Down and Out in the Top 10
Grizzly Bear and the surprisingly crappy economics of indie rock stardom.
Showing 25 articles matching physics of music.
Grizzly Bear and the surprisingly crappy economics of indie rock stardom.
Nitsuh Abebe New York Oct 2012 25min Permalink
Rae Sremmurd, who held the #1 spot for the last 3 weeks for their song Black Beatles, on the precipice of fame.
Naomi Zeichner The Fader Jun 2016 25min Permalink
An unlikely bipartisan alliance attempts to get Yes into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
David Rowell Washington Post Dec 2013 15min Permalink
In the Winter of 1964, the Fab Four rocket to superstardom in just six weeks.
Steve Greenberg Billboard Feb 2014 Permalink
Searching for Puddles the Clown, whose cover of Lorde’s “Royals” made him an Internet star.
Justin Heckert Grantland Mar 2014 20min Permalink
An excerpt from a new oral history of MTV.
Craig Marks, Rob Tannenbaum Pitchfork Oct 2011 15min Permalink
On the increasing tension between the pleasant, thoughtful indie rock of car commercials and those who insist on something weirder.
Nitsuh Abebe Pitchfork Sep 2009 15min Permalink
An ode to Juiceboxxx, a 27-year-old rapper from Milwaukee no one’s ever heard of.
Leon Neyfakh n+1 Feb 2015 40min Permalink
A profile of Lil Yachty.
Rembert Browne The Fader Jul 2017 20min Permalink
The Brooklyn rapper, fresh out of prison on parole, talks about life on the inside and where he goes next.
Frazier Tharpe GQ Feb 2021 15min Permalink
He outsold Elvis, signed one of the first pay-for-play contracts and befriended Martin Luther King Jr. A profile of Harry Belafonte.
Jeff Sharlet The Virginia Quarterly Review Oct 2013 30min Permalink
A memory of interviewing the late great songwriter Townes Van Zandt shortly before his death.
The bizarre story of the disappearance of “downtown legend” John Lurie after a former friend resolved to take his life.
Tad Friend New Yorker Aug 2010 35min Permalink
Brazilian businessman Zero Freitas has amassed the world’s largest collection of records, the majority of which have never been digitized.
Dominik Bartmanski The Vinyl Factory Aug 2016 15min Permalink
The life of Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, who died from COVID at age 52.
Simon Vozick-Levinson Rolling Stone Apr 2020 15min Permalink
Departing Marrakech by car with a plan to record music for the Library of Congress.
Paul Bowles Holiday Feb 1963 35min Permalink
The rise of One Direction fanfiction that imagines the band members in relationships – with each other.
Amanda Hess Tomorrow Nov 2012 10min Permalink
A barely drinking-age Green Day profiled shortly after the release of Dookie.
Eric Weisbard Spin Sep 1994 10min Permalink
A profile of Hank Williams III.
Elizabeth Gilbert GQ Dec 2000 35min Permalink
The most successful songwriter of the last twenty years is a forty-four year old Swede, Max Martin.
John Seabrook New Yorker Sep 2015 15min Permalink
How a hanger-on at the fringe of San Francisco’s rock scene built the Rolling Stone empire.
David Weir Salon Apr 1999 15min Permalink
Where words fail, there is music.
Shuja Haider Popula Mar 2019 30min Permalink
A profile of the songwriter.
David Malitz Washington Post Jun 2019 15min Permalink
A visit to the Christian rock Cross-Over Festival in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri.
John Jeremiah Sullivan GQ Feb 2004 45min Permalink
Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.
David Dayen The Prospect Mar 2021 30min Permalink