music essay

Ruth Garbus on performance and staying "balanced on the beam of healthy self."

Morgan Enos (Other Houses) on coming back to the ‘90s heroes and their refractory masterpiece.

Shirley Manson (Garbage) remembers the once-in-a-lifetime artist.

Hana Bryanne’s brief inquiry into the “online sad girl.”

Cormac Sheehan waxes philosophical on Antipodean rock & roll.

Why Buick Audra wrote a concept album about Massachusetts.

Hana Bryanne on Tumblr Feminism and growing up online.

Alex Riggs pays tribute to "the champion of working class queers."

Wila Frank writes about how songwriting helped connect her to her father after his passing.

John Strohm on how his new record was inspired by his late friend, the musician Ed Ackerson.

GracieHorse talks "hot spring culture," and how it inspired her new track.

The singer-songwriter talks the creative and financial benefits she’s found in re-recording her music.