Before Trump, There Was Pappy
The Donald wasn't the first to parlay business and broadcast fame into a political career.
The Donald wasn't the first to parlay business and broadcast fame into a political career.
The connection between economic development and heavy metal music.
Alcohol agent said he saw "things on YouTube that might be against Mississippi code."
How Music Got Free author Stephen Witt on the creation of the MP3 and the death of the music industry
If millennials really do dig socialism, there's a museum of it just 90 miles south of Miami.
"When he f**k me good, I take his ass to Red Lobster," sings Queen Bey, and suddenly every day is Lobster Fest.
Spoiler: It didn't have a "wardrobe malfunction."
Reason's musical review of We Shall Overcome is the subject of today's conversation.
Radical and science-fictional Jefferson Airplane musician made the sixties the sixties--and kept growing.
New bill calls for performers to hand over personal information; cops could revoke venues' performance licenses.
The presidential contender overcomes tone-deafness and a lack of rhythm in Vermont's answer to "We Are the World."
Think of it as self-directed evolution in action.
The singer sold "Bowie Bonds," which securitized his future royalties.
His insistent, playful shape-shifting helped to create a freer, more individualized world.
Andrew WK, role model for fun, wants you to party in honor of the Motorhead frontman.
Congress is never at a loss for a reason to be threatened by free expression.
Bell v. Itawamba County School Board asks the court to decide whether public schools may discipline students for off-campus speech.
Public schools should not have the power to punish off-campus speech.
Controversial singer refuses to answer questions about lyrics and lawsuits, walks off set, shows power of new media.
A high school senior was suspended for recording a rap song.
Back in 1989, federal law enforcement took "Fuck tha Police" literally.
Members of the South Korean pop group "Oh My Girl" fall victim to U.S. sex-trafficking hysteria.
Decades after Straight Outta Compton, rappers are still fighting for free expression.
Voice of America's Willis Conover got the Soviet Bloc jazzed up.
Federal judge uses his Drake and Eminem fandom to dispute copyright infringement claim.
Swift is accused of ripping-off the lyrics to her hit song "Shake It Off," but lawyer Mike Godwin says the case is "almost certainly meritless."
California prosecutors use rap lyrics during criminal proceedings against aspiring rappers (and not much else).
No one should die at a music event, government officials say while mulling options that would make that more likely.
Aspiring rap artists have tried to emulate the success of N.W.A. but end up having their lyrics used against them in court.
Law & Order: Twitter Unit
Aspiring rappers trying to emulate the success of N.W.A. end up having their rap lyrics used against them in criminal proceedings.
A new book sheds light on the singer-songwriter's evangelical years.
The most poker-faced joke in the history of pop music...maybe
"If you're telling me Amazon is bad for culture, like seriously, fuck you," says memoirist of '90s alt-music scene.
Rappers are still in a First Amendment fight with law enforcement over their music.
The politics of everything.
Sometimes famous people admit they admire Ayn Rand. And then sometimes they recant. Why?
Willis Conover and that Cold War jazz