The New York Times

cover stories

Olivia Rodrigo, Pop’s Brightest New Hope, Just May Be a Rock Star

The Sheryl Crow You Never Knew

How Honest Can Demi Lovato Be?

Dua Lipa’s Unplanned, Uncertain, Unprecedented Album Launch

How Robyn, Pop’s Glittery Rebel, Danced Her Way Back From Darkness

Kelly Clarkson Is Nobody’s Puppet

Katy Perry Woke Up. She Wants to Tell You All About It.

Gwen Stefani Climbs Back From the Abyss

features

John Tesh Keeps Bouncing Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba Back

Kim Deal Is Ready to Go Solo. It Just Took Four Decades.

Holidays a Drag? Every Year, Thanks to Jinkx and Dela.

104 Shows. $260 Million. After 10 Years, Billy Joel Closes a Chapter.

How Hayley Williams Saved Herself (And, btw, Paramore)

Back in Black and White: It’s the Hives

Best Coast Almost Had No Future. Now Everything Has Changed.

Karen O and Danger Mouse Made an Album. It Only Took 11 Years.

Twenty One Pilots Want to Stay Strange

Sir Paul on Fans, the Beatles and Himself

An Indie-Rock Star at 18? Snail Mail Is Figuring It Out.

Rivers Cuomo of Weezer Taps his Inner Beach Boy

Billy Joel Said He’d Retired From Pop. Here’s What Brought Him Back.

reviews, criticism & newsletters

Madonna’s Latest Experiment: Looking Back

Surprise! Coachella Finds a New Identity

Miley Cyrus’s World of Excess

Kesha Nods to the Past and Roars Into the Future

Madonna & Hillary: ‘Witch’ & ‘nasty woman’ as Sisters in Arms

Jennifer Weiner Goes behind the Music

For Taylor Swift, Is Ego Stronger Than Pride?

Here’s the Lady. Where’s the Gaga?

What Is Beyoncé's Definitive album?

10 Standout R.E.M. Deep Cuts

11 Robyn Bangers for the Pop STar’s Return

Why Can’t We Look Away From the Super Bowl?

When pandemic shutdowns began in early 2020, I played off Travel’s “52 Places” feature for a Google doc that could be shared with our readers.

52 Places (Covid Edition)

obituaries

Chris Cornell

Taylor Hawkins

Allee Willis

All New York Times

Fool the World

An oral history of the band Pixies, co-written with Josh Frank.

The book, which featured 61 voices, was published by St. Martin’s Press in the U.S. and Virgin Books in the U.K.

Rolling Stone

features

Charli XCX: Up All Night With 2014’s Breakout Star

Neon Trees’ Tyler Glenn: Gay, Mormon and Finally Out

Inside Madonna’s Star-Packed ‘Rebel Heart’

How Liz Phair Took the Rolling Stones to ‘Guyville’

reviews

Madonna, ‘Hard Candy’

Lana Del Rey, ‘Ultraviolence’

Coldplay, ‘Ghost Stories’

Lady Gaga, ‘Artpop’

Weezer, ‘Everything Will Be Alright in the End’

Madonna, ‘Rebel Heart’’

All Rolling Stone

Spin

cover stories & features

reviews

Britney Spears, 'In the Zone’

Lady Gaga, ‘Born This Way’

Built to Spill, ‘You in Reverse’

Rihanna, ‘Unapologetic’

Pink, ‘The Truth About Love’

Madonna, ‘MDNA’

Beyoncé Live in Atlantic City

Kelly Clarkson Live at Radio City

interviews

Ke$ha on Playing With Strokes, Loving Cults, and Beard Porn

Breaking Out: Yuck

Next Big Things 2011: MNDR

Faster, Pussy Kat, Kill! Kill!

blogs

The 30 Best Britney Spears Songs

Guns N’ Roses’ ‘Chinese Democracy’ Tour By the Numbers

Kim Gordon and Thurston moore Announce Split

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