Sam Huber Circles ’Neath Your Eyes The men and women in Lucinda Williams’s songs struggle to turn their injuries into something they can live with. July 11, 2024
Ben Ratliff Not Not Jazz When Miles Davis went electric in the late 1960s, he overhauled his thinking about songs, genres, and what it meant to lead a band. January 13, 2024
Martin Filler The Architect and the Rock Star Two new books of personal photographs, one by Phyllis Lambert, the other by Patti Smith, have thematic congruities but markedly different tones. April 15, 2023
Greil Marcus A Ride on the Velvet Underground Revolving around Lou Reed and John Cale, Todd Haynes’s documentary on the avant-garde rock band is itself an art project in the spirit of Andy Warhol’s Factory. November 18, 2021
Wesley Stace Springsteen at Seventy Bruce does not wink at you. Though there is always humor, the show is not ironic. His smile is open. Bruce gives you the truth straight. The set seems entirely honest. That is its appeal. September 21, 2019