By Sara Bright So, Taylor Swift has a new album out. The usual tidal wave of attention, the broken records, the breathless analysis. But we’re…
By Sara Bright There is a quality to Mariah Carey’s fame that feels almost architetural. It is a vast, ornate structure, built over decades, with…
By Tessa Nolan The moment the victor was announced, it felt less like the climax of a song contest and more like the quiet, deliberate…
By Tessa Nolan In the carefully choreographed theatre of British royalty, the most radical act is not rebellion, but disappearance. To simply walk away, not…
Peter Blake's Sgt. Pepper's cover defined British pop art. Its triumph also created a perfect prison - a shadow the movement couldn't escape.
By Tessa Nolan “DC, Fairfax, wherever the f**k we are,” snarled Liam Gallagher, frontman of the British music group Oasis, as the final, swirling chords…
By Alexander Stone There is a specific, grainy quality to the memory of the year 1999. It is the memory of late-night music television, of…
By Sara Bright When Taylor Swift announced her next album would be released on cassette, the collective cultural response was a bemused shrug. In an…
By Maria Bregman, writer and music critic To understand the year 2000, you have to understand Fred Durst. To see him then, at the absolute…
By Sara Bright The Price of the Ticket The countdown clock is a crude instrument of suspense. A simple, descending sequence of numbers designed to…