Music Reviews & Criticism

Blackstar Theory takes a close look at David Bowies ambitious last works: his surprise comeback project The Next Day (2013), the off-Broadway music...

Two and a half decades on, Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1993-94) is the rare album to have lost none of its original loyalty, affection, a...

Computer World was Kraftwerks most concise and focused conceptual statement, their most influential record and crowning achievement. Computer World...

Radiohead are not like other bands. For over three decades they have charted a singular course. As their music has become more beautiful, more stra...

The mid- 70s were a time of reckoning. It was also an era of paradoxes, of record making and record breaking, of sold-out shows, and, in the minds ...

Defined by its distinct performance style, stage practices, and regional and dialect based identities, Cantonese opera originated as a traditional ...

One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, timed ...

Gospel music evolved in often surprising directions during the post-Civil Rights era. Claudrena N. Harold's in-depth look at late-century gospel fo...

Over half a century since they exploded inevitably onto New York's underground music and art scenes, the legacy and mythology of The Velvet Undergr...

No-one, least of all Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi themselves, expected the six-time former World Snooker champion and a British-Iranian underground...

Over 400,000 people moved their families in search of a better life in the American West during the Westward Expansion. The pioneers made room f...

This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinéad Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Ra...

Categorizing Sound addresses the relationship between categories of music and categories of people, particularly how certain ways of organizing sou...

In the early 1800s, Rossinis operas permeated Italian culture, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and private. But after R...

Malcolm Forsyth (19362011) was a musical legend: a much-loved composer, performer, teacher, and mentor. Reflections on Malcolm Forsyth presents a c...

The discourse of Victorian liberalism has long been explored by scholars of literature, with reference to politics, ethics and aesthetics. Yet litt...

In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsoun...

In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsoun...

This definitive guide includes a unique chapter-by-chapter playlist for the reader. Jazz: A Beginners Guide is a lively and highly accessible int...

Film has shaped modern society in part by changing its cultures of memory. Film, Music, Memory reveals that this change has rested in no small meas...

Film has shaped modern society in part by changing its cultures of memory. Film, Music, Memory reveals that this change has rested in no small meas...

The meaning of Bob Dylans songs has long been debated by fans, critics and academics. When, in 2016, Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literatur...

From the ashes of Nirvana, Dave Grohl rose as a one-man band with a self-titled album: Foo Fighters. Now, almost 30 years on, and having recruited ...

This signature limited edition numbered and autographed on the first page by Merri Cyr! Available only as a pre-publication order for a limited tim...