Music

Some Notes on Song

By John Berger,

The rhythms of listening

Sub Sub Pop

By Glenn McDonald,

From a list of 1,266 musical genres compiled by Glenn McDonald, creator of everynoise.com, which seeks to produce a comprehensive music-classification system. Read More

Virtualsity

By Michael Barron, on August 6, 2014

Inventing the instruments of the future

The Twenty-Three Best Train Songs Ever Written—Maybe

By Kevin Baker, on June 26, 2014

From Johnny Cash to “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”

Dottie’s Charms, by Jill Sobule

By Harper’s Magazine, on May 1, 2014

The new album from singer-songerwriter Jill Sobule

My Top 5 Metal Albums and Their Poetic Counterparts

By Michael Robbins, on April 16, 2014

Havoc, and spoil, and ruin be thy gain

Carnival in Jacmel

By Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, on March 4, 2014

Despite lingering effects from a 2010 earthquake, Haiti still throws a good party

New Power Generation

By Hilton Als, on December 12, 2012

Why I write about Prince

Controversy

By Harper’s Magazine, on December 3, 2012

On the matter of conscious v. conscience in Prince's "I Would Die 4 U"

Dope beats

By Harper’s Staff,

Last Man Standing

By Joshua Cohen,

The acquisitive music of John Zorn

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