Free Speech and Free Jazz
A documentary captures the life of civil libertarian and music critic Nat Hentoff.
Music
This Week's Culture War: Arguing About a Creedence Clearwater Revival Song
When the band plays "Fortunate Son," they point the cannon at...
Killer or Artist? Why Rap is on Trial.
Prosecutors' use of rap videos and lyrics as evidence is chilling artistic speech.
Run the Jewels Talks About Gun Rights, Government Surveillance, and the Political Power of Big Beats
Reason has a conversation with "top tag team for two summers."
Twenty-Five Years Ago Today, the Berlin Wall Came Down
The man who gave the order to let the crowd through.
Pianist Thinks He Can Use 'Right to Be Forgotten' Law to Remove His Bad Reviews, Accidentally Outs Himself as a Thin-Skinned Censor Instead
Dejan Lazic discovers the Streisand Effect.
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.
