Death of a Repentant Iconoclast
Steve Albini and the new problem with music.
Ari Gandsman
· 25 min read
Music
A collection of 71 posts
Talking Nick Cave Blues
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.
David Cohen
· 13 min read
Born to Boss
Springsteen and the rock critics.
David Cohen
· 14 min read
Seventy Years of Spite and Sophistication
Elvis Costello at three score and ten.
Dave Thompson
· 20 min read
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Richard Morton Jack’s comprehensive new biography of Nick Drake offers a glimpse of a brilliant but troubled soul.
Matt Hanson
· 10 min read
Art over Man: The Roger Waters Test Case
When we create art, we are our best selves, better than the selves we are outside of art.
Thomas P. Balazs
· 9 min read
England’s Daydreaming
Robyn Hitchcock’s new memoir takes us back to 1967—a year the British singer-songwriter never outgrew.
Dave Thompson
· 12 min read
The Road Out of Nowhere
A new book celebrates Springsteen’s stark 1982 classic, ‘Nebraska.’
Matt Hanson
· 6 min read
Master of Reality
“Things were bleak, they really were. Yet nobody was singing about that side of life, which is why we thought we should.”
George Case
· 8 min read
Leonard Bernstein Deserved Better Than ‘Maestro’
Netflix somehow managed to turn the most talented, beloved, and complex American musician in history into a two-dimensional domestic villain.
Daniel Lelchuk
· 9 min read
Rock of Ages
The musical legacy of Robbie Robertson is a monument to the possibilities of American song.
Benjamin Kerstein
· 12 min read
In the Spirit of the Lord
Menacing, exuberant, eccentric, and ambitious—Dylan’s first evangelical record turns two-score and four.
David Cohen
· 16 min read
The Eyes of the Storm
A historic diary in pictures, which just happens to belong to Sir Paul McCartney.
Hannah Gal
· 14 min read
An Egregious Misreading of History
In his first book, Philip Ewell employs mistranslations and deceptively edited quotations to defame Viennese-Jewish music theorist Heinrich Schenker.
Barry Wiener
· 17 min read
Belafonte Reappraised
Neither hagiographers nor haters of the late musician, actor, and activist have managed to get him right.
Ronald Radosh
· 18 min read