Music
Genuine Alternatives: The War on Drugs, Fever Ray, Julien Baker, Moses Sumney
Four new albums go from a bland, booming pastiche of rock noises to questioning notions of coupledom and the possibility of love.
Music
Books
The Aspirational Living and Jet-Setting of Midcentury Vinyl LPs
Designed for Hi-Fi Living delves beyond the kitsch of midcentury album art to explore the aspirational lifestyles, and travel destinations, in its visuals.
Music
Case Studies in Musical Hooks: Father John Misty, Galantis, Ed Sheeran, Ashik Reza
Craft in itself means nothing unless it reaches total flawlessness.
Music
The Killers’ Glamor, Sincerity, and Kitsch
Wonderful Wonderful is almost embarrassingly intense, indecorously intimate, forgetting to blush while expressing feelings too huge for the songs to contain.
Music
An Intimate Classical Series Staged in a Manhattan Crypt
The Crypt Sessions fill one of Manhattan's overlooked spaces — the crypt at the Church of the Intercession — with unconventional classical music.
Books
From Chocolate Gramophones to MP3s: The History of Sound in Images
The Art of Sound: A Visual History for Audiophiles by Terry Burrows is an illustrated history of recorded sound, from gramophones to the rise of digital.
Music
An Organ Gets a Noble Send-Off as a 1928 Brooklyn Theater Is Being Restored
Before the Brooklyn Paramount undergoes a two-year restoration into a performance space, a concert showed off its 1920s Wurlitzer organ.
Music
Tom Petty R.I.P.
For Tom Petty, rock 'n' roll means playing a good show for the crowd every night, every week, every month, indefinitely.
Performance
A New Opera Tells the Story of a Paleoart Pioneer Through His Granddaughter's Eyes
On Site Opera's Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt in the dinosaur hall of the American Museum of Natural History explores the paleoart of Charles Knight.
Music
LCD Soundsystem Looks in the Mirror, Again
LCD Soundsystem's American Dream is a passably punkoid rock album, fiery in places, elsewhere clunky.
Music
Where Body Meets Machine
The music of Japanese Breakfast’s Soft Sounds from Another Planet trembles, alive with possibility.
Art
Discover Over 1,700 Photos and Ephemera from the Early Years of Hip-Hop Online
The Sugar Hill Gang, Public Enemy, Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, and other hip-hop pioneers feature in the newly digitized material from Cornell University.