Last Year’s Model: On Simon Reynolds Last Year’s Model: On Simon Reynolds
A critic of pop’s retro turn can’t shake his own strain of pop nostalgia.
Jan 4, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Sara Marcus
Miley Cyrus Comes Out for OWS Miley Cyrus Comes Out for OWS
&ldquotLiberty Walk,” the one percenter teen sensation’s catchy, if repetitive, remixed single sets her music to laudatory images from OWS encampments throughout th...
Nov 29, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Peter Rothberg
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Out of the Vinyl Deeps catalogs Ellen Willis’s pop years.
Oct 26, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Top Ten Songs About Class Top Ten Songs About Class
Since every great protest movement needs its culture, here's my stab at a list of the ten best songs ever written about class and poverty in tribute to #OccupyWallStreet.
Oct 3, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Peter Rothberg
Top Ten Songs About Women’s Equality Top Ten Songs About Women’s Equality
In honor of today's 91st anniversary of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote, here's my completely assailable list of the top ten songs about women's equal...
Aug 26, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Peter Rothberg
This Is a Recording: On Alan Lomax This Is a Recording: On Alan Lomax
How Alan Lomax became the most significant Baedeker of America’s folkways.
Aug 24, 2011 / Books & the Arts / David Yaffe
Crazy, Stupid, Republicans Crazy, Stupid, Republicans
Eric has never written for US News, and he is frustrated with T-Mobile.
Aug 12, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Top Ten Songs About Nuclear War Top Ten Songs About Nuclear War
Fear of nuclear apocalypse has provided serious creative juice for songwriters and musicians of all genres.
Aug 5, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Peter Rothberg
Special Schadenfreude Edition… Special Schadenfreude Edition…
Eric reviews Paul McCartney, Raul Malo and Elvis Costello, and Reed sees the ghost of the Republican party's past.
Jul 21, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
NxtGen: Stuff the Cuts NxtGen: Stuff the Cuts
For those concerned that there's no good protest music out there, the English hip-hop group NxtGen is using rap to take searing aim at the British government’s austerity budg...
Jun 30, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Peter Rothberg