Music
A communal monument to one rapper that also celebrates community in the context of political horror (they didn’t predict the election either). Phife, inevitably, becomes a symbol. So does the whole Tribe.
Art
Europeana Radio is a new platform to access thousands of historic tracks from audio collections in European libraries, universities, and other institutions.
Art
Recent books by Tim Lawrence and Douglas Crimp underline the close relationship between the New York art scene of the 1970s and '80s and that most unjustly maligned of musical movements, disco.
Music
Blonde is a consistent, coherent, well-crafted album, but it feels anticlimactic. It’s a retreat.
Music
His songs still stand as some of the most evocative descriptions of queer desire to achieve broad commercial success.
Art
The best work of 2016 in the land of metal, noise, avant rock, out-there jazz, and in-there experimental.
Music
Just like intimacy, holiday spirit exists simply because you believe it does. That’s why Christmas is so eternally rock & roll.
Music
Vocal snobs had better get used to Auto-Tune, because it ain’t going away.
Music
Harpist Zeena Parkins's project LACE translates the visuals of lace fragments and knitting charts into notation for instruments.
Music
In addition to everything else he was — poet, wordsmith, conceptmaster, religious seeker, suave scruffy ladies’ man, Zen monk, belated concert fixture — he was also a major political songwriter.
Music
Usually I mix positive reviews with mixed ones. Given recent events I couldn’t bear to be mean — I'm working up to it, I swear — so here are four albums that I love.
Music
In 1959, Paul Bowles traveled around Morocco with an audio recording device to capture a cultural moment he knew was on the verge of disappearing.