By: Adam McGovern

Not just a magic spirit but also his own changeling.

By: Matthew De Abaitua

The exegesis has just begin.

By: Adam McGovern

A consciously anonymous persona yet a conspicuously anomalous presence.

By: Peggy Nelson

Vocal Track Only

By: Devin McKinney

If he can make a comeback, maybe the human race can too.

By: HILOBROW

“My mom’s ambivalent refrain kept coming back to me”

By: Adam McGovern

Immortal, like a surgical version of H. Rider Haggard’s SHE.

By: David Smay

The impresario of man calligraphy and glamorous junkies in wimples.

By: Mimi Lipson

Her young voice throbbed with friction and experience.

By: Douglas Wolk

One of his production jobs was hilariously disrespectful.

By: Ingrid Schorr

“I am the king of the divan!”

By: Douglas Wolk

For somebody who’s been batting out the hits for thirty years now, ANNIE LENNOX (born 1954) sure doesn’t make a big deal about it: she’s a consistent, reliable entertainer who sails wherever the winds of […]

By: Katie Hennessey

Contrary to rumor, MAMA CASS ELLIOT (1941-74) did not choke to death on a sandwich. Officially, she died from “heart failure due to fatty myocardial degeneration due to obesity.” Mama Cass wasn’t merely obese, though: […]

By: Erik Davis

Now that the radical punch of punk seems no more potent than a daisy in a National Guardsman’s rifle, the artsy-fartsy fundament of its posture has become as evident — and as significant — as […]

By: Lynn Peril

The early death of BUDDY HOLLY (1936-59) transformed him into an icon of the Boomers’ Happy Days-esque vision of American life in the 1950s, all poodle skirts and sock hops at the malt shop, or […]