A collection of 50 posts
The naysayers are dead wrong about James Mangold’s remarkable new film about Bob Dylan and the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s.
Steve Albini and the new problem with music.
As the Bad Seeds begin touring their acclaimed new album, ‘Wild God,’ Quillette chatted with Australian academic and “Caveologist” Tanya Dalziell about the artist’s music, ideas, and enduring appeal.
Springsteen and the rock critics.
Elvis Costello at three score and ten.
Richard Morton Jack’s comprehensive new biography of Nick Drake offers a glimpse of a brilliant but troubled soul.
When we create art, we are our best selves, better than the selves we are outside of art.
Robyn Hitchcock’s new memoir takes us back to 1967—a year the British singer-songwriter never outgrew.
A new book celebrates Springsteen’s stark 1982 classic, ‘Nebraska.’
“Things were bleak, they really were. Yet nobody was singing about that side of life, which is why we thought we should.”
Netflix somehow managed to turn the most talented, beloved, and complex American musician in history into a two-dimensional domestic villain.
The musical legacy of Robbie Robertson is a monument to the possibilities of American song.
Menacing, exuberant, eccentric, and ambitious—Dylan’s first evangelical record turns two-score and four.
A historic diary in pictures, which just happens to belong to Sir Paul McCartney.
Neither hagiographers nor haters of the late musician, actor, and activist have managed to get him right.