Music
A Copyright Ruling in California Could Spell Trouble for Oldies Radio
And for bars and restaurants that play old music, too.
Juggalos Still a 'Hybrid Gang' after Insane Clown Posse Loses Lawsuit Against FBI
"While it is easy to fear what one does not understand, discrimination and bigotry against any group of people is just plain wrong and un-American."
Krist Novoselic's Alternative Politics
The Nirvana bassist on voting, farming, anarchism, heroin, and Kurt Cobain.
Disco Doesn't Suck. Here's Why.
Once largely derided as shallow, faddish, consumerist music, disco has been reappraised as the stifled sounds of cultural liberation. Of course, it could always be both.
Rumors of Rock'n'Roll Satanism
Jesse Walker talks about rock-music conspiracy theories on KUER.
'That Kind of Luxe Just Ain't for Us'
The progressive lineage of Macklemore's and Lorde's attacks on the pleasures of the poor
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is Neil Patrick Harris' One-Man Show
The onstage band kicks, and the songs are fierce.
'You Can't Have Freedom for Free': On Rush, Ayn Rand, and Not Compromising
"I don't want to 'grow up,' if growing up means abandoning the principle that individuals matter," writes Matt Kibbe in Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto.
Friday A/V Club: Footage from the Communist Mirror-Universe
A weird pop relic from the end of the Soviet era