By: Adam McGovern

Midcentury Postmodern

By: David Smay

He got an early education in rock’n’roll cynicism.

By: Tor Aarestad

Both a singular artist and a mensch.

By: Anthony Miller

His songs number in the thousands.

By: Adam McGovern

Not just a magic spirit but also his own changeling.

By: Matthew De Abaitua

The exegesis has just begin.

By: Katie Hennessey

For a guy with no sense of humor, he sure is funny.

By: Adam McGovern

Lover of noise, angel of the unaccepted.

By: William Nericcio

His presence is his lasting act of resistance.

By: Katie Hennessey

An underrated, under-appreciated, undercover overachiever.

By: Adam McGovern

A consciously anonymous persona yet a conspicuously anomalous presence.

By: Peggy Nelson

Vocal Track Only

By: David Abrams

David Abrams on Blondie’s “Rapture” (1980)

By: Jerrold Freitag

He doesn’t do anything just because he can.

By: Franklin Bruno

Derrida said of this pop star: “He knows his Wittgenstein.”