Rock 'n' Roll

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  • Hall of shame

    Dubious voting practices reported from within the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
    March 14, 2007

  • The original riot grrrl

    Ellen Willis, the New Yorker's first pop critic and a pro-sex feminist, was a literary Janis Joplin to generations of women. In tribute, we present her 1976 essay on the singer.
    November 13, 2006

  • The riot quiets

    The breakup of Sleater-Kinney signifies the end of an era when women made a loud and unapologetic noise -- onstage and in society.
    By Carlene Bauer July 17, 2006

  • Meet the Beatles (again)

    At the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's death, a handful of writers attempt to tell us something we don't already know about the Fab Four.
    By David Amsden November 8, 2005

  • Real-life school of rock needs you

    Donate instruments, CDs or money to a summer camp so girls can rock out.
    By Hillary Frey November 3, 2005

  • Rock 'n' roll rebellion, redux

    At a Green Day concert, shouting and smiling next to my 13-year-old son, I watched the generation gap disappear.
    By Joyce Millman October 26, 2005

  • He is trying to break our hearts

    With a new album out and an intriguing new biography spinning the tale of his tormented career, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy looks like the leading American rocker of his generation. Which may tell you something about the state of American rock.
    By Eric Boehlert June 29, 2004

  • Music 2003: Rock is dead (once more with feeling)

    Forget those boring white boys with guitars. Thanks to Missy, OutKast and Timbaland, for the first time since the Beatles, the most vital forms of pop are found at the top of the charts.
    By Thomas Bartlett January 2, 2004

  • Songs of the flesh

    As Tori Amos' new greatest-hits collection demonstrates, the ultimate tortured '90s alt-girl has always used her solipsistic body-obsessions as a way to find the world.
    By Laura Sinagra December 22, 2003

  • The greatest week in rock history

    Thirty-four years ago this week, the Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, Temptations, Santana, Crosby Stills and Nash, and Creedence Clearwater all shared top billing on the Billboard album chart. There's never been another lineup quite like it -- and there will never be again.
    By Eric Boehlert December 19, 2003

  • Burning down the house

    A definitive new box set will proclaim the eclectic greatness of Talking Heads when the ugliness between David Byrne and Tina Weymouth has long been forgotten.
    By David Bowman December 3, 2003

  • Not quite the end of the world as we know it

    R.E.M.'s new career retrospective reminds you of the extraordinary cultural moment the band forged in the '80s -- and leaves you hungry for more.
    By Shannon Zimmerman November 25, 2003

  • Don't try to take him to a disco

    In a new greatest-hits time capsule, Michigan's monumentally unhip Bob Seger stays true to his vision of a now-extinct America -- and makes you nostalgic for nostalgia.
    By Andrew Beaujon November 11, 2003

  • He can play honky-tonk just like anything

    Dire Straits founder David Knopfler talks about his DIY solo career, Bush and Clear Channel's deals with the devil and why he hates "Sultans of Swing."
    By Bob Calhoun November 10, 2003

  • His body (of work) is a wonderland

    Sure, critics make fun of him. But sensitive-guy singer-songwriter John Mayer has put the soul back in folk and the sex back in vanilla.
    By Keith Harris October 28, 2003

  • Death and glory

    Punk legend Joe Strummer bows out with "Streetcore," a hit-and-miss farewell studded with a handful of gems.
    By Shannon Zimmerman October 21, 2003

  • The soccer mom's sex symbol

    It's encouraging that Sting seems to have chugged a Red Bull-Viagra smoothie on some tracks of his new "Sacred Love" LP, but his didactic, smugly penitent music still seems designed to be played by an adulterer returning to Westchester in his Jag.
    By Laura Sinagra October 16, 2003

  • All this useless beauty

    Thanks to the pristine, prettified and precious new album "North," a longtime Elvis Costello die-hard finally dies. Hard.
    By Shannon Zimmerman October 11, 2003

  • Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands

    English singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore, at just 23, is the genuine heiress to the Bob Dylan-Leonard Cohen-Tom Waits legacy of dark, brilliant indie folk-rock.
    By David Bowman September 29, 2003

  • The big Bangs

    A former Creem magazine colleague of Lester Bangs remembers -- and members of the Doors, the MC5, Blondie and the Mekons respond to -- the late, great rock critic's bracing vitriol.
    By Roberta Cruger September 3, 2003

  • Graceful exit for an excitable boy

    Funny, smart and touching, Warren Zevon's "The Wind" -- his latest album and presumably his last -- is also one of his finest.
    By Shannon Zimmerman August 26, 2003

  • Never mind the bell-bottoms

    Was Led Zeppelin really a proto-punk outfit in hippie garb? With the million-selling live box set "How the West Was Won," Jimmy Page wants you to think so.
    By Shannon Zimmerman July 31, 2003

  • Dylan in darkest America

    In "Masked and Anonymous," this summer's strange and brilliant must-see film, an aging troubadour is the last gleam of hope in a corrupt and dictatorial nation.
    By Stephanie Zacharek July 24, 2003

  • An excerpt from "Y: The Last Man"

    What's worse than death, destruction and the fall of civilization as we know it? Try the end of rock 'n' roll.
    By Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, Jose Marzan, Jr. July 21, 2003

  • Ain't that America?

    Denounced as un-American after he blasted Bush on his 21st album, John Mellencamp talks about the rise of Fox News, pay-for-play, what's wrong with the Rolling Stones and why most Republicans aren't rich enough to be Republicans.
    By Eric Boehlert June 30, 2003
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