music essay

After five weeks on tour, our hero wonders two things: how to re-enter civilian life and how to get the smell of koala bear out of his jean jacket.

A musician who wrote a new Christmas song talks about how there are too many Christmas songs.

The story of the Director, the Actor, the Guest Star Who Has Seen It All, and a very large, very hungry African lion called Sudan.

The only thing that this novelist-musician knows for sure is that writing fiction about music is fucking hard.

Read on for a hair-raising tale of raining frogs, taxidermy and the Vortex.

During the madness that is tour, you can enter a unique and enchanted headspace. That's when it becomes surreal, magical and, above all else, fun.

Our cartoonist recounts how his obsession with the band started — and the greatest advice he never gave.

A great performer plays with the audience's idea of who the human being behind the character is. Lana Del Rey is a great performer.

Part II of the artist-producer's fungally inspired adventures into his creative process and his upcoming album, with FKA twigs, El-P and Frank Ocean.

We have to break the habit of not paying for art. Because there's something important at stake: supporting the kind of world you want to live in.

On the creative need to be a control freak — an empowering, exhausting balancing act that requires constant awareness, consideration and nurturing.

At a recent arena show, Nicki Minaj performed with flawless sweat, exorcised her sensitive side and offered her audience something precious: hope.