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“When I first saw Patti Smith, I didn’t listen to another Grateful Dead record for five years”: Dean Wareham interviews Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan

Talking the Grateful Dead, Cure and Big Star with Yo La Tengo's frontman on the release of a "Fakebook" sequel

Dean Wareham Friday, Sep 4, 2015 11:00 PM UTC 0
Entertainment Music, Yo La Tengo, Dean Wareham

The punk gospel of Algiers: “It boils down to some sort of liberation music, some sort of emancipation”

Salon talks to members of the soulful, politically charged band about their groundbreaking debut

Sean Cannon Friday, Sep 4, 2015 10:59 PM UTC 0
Entertainment Algiers, Music, Punk, gospel

Watch a half century of Hollywood’s obsession with whitewashing Africa

Taylor Swift's "Wildest Dreams" is just the most recent offender VIDEO

Janet Upadhye Thursday, Sep 3, 2015 7:03 PM UTC 0
Life original video, Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift’s colonial nostalgia: Hollywood’s obsession with taming Africa’s wild landscape lives on

Thanks, Ms. Swift, for again proving that African stereotypes are safe atop the pinnacle of American pop culture VIDEO

Matt Carotenuto Wednesday, Sep 2, 2015 3:00 PM UTC 0
Entertainment Taylor Swift, wildest dreams

The King of the Punks looks at 60: John Lydon on his Sex Pistols past, his new album and why he’s still “a work in progress”

Salon talks to the Public Image Limited frontman about his book and their new album "What the World Needs Now"

Marc Spitz Tuesday, Sep 1, 2015 10:59 PM UTC 0
Entertainment John Lydon, Johnny Rotten

Miley Cyrus has no interest in Taylor Swift’s girl gang: “I’m not trying to be in the squad.”

Cyrus discussed her new album "Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz" in a follow-up piece with the Times

Anna Silman Tuesday, Sep 1, 2015 2:24 PM UTC 0
Entertainment Miley Cyrus

Don’t call Beach House’s sound “dreamy”: “It’s gotten to be like saying somebody’s nice”

Victoria Legrand talks to Salon about their new album "Depression Cherry"

Mack Hayden Monday, Aug 31, 2015 10:58 PM UTC 0
Entertainment Beach House, Music

Justin Bieber’s VMA comeback: With a bravo performance (and a few tears), pop’s wild child is ready for his next act

Are you ready to beliebe once more? VIDEO

Anna Silman Monday, Aug 31, 2015 7:20 PM UTC 0
All Salon Justin Bieber, Music, vmas

The most awkward moments of the 2015 VMAs

From Rebel Wilson's police brutality gag to Miley's nip slip VIDEO

Anna Silman Monday, Aug 31, 2015 3:36 PM UTC 0
Entertainment Video, vmas, vmas 2015, Miley Cyrus

“Stale white bitches tried to take us down”: Luther Campbell on 2 Live Crew, race, hip-hop and the conservative, Southern ’80s

"The day some white teenager got caught with a 2 Live Crew album, that’s what started the whole sh*tstorm"

Luther Campbell Saturday, Aug 29, 2015 7:30 PM UTC 0
Entertainment Entertainment, rap, hip-hop

Frustrated musicians: The New York Times doesn’t want to hear your “continued complaints” about its “Creative Apocalypse” numbers

Criticize the Times' use of statistics, get a very chilly response

David Lowery Friday, Aug 28, 2015 8:10 PM UTC 0
Media New York Times, Creative class

30 people Taylor Swift hasn’t performed with (yet)

There are some, believe it or not [UPDATED]

Anna Silman Thursday, Aug 27, 2015 7:44 PM UTC 0
Entertainment Taylor Swift, 1989, Music

Are these really the best songs of the ’80s?: Picking apart Pitchfork’s fascinating, frustrating list

Hip hop and soul are well represented, but alt-country and U.S. alternative, not so much

Scott Timberg Thursday, Aug 27, 2015 6:53 PM UTC 0
Entertainment R.E.M., hip hop, indie-rock, Music

Lessons from the Britpop wars: Brush off the pre-social media era dust and the relics of 1995 feel almost fresh again

20 years ago, Oasis and Blur were the center of an epic battle for top of the charts and fan allegiance

Annie Zaleski Wednesday, Aug 26, 2015 10:58 PM UTC 0
Entertainment oasis, Blur, Britpop, the nineties

The poster girl for period sex: “I think it’s unfortunate that women often think their vagina’s kind of disgusting”

Salon talks to singer/songwriter Rachel Lark about her sex-positive anthems

Rachel Kramer Bussel Wednesday, Aug 26, 2015 3:02 PM UTC 0
Entertainment Sex, Rachel Lark, menstruation

Beyoncé’s deafening silence: Why #BlackLivesMatter needs her voice now more than ever — in Vogue and beyond

Her recent refusal to give interviews, including for the Vogue September issue, leaves a void few others can fill

Shannon M. Houston Monday, Aug 24, 2015 10:58 PM UTC 0
Entertainment Beyonce, #blacklivesmatter, Vogue

R.E.M.’s “Fables of the Reconstruction” hit a major milestone this summer, quietly: A look back at the oddball album that never quite found its place in time

Why do we make a huge deal out of some anniversaries and not others?

Annie Zaleski Friday, Aug 21, 2015 11:00 PM UTC 0
Entertainment R.E.M., indie-rock, Music

Morrissey gives the most Morrissey interview possible to Larry King: “Obama—is he white inside? It’s a very logical question”

The outspoken Smiths founder talked Ferguson, Trump and cancer in a long-awaited in-depth in-person interview

Annie Zaleski Wednesday, Aug 19, 2015 10:59 PM UTC 0
Entertainment Morrissey, larry king live

K-pop: Holding up a fast, fizzy funhouse mirror to American cultural imperialism

If all you know about Korean pop music is "Gagnam Style," you've been missing out

Paula Young Lee Tuesday, Aug 18, 2015 10:59 PM UTC 0
Entertainment k-pop, Music, big bang, 2NE1, BtoB

The 15 most utterly reviled bands of the last 30 years

Perhaps the only time you'll see Limp Bizkit, Lana Del Rey and Insane Clown Posse on the same list VIDEO

Prachi Gupta Tuesday, Aug 18, 2015 7:00 AM UTC 0
Social lists, Music, Video, Bands

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