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Catherine Lash / HBO HBO’s Woodstock ’99 Documentary Is a Dark Warning
Just as concerts return, a new film reveals the cynicism and cultural rot that led to one of the most notorious shows ever.
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Shira Inbar What Will Happen to My Music Library When Spotify Dies?
If your entire collection is on a streaming service, good luck accessing it in 10 or 20 years.
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Kevin Mazur / Getty; Tommaso Boddi / WireImage … The Pop Music You Listen to Really Does Matter
The story of Dr. Luke and Doja Cat shows how the industry relies on consumer passivity. But audiences can still stand against alleged abusers.
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Rich Fury / Getty We’ve Never Heard Britney Spears Like This
The pop star wants to live on her own terms. To do that, she had to give one more brutal performance.
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Jade Derosa The Internet Mocked Her as a Teenager. It’s Embracing Her Now.
The generation that grew up with Rebecca Black’s “Friday” isn’t just nostalgic for that novelty tune—it’s making music inspired by it.
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Jake Michaels Hollywood’s New Crown Prince of Musicals
Jon M. Chu, the director of In the Heights and Wicked, is finding a new edge in an old genre.
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Parlophone / Capitol The 2001 Album That Captured Modern Dread
Two decades later, Radiohead’s experimental Amnesiac might be the band’s best record.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Tim Roney … The Aughts Seem Both Cooler and Sadder in Retrospect
A wave of young musicians is reclaiming the pop culture of the 2000s—and reckoning with the era’s dark side.
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Geffen Records Pop’s Buzziest New Songwriter Knows Exactly What to Say
Olivia Rodrigo’s sharp debut album, Sour, confirms that metaphor and ambiguity are so last generation.
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Michael Ochs Archives/Getty The 1970s Fashion Designer Who Was Outlandishly Ahead of His Time
Twenty years ago, fashion lost the visionary designer—and prophet—behind P-Funk and Kiss.
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Zackery Michael St. Vincent and the Limits of Rock-and-Roll Mystique
The artist’s new record—and the accidental controversy it caused—shows how mysteriousness can be a kind of defensiveness.
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History Colorado / The Atlantic The Song That Sold America to a Generation of Asian Immigrants
John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” had an unlikely resonance across Asia 50 years ago. Today his ode to West Virginia conjures a different type of longing.
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Republic Records / Big Machine Records / The … Taylor Swift Knew Everything When She Was Young
The singer’s rerecording of her second album makes a statement about her past—and delivers a blow to her rivals.
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Noam Galai / Getty The Fierce Vulnerability of DMX
The rapper, who has died at age 50, used his gruff voice to project strength—even as he spoke honestly about human weakness.
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Rhonda Graam / HBO The Final Word on Tina Turner
The HBO documentary Tina gives the singer the last say on a life that was, for long periods, out of her own hands.
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OBB Media Stars Now Understand That Their Destruction Is Our Entertainment
The latest in a line of revealing pop documentaries, Dancing With the Devil shares the brutal details of Demi Lovato’s drug overdose—even though sharing brings its own risks.
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Kevin Winter / Getty The Odd Pattern That Keeps Happening at the Grammys
The show has a tradition of white artists dedicating their awards to their Black peers who lost.
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Jason Kempin / Getty The Biggest Country Musician in America Is a Disgrace
After saying a racial slur and being exiled from radio, Morgan Wallen has become only more popular. What’s going on?
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Lauren Tamaki Can Classical Music Make a Comeback?
Caroline Shaw is often cited as proof that the genre has an exciting future.
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Emma McIntyre / AMA2019 / Getty / The … Taylor Swift Misses the Old Taylor Swift, Too
The artist’s first release from her re-recording project is much more than a nostalgia play. It’s a love letter.
