By: Joshua Glenn

How to find good hip-hop songs for your kids to listen to.

By: Brian Berger

His speed, touch, range and daring were unrivaled.

By: Adam McGovern

He skims the event-horizon of listenable music and bearable emotion.

By: Adam McGovern

He colonized and abandoned serial worlds of sound and sexuality.

By: HILOBROW

What is this winter’s best music video?

By: Brian Berger

A composer in search of ambivalence and revelation.

By: Greg Rowland

He pushed the Hammond’s delicacy and dirt the furthest.

By: Tor Aarestad

A Pat-Benatar-loving Linda Blair gone to seed?

By: Franklin Bruno

His sound was brawny, guttural, and tremendously expressive.

By: Peggy Nelson

Toast is not on the menu.

By: Brian Berger

Superior technique and intellect plus searing emotionalism.

By: Tor Aarestad

He takes onto himself all of our evil urges and failings.

By: Mark Kingwell

Without him there would be no Nashville scene.

By: Mimi Lipson

The sophist­ication of Jones’s voice has never dimin­ished its authen­ticity.

By: Matthew Battles

The African legacy of the father of country music.