Music

Lorsque nous venons au monde, la musique est déjà là.

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Shelved for over 20 years, Sam Cooke's Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, stands alongside Otis Redding's Live in Europe and James Brown's Live at the Apollo as one of the finest live soul albums ever made.

When the Motor City 5 stormed the stage, the band combined the kinetic flash of James Brown on acid with the raw musical dynamics of the Who gone berserk.

ESG were one of the first bands to sign to British indie label Factory Records, working with famed producer Martin Hannett on their early EPs.

Like all double albums, Songs in the Key of Life is imperfect but audacious.

Growing up in a large Italian family, Aida Mulieri-Dagort wanted to be a professional musician all her life.

Warn me?

Blondie's Parallel Lines mixed punk, disco and radio-friendly FM rock with nostalgic influences from 1960s pop and girl group hits.

Courtney Love has never been less than notorious.

One of the greatest double albums of the vinyl era, Sign 'O' the Times shows Prince at his peak.

Die jüdische Musik Osteuropas, als Klezmermusik bekannt, ist ein beinahe versunkenes Juwel der europäischen Musiktradition.

Red Hot + Blue is a meditation on music's capacity to find us, transform us, and help us make sense of our historical moment.

When Don Rhodes took his seat not far behind Michael Jackson at the funeral of the "e;Godfather of Soul"e; on December 30, 2006, it marked the close of a forty-year friendship.

The Jesus and Mary Chain's swooning debut Psychocandy seared through the underground and through the pop charts, shifting the role of noise within pop music forever.

The question of control for Black women is a costly one.

From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James "e;J Dilla"e; Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform.

In a bar called The Bucket of Blood, a man shoots the bartender four times in the head.

In 1973, the musical collective 24-Carat Black released an unheralded masterpiece on Stax Records-and then disappeared.

With Universal Mother, Sinead O'Connor explores childhood trauma and her experiences as a woman, mother, target of scorn, and ultimate phoenix.

Electric Ladyland is one of the greatest guitar albums ever made.

Pet Sounds is, rightly, one of the most celebrated pop albums ever released.

Champagne is flowing in Sloane Square while cash and coke changes hands in the back alleys of Soho.

"e;Essential reading, plain and simple.

In a bar called The Bucket of Blood, a man shoots the bartender four times in the head.

The Dignitas clinic in Switzerland may be a long way away.

Daydream Nation is the kind of gorgeous monstrosity (born of extremes, rife with difficulties, and mythic in proportion) that can crush the will of the most resilient, well-intentioned listener if the necessary preparations haven't been made.

As the third in a musicological trilogy that seeks objective answers to physical and metaphysical questions by way of musical ratios and proportions, this book may start with the acoustical properties of vibrating strings, but it certainly does not stop there.

More than 40 years after her death, the legend of Maria Callas, "e;La Divina Assoluta,"e; remains unsurpassed.

When Cecil B.

SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL SOUND MIXING Mixed Up, Is a hands-on guide for the weekend warrior.

October 1982: ABC, Culture Club, Shalamar and Survivor dominate the top twenty when the Pogues barrel out from the backstreets of King's Cross, a furious, pioneering mix of punk energy, traditional melodies and the powerfully poetic songwriting of Shane MacGowan.

The Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera takes listeners on a road trip through the American South, with stops along mean old highways and soul-sucking swamps, iconic recording studios and doomed chartered jets, and even Heaven and Hell.

Chuck Klosterman has become the pop culture commentator of his time.

Something about the lyrics of many of the hit contemporary Christian worship songs is at best problematic for many clergy persons in mainline denominations.

Ween now seems like a permanent fixture on the pop-cultural landscape, but when the band first hit MTV in the early '90s, their longevity wasn't so secure.

Brigid Brophy first published her passionate, profoundly original Mozart the Dramatist in 1964, revisiting it subsequently in 1988.

A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEAR'A unique insight.

This title offers a superb investigation of what is arguably Johnny Cash's greatest album, focusing on his enduring mythology.

Essays on Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Patti SmithA Financial Times Book of the Year 2023The greatest popular songs, whether it's Aretha Franklin singing 'Respect' or Bob Dylan performing 'Blind Willie McTell', have a way of embedding themselves in our memories.

On the night of Sunday, April 23, 1961 Judy Garland made history.

The question of control for Black women is a costly one.

As the Soviet Union stood on the brink of collapse, thousands of Bukharian Jews left their homes from across the predominantly Muslim cities of Central Asia, to reestablish their lives in the United States, Israel and Europe.

In 1979, from the basement of a London squat, the Raincoats reinvented what punk could be.

Sleater-Kinney's 1997 album Dig Me Out is built on Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein's competing guitars, Janet Weiss's muscular rhythms, and layered vocals that teeter between an urgent, banshee-like vibrato and a lower accompaniment.

ESG were one of the first bands to sign to British indie label Factory Records, working with famed producer Martin Hannett on their early EPs.

Of the many girl-groups that came out of the 1960s, none is more idiosyncratic and influential than the Shangri-Las.

Pianist, author, lecturer and beloved teacher, Barbara Schneiderman shows how parent and child can come together around the joys of making music.

When Twin Peaks debuted on the ABC network on the night of April 8, 1990, thirty-five million viewers tuned in to some of the most unusual television of their lives.

Even at four in the morning, the strip clubs and watering holes surrounding the Honolulu studio were still hopping.