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Posted inTop 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads October 28, 2022November 9, 2022

This week’s list features stories from Shara Johnson. Paul Fischer, John Woodrow Cox, Marc Hogan, and Angelica Jade Bastién.

Posted inEditor's Pick

“The Anti-Woodstock ’99”: An Oral History of the Tibetan Freedom Concert

by Peter Rubin October 26, 2022October 26, 2022

“The 1996 San Francisco concert set the template for combining music and activism in the 1990s.”

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Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads July 1, 2022October 19, 2022

This week, our editors recommend notable features and essays by Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Justin Heckert, Gloria Liu, Sharon Levy, and Mychal Denzel Smith.

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Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads June 3, 2022October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Jeremy Redmon, Alex Perry, Jeremy D. Larson, Kevin Nguyen, and Egill Bjarnason.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Woes of Being Addicted to Streaming

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 2, 2022October 19, 2022

The reviews editor at Pitchfork writes about the effects of streaming music on listeners and artists, the differences between passive and intentional music consumption, and the overall loss of our individual connection to music. The more time I spend on Spotify, the more it pushes me away from the outer edges of the platform and […]

Posted inReading List

The Power and Business of Hip-Hop: A Reading List on an American Art Form

by Aaron Gilbreath June 10, 2020November 25, 2022

Stories of hip-hop’s genius, influence, struggle, and endurance.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

The Messy Making of a Nearly Perfect Hip-Hop Album

by Aaron Gilbreath April 2, 2020October 19, 2022

Music as original as Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s sounds evergreen, but originality came with a high personal cost for its maker.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Auto-Tune: The Music Fad That Keeps on Giving

by Aaron Gilbreath September 25, 2018October 19, 2022

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

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Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads June 29, 2018October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from John Lanchester, Bethany Barnes, Stephen Kearse, Warren Ellis, and Soraya Roberts.

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Posted inArts & Culture, Quotes

The Gifts of (a) Prince

by Pam Mandel April 24, 2017October 19, 2022

Prince gave a lot of music away—much of it to women he thought would do it justice.

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