Rock musicians Archives

Rock musicians

An Anthropologist of Filth

by Ian Penman,

On Chuck Berry

Images of America in Rock and Roll

by Randal Doane,

Portraits by Hamell on Trial

Tenure Road

Titles of articles included in the first issue of BOSS: The Biannual Online-Journal of Springsteen Studies, published this August.

I Am Your Conscious, I Am Love

by Hilton Als,

A paean 2 Prince

Give Bleach a Chance

by John Lennon,

From a 1979 letter by John Lennon to a laundry in New York City, where Lennon lived with his wife, Yoko Ono. The John Lennon Letters was published by Little,…

Group Think

by Ian F. (Ian Folke) Svenonius,

From Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ’n’ Roll Group, by Ian F. Svenonius, to be published in January by Akashic Books. Svenonius was the front man for several bands,…

Something in the way

by Harper’s Staff,

G.O.P.Y.T.

by Ronald Reagan,

A letter from Ronald Reagan to Michael Jackson, dated February 1, 1984, five days after the singer’s hair was set afire by pyrotechnics during the filming of a Pepsi commercial.…

War gigs

by Harper’s Staff,

Axis of evil

by Jean-Baptiste Kim,

Bold as love

They call me Doctor Love

by Terry Gross,