This year, many of the books we loved most used music as a lens through which to examine broader issues of politics, history, and identity — whether it was the story of capitalist circulation as heard ...

In 2020, as the pandemic forced everyone who didn’t live on a megayacht to upend their entire lives, retreating into the nostalgia of one’s youth became an all-but-necessary coping mechanism. Veteran ...

In the opening pages of You’re History, Australian writer Lesley Chow argues that close listening is missing from modern music writing: “The overwhelming critical tendency is to review the stance ...