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Here’s How Candidates Can Use Songs in Their Campaigns, Even If Songwriters...
On June 16, 2015, Donald Trump descended an escalator to the blaring soundtrack of Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World" and announced that he was running for president. Young, a Canadian citizen,...
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Drake Sampling Kyla on "One Dance" Has Already Changed Her Life
In 2007, DJ and producer Errol Reid, under the alias Paleface, released a single called "Do You Mind" on his own Northern Line Records. Featuring a singer credited simply as Kyla, the track was...
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10 Times Hell Has Frozen Over Since the Last Avalanches Album
You may have heard that the Avalanches are “officially back together,” hitting the road for festival dates and a tour. It ends one hell of a hiatus, and marks the only concrete piece of news...
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Why a Lawsuit Says "We Shall Overcome" Belongs to Everyone
Last year, a federal judge overturned decades of copyright claims to the song "Happy Birthday to You." On Tuesday, the winning legal team in that case brought a lawsuit challenging the copyright to...
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Revisiting the Magnificent Excess of Guns N’ Roses' Use Your Illusion Video...
After breaking his foot at a warm-up show, Axl Rose was forced to perform his somewhat-reunited band’s first big gig of the year sitting down. He didn’t just plop down in a La-Z-Boy, though. His...
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Why Pitchfork Made a Magazine About Jazz
Last Thursday night at the Whitney in New York City, 87-year-old Cecil Taylor, in an exuberant, multicolor jacket and a little brown knit cap, sat down at the piano and played some out-of-this-world...
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Lisa Simpson's Second Grade Blues
Lisa Simpson is the littlest jazz icon around. This much is obvious during the opening sequence of her family's eponymous show in which the eight year old with a starfish hairdo breaks procedure at...
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Op-Ed: North Carolina’s Transgender Fight Needs Musicians to Show Up
On Saturday night, Simon Le Bon did what I assume he does during most of Duran Duran’s shows on their current tour. Between set-opener “Paper Gods” and throwback hit “The Wild Boys,” Le Bon turned to...
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Music Sales Actually Grew Last Year at Their Fastest Pace Since Napster
For the music industry, 1999 was a very good year. At a time of blockbuster albums, including Britney Spears' ...Baby One More Time, Ricky Martin's self-titled CD, and the Backstreet Boys' Millennium,...
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The Other A Love Supreme
In 1995, Supreme New York was not much more than a year-old skate shop in pre-commercialized Soho. The streetwear brand made a few local waves after slapping their stickers across Kate Moss Calvin...
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7 Quintessential Remixes from the DFA
This past weekend, there was a chance you made a pilgrimage westward to Coachella to witness the reunification of LCD Soundsystem. Or perhaps you are soon to be en route for the second weekend of the...
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Beyonce’s Ivy Park Gets Cozy Girls in Formation
The hardest thing about being a Beyoncé fan is the crowd. She didn’t name it the hive for nothing—there’s no exclusivity for anything she gives to the public. She is the biggest star in the world and...
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WJZZ
Jazz radio hosts are instantly recognizable, all seemingly schooled in the ways of making the recitation of endless dates, albums, labels, nicknames, and quirks sound reverential. They are the...
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Tim Hecker on Kurt Cobain's Sweat and John Travolta’s Plastic Surgery
Our new interview series Icebreaker features artists talking about things—some strange, some amusing, some meaningful—that just might reveal their true selves. This edition stars Los Angeles-based...
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Why Viet Cong Have Changed Their Name: An Interview With Frontman Matt Flegel
Few people are likely to find fault with the word "Preoccupations," the new name of the band formerly known as Viet Cong. It wasn't even their idea. Credit goes to Chad VanGaalen, who presented the...
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WJZZ: A Guide to Jazz Radio's Weird Sages
Jazz radio hosts are instantly recognizable, all seemingly schooled in the ways of making the recitation of endless dates, albums, labels, nicknames, and quirks sound reverential. They are the...
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Camels in Chanhassen: The Surrealistic Prince
Somewhere between March 14th and March 15th, 1986, Prince had a dream. The dream was about a woman and a bathtub and a waitress. When he woke up, he wrote down some lyrics and called it “The Ballad of...
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Mourning Prince, Online and Off
I would like to formally thank whoever manages the NFL’s YouTube channel for helping me—and millions of other frustrated viewers—mourn Prince. In the wake of his shocking death yesterday, one ofthe...
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Mourning Prince Online in the Absence of Media
I would like to formally thank whoever manages the NFL’s YouTube channel for helping me—and millions of other frustrated viewers—mourn Prince. In the wake of his shocking death yesterday, one ofthe...
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How Prince Changed Minneapolis
For at least three decades, no Minneapolis musician could pretend for an instant that he or she would be as famous as Prince. Or as cool as Prince. Or as innovative. That kind of total cultural...
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