Tag: music writing

Journalist John O’Connor talks about writing his epic Oxford American magazine feature on musician Link Wray.

In Detroit’s empty buildings and troubled streets, restless kids squatted, ran punk clubs, pressed their own records, and made their own magazine. They mostly stayed out of trouble.

An oral history of the night Nirvana recorded “Unplugged,” their most tender, original live performance.

With approximately 75 percent of golden age gospel music lost, the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project is trying to save what’s left.

As the band dissolved, they managed to capture their destruction in some dark, powerful music.

In hip-hop and skateboarding, one young man finds an outlet for his aggression.

An album that took five months to record sat in the vault for 20 years before finally getting pressed to vinyl.

Emerick engineered more than The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. He helped re-engineer the way music got made.

On one summer day in 1998, XXL magazine gathered 177 hip-hop artists for one of the greatest musical photographs of all time: A Great Day in Hip-Hop.

Cultural critic Simon Reynolds looks at 20 years of Auto-Tune.

The story of the Velvet Underground’s fourth album that almost never was.

Unraveling the mystery of the shirtless hippie who danced at countless rock shows in the UK during the last quarter of the 20th century.