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Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit performs during day three of the Splendour in the Grass music festival on August 1st, 2010, in Woodford, Australia.(Photo: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)Friend, you might not be able to relate, but there…

“What it all comes down to / Is that everything’s gonna be fine, fine, fine. . . . ”’Cause I’ve got one hand in my pocket and the other one is stuck in a can of Pringles.’Cause I’ve got one hand in my pocket and the other one is—oh, my!…

Campbell McGrath joins Kevin Young to discuss “Realism,” by Czeslaw Milosz, and his own poem “The Human Heart.” McGrath has published several poetry collections and received fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim…

Though David Crosby’s recording career began in the early nineteen-sixties, as a founding member of the folk-rock band the Byrds, the singer and guitarist has been enjoying a curious renaissance in recent years. “Remember My Name,” a new…

Twenty-eight years after the first alleged instance of R. Kelly engaging in sexual contact with an underage girl, two federal indictments unsealed on Friday shed new light on how the musician allegedly got away with preying on minors…

A lot of kids grow up in New Orleans not knowing much about jazz. That was the case with me and my sisters. Never mind that the clarinettist Pete Fountain was always on television back then, or that our neighborhood was only a ten-minute…

Danny Boyle’s comedic fantasy “Yesterday,” from a script by Richard Curtis, is a high-concept film in the best possible way: its idea has such symbolic power that it renders the details of the action and the direction not quite…

Thom Yorke, the singer of the British rock band Radiohead, has been thrashing against a bleak and bloodless future for more than two decades. He has a reputation for seriousness, and he has committed a good portion of his musical career…

The notion that music education is an expendable frill has yet to die, even as the research showing a link between musical training and academic achievement keeps getting stronger.(Photo: Dayne Topkin/Unsplash)The headlines just keep…