Stereophonic is a love letter to creation
It’s the story of a mid-Seventies rock band coming to terms with success
Music
Monday
Tuesday
Britney Spears’s much-anticipated memoir is a desperate cry for help
Once again, America owes the singer an apology — just not for the reasons she suspects
The birth, death and rebirth of American Psycho: The Musical
In the year 2023, improbably as always, the musical proved a success
Friday
The great Marty Stuart, possessor of one of popular music’s legendary guitars
He stands five-foot-seven in his stocking feet, but with Clarence White’s Telecaster slung around his neck, he looks ten feet tall
Age is catching up with our much-beloved musicians
In our increasingly secular age, we worship rock stars as our deities, as figures who inspire our hopes and dreams and fantasies of excess
George Harrison at eighty
Of the four Beatles, Harrison was the most attuned to, and wary of, the mania side of Beatlemania
Thursday
Let’s start another war to stop Antony Blinken singing
The secretary of state wants to change the world one song at a time
Wednesday
Bernie Taupin is more than just ‘Elton John’s lyricist’
The songwriter’s book is free of sentimental clutter, but it would take a heart of stone not to be moved by the takeaway message
Sunday
The history of a Britney Spears masterpiece
Blackout laid the foundation for the EDM revolution, Lady Gaga’s self-referential debut album and the rest of the past fifteen years of pop
Wednesday
I’m a forty-year-old male Swiftie. No, I’m not ashamed
Taylor Swift is the finest tune crafter of the last generation — maybe even the last two
Thursday
Tina Turner was greater than a rock star
She was something much more universal: a survivor
Sunday
How Madonna turned pop culture Catholic
On the fortieth anniversary of her debut album, Madonna remains a good Catholic girl at heart
Thursday
Lana Del Rey’s new record: samey, stale, sterile
Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd could have been better
Tuesday
Listen: Kamala Harris’s Afrobeats playlist
Is the Veep trying to model herself after Obama?
Wednesday
A century of Bing Crosby
In the spring of 1923 in Spokane, Washington, you might have stumbled upon a young jug-eared drummer…
Wednesday
Playing God with Paramore
What happens when someone who was cool because they were hated is suddenly accepted?
Saturday
What’s the latest on the Madonna biopic?
What we know so far about the ‘nightmare’ production
Tuesday
The Whitney Houston biopic is a big, gay masterpiece
When Hollywood gets representation right
Tuesday
Bob Dylan’s tower of song
The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan reviewed
Friday
Bob Dylan’s curious book signing controversy
Can celebrities use an autopen? The times, they are a-changing
