Selena Gomez and the Perils of Confessional Pop
Does vulnerability in pop pay off?
Does vulnerability in pop pay off?
Charlie Harding, Nate SloanMay 29, 2020
Talking to a rock icon during a pandemic
Alex ScordelisMay 26, 2020
LARB presents the May installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Greil MarcusMay 22, 2020
Oliver Wang revisits the antihero tales of crime and grime of the 1995 legacy-making album “The Infamous” by Mobb Deep on its 25th anniversary.
Oliver WangMay 22, 2020
Dave Mandl takes five with “Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time” by Philip Clark.
Dave MandlMay 10, 2020
Pamela Thurschwell looks to songs by Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and John Prine to make sense of COVID-19.
Pamela ThurschwellMay 1, 2020
Melissa Chan considers the state of classical music in the age of coronavirus.
Melissa ChanApr 27, 2020
LARB presents the April installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Greil MarcusApr 24, 2020
Quinn Roberts explores the entrancing contradictions of Madonna’s legacy.
Quinn RobertsApr 16, 2020
Andrew Holter talks with Grace Elizabeth Hale, writer of “Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture.”
Andrew HolterApr 11, 2020
Jeff Melnick considers the rise of alternative music in the American South, as discussed in Grace Hale’s new hybrid ethnography-memoir, “Cool Town.”
Jeff MelnickApr 11, 2020
Yuval Sharon has made it clear to the opera world that Los Angeles has a unique style that reflects its immensity.
James C. TaylorMar 28, 2020
LARB presents the March installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Greil MarcusMar 27, 2020
LARB presents the February installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Greil MarcusFeb 21, 2020
Listening to Marty Robbins’s classic 1959 album “Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs.”
Drew BratcherFeb 1, 2020
LARB presents the January installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Greil MarcusJan 24, 2020
Perwana Nazif reads across the works and correspondences of John Cage and Merce Cunningham.
Perwana NazifJan 23, 2020
What Tom Waits has to teach us about the coming global catastrophe.
Robert Cashin RyanJan 19, 2020
Joseph Horowitz on Nicolas Nabokov, classical music, and the Cold War.
Joseph HorowitzJan 4, 2020
A rocker from the 1990s looks back with regret and resolve.
Dean KuipersDec 28, 2019
LARB presents the December installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Greil MarcusDec 27, 2019
In the last installment of the "All the Poets" series, Scott Timberg talks to musician Robert Forster about the writers who inspire him.
Scott TimbergDec 24, 2019
Los Angeles lost a beloved local writer and his friends remember him.
Tom Zoellner, Lynell George, Stanton Hall, Richard Thompson, Charles McNulty, Janet Fitch, Steve Wasserman, Ted Gioia, Andy Hermann, Joe Donnelly, Bill Holdship, Tony Ortega, Tim Appelo, Dean Kuipers, Alissa Quart, Robert George, Willis Peter Bilderback, Jeff Turrentine, Dana GioiaDec 16, 2019
David Breithaupt interviews musician and activist Simon Tam.
David BreithauptDec 5, 2019