music essay

Musicians don’t care about your kegs of beer. What they’d like is a good meal.

This piece of history, courtesy of producer Mark Saunders, was trapped on an old iPod — until now. Bowie spoofs Tom Waits, Lou Reed and other icons.

A professional drummer and Spotify brainiac shares some valuable lessons she’s learned along the way.

Rose McGowan, Alex Cox, Allison Anders, Bruce LaBruce and more remember the late iconic performer.

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.