Music

Talking With Jeff Tweedy Talking With Jeff Tweedy

Jeff Tweedy may be best known to Nation readers as Billy Bragg's collaborator (along with his band Wilco) on the Mermaid Avenue recordings of recent years--two great albums that s...

Apr 11, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey

Folk’s Missing Link Folk’s Missing Link

I was in high school in the 1960s when I first saw Dave Van Ronk at the Gaslight, one of those little cellar clubs that used to line a Greenwich Village that now lives in myth an...

Apr 4, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro

Artists Strike a Chord Artists Strike a Chord

Johnny Temple plays bass guitar in the rock bands Girls Against Boys and New Wet Kojak and is the publisher of Akashic Books (www.akashicbooks.com).

Feb 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Johnny Temple

Wild, Wild West Wild, Wild West

You may have read, in these pages and elsewhere [see Danny Goldberg, "Harvard Raps West," February 4], about the flap that Harvard University's president, Lawrence Summers, kicke...

Jan 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour

Harvard Raps West Harvard Raps West

As the chairman of Artemis Records, the company that released Cornel West's CD, Sketches of My Culture, I considered criticizing Cornel for his association with Lawrence Summers,...

Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Danny Goldberg

‘The Light for the Heart’ ‘The Light for the Heart’

The first Arabic music I heard was in its native habitat, while riding on gaudily painted buses through Turkey, Morocco and Syria in the 1960s. Before the drivers thrashed their ...

Jan 10, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jim Motavalli

Trafficking in Verse Trafficking in Verse

Immigrants and traffickers are the subjects of a certain style of Mexican music.

Dec 20, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans

On the Record: Toward a Union Label On the Record: Toward a Union Label

Courtney Love's plea to fellow recording artists to join her in the creation of a new musicians' guild, printed below, is the latest blow to the beleaguered "Big Five

Sep 6, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Courtney Love and Johnny Temple

Eminem: Grammy’s Homecoming Queen? Eminem: Grammy’s Homecoming Queen?

So if you managed to endure CBS's three-plus hours of Grammy cov erage, if you survived the sparsely attended protests from GLAAD and NOW, host Jon Stewart's lame commentary, the ...

Jul 9, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim

Blowin’ in His Own Wind

Blowin’ in His Own Wind Blowin’ in His Own Wind

How the protest singer turned surrealistic prophet.

May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro

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