Get The Magazine
The best in culture from a cultural icon. Subscribe now for more from the authority on music, entertainment, politics and pop culture.
Subscribe Now
The guitarist-actor-producer also discusses his lifelong friendship with Bruce Springsteen, how he crafted his ‘Sopranos’ character, and the possibility of a 2020 E Street Band tour
Older music has been losing market share on audio streaming services in the U.S. Is Oasis’ 1995 hit proof that the trend could reverse itself?
Mötley Crüe are the first band to tour again after signing a legal document saying they wouldn’t, but they’re hardly the first band to hit the road after a so-called final tour
In 2010, the future president attended a Roger Waters performance of Pink Floyd’s masterpiece but didn’t stick around long enough to see the wall fall. Could he have learned something if he’d stayed?
Even for the biggest stars, getting music onto streaming services can still be a complicated endeavor. To release ‘Jesus Is Born,’ West turned to Vydia
The unlikely feature was a decidedly un-emo risk that paid off for band’s ambitious ‘Black Parade’
Between a mysterious 1975 song set and a bounty of new publications, the late trailblazer continues to fascinate new generations of scholars and superfans
How American music legends made millions off the work of a Zulu tribesman who died a pauper.
The band didn’t write “Revolution Rock,” Joe Strummer started “Lost in the Supermarket” on the back of a guitar-string package, and Paul Simonon smashed his bass a day…
In a decade defined by loss, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen and others made transcendent art in their last days.
