The Minneapolis newspaper, which closed last week after four decades, was a home and a launchpad for a generation of pop journalists. By Keith Harris When a young music journalist moved to New York in ...

It is ever more evident that the City Hater is part of Creative Loafing, which is a part of corporate America with the specific mission of enslaving even those who seek unpopular culture and ...

“I may be just a schmo to you,” says National Symphony Orchestra cellist Pavla Teie, “but, man, to monkeys I am Elvis.” Working on a universal field theory of music centered on the notion that all ...

Max Stwertka’s draft composition for “Julius,” a seven-movement piece he composed for his senior thesis project at Union College. Schenectady In the small hours after midnight, when the Emerson ...

After nine years on the job as a music writer for the American-Statesman, our friend and colleague Peter Blackstock has left the paper. Blackstock's friends and musical family have organized a proper ...

The verb "to write" refers to both literature and music. Admittedly, for music, the term "compose" is more often used, but it remains a type of writing. Especially since songs are short texts set to ...