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12 August 2008
Chicago 2008:The Lollapalooza and Pitchfork Music
Festivals
Political and musical perspectives
21 July 2008
Real Emotional Trash from
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
14 June 2008
A concert in Atlanta: Behzad Ranjbaran's Concerto
for Piano and Orchestra
18 March 2008
Two new "cover albums": Shelby Lynne's Just
a Little Lovin' and Cat Power's Jukebox
26 January 2008
Year Zero: Trent Reznor
looks outside himself
19 January 2008
"Neon
Bible" by the Arcade Fire: Where to from here?
4 January 2008
The
art of Oscar Peterson: legacy of a jazz piano virtuoso
18 December 2007
Das Reichsorchester--The
Berlin Philharmonic and the Nazis
12 December 2007
An
evening with the Cleveland Orchestra
20 August 2007
Drummer
Max Roach dies: Last of the bebop pioneers
4 August 2007
The
music of Richard Buckner
5 April 2007
Allen
Ginsberg's "Howl": Fifty years later and in its own
time
20 October 2006
A fresh look at Mozart--Part 2
Helmut Perl's The Case of Mozart: Testimony about a Misunderstood
Genius
19 October 2006
A fresh look at Mozart--Part 1
Helmut Perl's The Case of Mozart: Testimony about a Misunderstood
Genius
7 June 2006
Dixie Chicks stand their ground
Dixie Chicks: Taking the Long Way
9 May 2006
Mozart turns two hundred and fifty
Part 5: The Classical period: Mozart and Haydn
8 May 2006
Mozart turns two hundred and fifty
Part 4: Mozart in Vienna
6 May 2006
Mozart turns two hundred and fifty
Part 3: The Italian and German classical styles
5 May 2006
Mozart turns two hundred and fifty
Part 2: Paris and London
4 May 2006
Mozart turns two hundred and fifty
Part 1: The German Enlightenment and Amadeus
23 March 2006
A
comment on the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival--Part
Two
22 March 2006
A
comment on the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival--Part
One
30 September 2005
Rapper Kanye West on the cover of Time: Will
rap music shed its "gangster" disguise?
9 September 2005
"The
Massacre" by 50 Cent sells 4 million copies: Why does social
backwardness achieve such success?--Part Two
8 September 2005
"The
Massacre" by 50 Cent sells 4 million copies: Why does social
backwardness achieve such success?--Part One
21 April 2005
Eminem's new release, Encore: delusions, megalomania
and social confusion
19 January 2005
Fredric Rzewski's The People United Will Never
Be Defeated
At Venice's Teatro Fondamenta Nuove
10 August 2004
"There's something magical about music"
Singer-songwriter Marshall Crenshaw
speaks with the World Socialist Web Site
1 July 2004
Outkast:
a case study in social misleading
11 May 2004
The
rediscovered music of Erwin Schulhoff
24 April 2004
Britain:
Bob Copper, foremost traditional singer dies
7 February 2004
An appreciation of Warren Zevon
Grammys give belated recognition to an enigmatic pop musician
5 December 2003
British
poet rejects Order of the British Empire award
4 December 2003
A reply to "Sylvia Plath is hardly present: a
review of Sylvia, directed by Christine Jeffs"
2 October 2003
Obituary
Johnny Cash: a timeless voice of country music
2 September 2003
A human sound of the world
The Hour of Two Lights, an album by Terry Hall and Mushtaq
1 August 2003
Music from the Motion Picture: The Pianist--a review
15 July 2003
The
work of British composer Mark Anthony Turnage
18 June 2003
Thirty years down the road
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Manchester, England
13 June 2003
Beyond the roots of American popular music
Examining the legacy of Alan Lomax
23 April 2003
Impassive
resistance: Protest songs for today
26 March 2003
Singer
Iris DeMent refuses to perform in protest against Iraq war
10 February 2003
White
House cancels poetry symposium in response to protest
13 January 2003
Obituary:
Joe Strummer of The Clash, dead at 50
16 October 2002
A serious attempt to encourage Sri Lankan opera
Sonduru Varnadasi (The Alluring Courtesan), directed by
Premasiri Khemadasa, libretto by Lucien Bulathsinghala
7 August 2002
US
country singer Steve Earle subjected to witch-hunt
4 June 2002
Tilt by Scott Walker: A
remarkable album by a serious musician
7 March 2002
Charlie Musselwhite—Music true to real life
A review of bluesman's new CD: "One Night In America"
14 February 2002
Dave
Van Ronk, folk and blues artist, dead at 65
8 February 2002
"Strange
Fruit": the story of a song
28 December 2001
One
critic's picks for best jazz and blues recordings of 2001
9 August 2001
Joe
Henderson: Another jazz great dies
29 June 2001
The
passing of a blues legend:
John Lee Hooker
5 May 2001
Jazz
drummer Billy Higgins dies
17 February 2001
In
praise of classical guitarists Alexandre Lagoya and Ida Presti
11 January 2001
Kirsty
MacColl: a life in song
29 December 2000
One
critic's picks for top jazz and blues albums of 2000
1 December 2000
William Blake: A radical visionary
William Blake: Tate Gallery, London, 9 November - 11 February
2001
1 November 2000
Music review
McCoy Tyner with Stanley Clarke and Al Foster --piano
trio in the spirit of Coltrane
1 September 2000
Listening
to Brian Wilson
31 August 2000
Judith
Wright (1915-2000)--Australian poet dies
22 June 2000
Extraordinary
solo cello performance of Bach's Suites in Australia
15 June 2000
New
York police, Mayor Giuliani attack Bruce Springsteen for criticizing
Diallo shooting
10 June 2000
Tito Puente dead at 77
The soul of Latin music dies
11 April 2000
Ian
Dury (1942-2000):
a poet of the spoken word
7 April 2000
Clarifying a confused debate
The legacy of Dmitri Shostakovich
30 March 2000
The Melody At Night, With You
by Keith Jarrett (ECM 1675)
Piano variations from the American songbook
24 January 2000
Curtis Mayfield dies:
A modest man of great musical talent and sensitivity
31 December 1999
Country
music singer Hank Snow dead at 85
16 December 1999
"The heart and soul of country music is the experiences
of ordinary people"
An interview with Dale Watson
20 November 1999
Book Review:
Auden's poetry and his last years
Later Auden by Edward Mendelson
13 October 1999
Jazz
vibraphonist Milt Jackson dead at 76
1 September 1999
Why
we need Byron
10 August 1999
A
letter on the music of Joaquin Rodrigo
13 July 1999
Obituary:
Joaquin Rodrigo, famed Spanish composer dies
10 June 1999
Mel
Torme, an appreciation
4 May 1999
Tracks, a Sony Music 4-CD boxed set by Bruce Springsteen
Anthology charts Springsteen's musical journey
8 April 1999
A
reader asks about the poetry of Wilfred Owen
19 March 1999
World
Poetry and the English language
12 March 1999
Iris
DeMent song provokes intense debate
A remarkable anthology of world poetry
5 March 1999
The singer and the song explored
The Voice of the People: A 20 CD collection of folk song
by Topic Records
25 February 1999
Struttin' with Some Barbecue: Louis Armstrong and
the growth of jazz
The music of everyday events
2 December 1998
The
war poet Wilfred Owen 80 years on
5 November 1998
Ted
Hughes (1930-1998):
The passing of a 20th century poet
28 May 1998
Poetry Review: Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
- Memories of Sylvia Plath
22 May 1998
Book review: What bebop
meant to jazz history
21 May 1998
An
appreciation of Frank Sinatra
7 May 1998
David
Walsh interviews folk singer
Dave Van Ronk
18 April 1998
Iris DeMent:
Songwriter steeped in the heritage of American country and traditional
music
"The poor are treated like enemies"
An interview with Iris DeMent
16 December 1996
The
country boogie-woogie of Sleepy LaBeef
Music should not be a selfish thing
An interview with Sleepy LaBeef |
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