Rock legend David Lowery draws on his decades in the music industry to explain how government-imposed licensing fees and price controls helped streaming platforms flourish while eroding artist rights and income.
Perhaps boutique businesses with hip tastes can be as bad for bands as the biggest corporation.
Three and a half lessons about Neil Young, Joe Rogan, Spotify, and our age of cultural plenitude
The members of Zeus fought for the freedom to be frikis. Then they joined the Castro government's official Agency of Rock.
The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
How Axl Rose reflected a country desperate but unwilling to move on from a worn-out postwar consensus on national identity, gender roles, and global hegemony.
How can a place that we're intimately familiar with—more than half of America lives in the suburbs—be so unknowable?
"I would rather be remembered for writing something that was...offensive, than to be forgotten for writing something bloodless."
Iggy Pop's new book documents the life of a great individualist who, even more than Sinatra, did things his way.
In his new manifesto The Three Dimensions of Freedom, the veteran punk rocker calls out libertarians for focusing solely on economic freedom. Is his case worth buying?
Friday A/V Club: Back in the '80s, Bernie Sanders had a public-access TV show. The archives are now online.
The British musician brings a libertarian sensibility to his new folk-punk album.
When the punk rock thought-police targeted the New York City band Agnostic Front.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in a case about "offensive" speech & the First Amendment.
Friday A/V Club: One of the most sublime rock documentaries ever made
Sorry kids, life "doesn't get better" after high school, says best-selling novelist. You just get better at navigating it.
St. Mark's is Dead author Ada Calhoun talks about the capital of the counterculture.
Another step in normalizing relations between the two countries.
"Why I think that libertarianism holds the last, best hope for an America that isn't constantly talking about...politics."
But other punks such as Pere Ubu's David Thomas would - horrors! - "totally vote libertarian"
Manitoba's, one of the last punk rock dive bars in New York's East Village, fights for its life.
The Nirvana bassist on voting, farming, anarchism, heroin, and Kurt Cobain.
Says prisons are the "face of the country"
Three months ahead of scheduled release, which counts as mercy for Russia
Husband lost contact with her after she began hunger strike
Cops uncool? Astonishing.
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