade, America’s greatest living folklorist, chronicles the history of the country’s folk music.
Music
74 articles
From Atmosphere to Empire
U2 reconsidered at fifty.
Red Reign
A thrash-metal classic turns forty.
Strong Opinions
When critics start issuing dictates, they end up excluding broad swathes of art and culture as well as whole areas of human experience.
How a Hidden Songbook Survived the Holocaust
The extraordinary story of how a fragile Holocaust songbook, hidden for decades in a Sydney cupboard, came back to the world.
Lists, Damn Lists, and Critical Correctness
Love them or hate them, lists are now firmly established—along with cats and porn—among the apex predators of the modern internet.
Never Neverland
The new Michael Jackson biopic and the campaign to whitewash the King of Pop’s reputation.
Frampton Comes Alive! at Fifty
The improbable story of rock’s greatest live album.
In the Air Tonight
How Phil Collins created the pop sound that defined the 1980s.
Parallel Kingdom
Nick Cave’s beautiful and tragic music brings redemptive catharsis to a grief-stricken city.
Arrest and Moral Pageantry
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Mick Jagger, and the theatre of degradation.
“These Songs Are Timeless”
Forty Years on, Dire Straits’ bassist John Illsley talks to Quillette about the band’s 1985 masterpiece, ‘Brothers in Arms.’