Born to Boss
Springsteen and the rock critics.
A collection of 47 posts
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.
A tribute to Chris Bailey, the late frontman and co-founder of Australian punk band the Saints, who died a year ago today.
Reappraising one of British journalism’s most notorious pieces of cultural criticism.
The singer’s new book awakened me to a paradoxical fact: tragedy can sometimes remind us of what makes life worth living.