Forever Pushing Agendas: An Interview with Jessica Hopper
Stephen M. Deusner interviews Jessica Hopper.
Stephen M. Deusner interviews Jessica Hopper.
In his new biography, John Szwed argues Billie Holiday was a method actor: she burrowed to the core of the song, determined what type of person might...
"Rock ’n’ roll acts as a language rather than a genre — one whose health is measured not by chart positions or album sales, but by artists and...
IN 1966, when Leonard Cohen was recording his debut album at Columbia Records’s Studio E in New York, he was assigned a producer named John Simon...
IN HIS NEW BOOK, Joel Selvin describes three different recordings of the song “Twist and Shout.” Two were not simply big hits, but seminal contributio...
Why the Staples Sisters Matter
In his epic new biography, Johnny Cash: The Life, Robert Hilburn explores both sides of his subject and how they were in constant conflict.