How Many Songs Are Released As Recordings Every Day?
In 2019, Spotify claimed that 40,000 tracks were added each day to its platform. And by 2021, the number increased to 60,000. But last...
Kelly Reichardt On The Slow Death Of The Dreams Of Gen-X Artists
"Frustrated hopefuls like Lizzy once formed the backbone of America’s homespun cultural heritage, and without them, we’re headed toward a barren status quo of...
Some Black Operas Are Changing The Face Of Classical Music
One librettist says, ""Opera just lends itself so well to Black stories because of its epicness, ... because of its fantastical ability to show...
Sometimes, Musicians, You Shouldn’t Accept That State Department Money
The story of the band Blood, Sweat & Tears' 1970 tour of Eastern bloc countries is bizarre, and sobering, a new documentary shows. "This...
Sarah Polley’s Child Intensely Punked Her On April Fool’s Day
A letter posted on Twitter asked Polley to mail her Oscar back to California. "It said she could keep the award for one more...
Recognizing Elizabeth Siddal, Pre-Raphaelite Artist, Much More Than Just A Model
Siddal died young, and her husband Dante Gabriel Rossetti took up a lot of the air about the movement she was part of, both...
Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou, Ethiopian Nun And Pianist Who Combined Traditions, 99
"The styles explored by Sister Guèbrou ... were so singular in sound and structure that music scholars often puzzled over the main source of...
Hollywood’s Diversity Initiatives Took A Backslide In 2022
That's what a new UCLA report says. In Hollywood, "in nearly every job category, women and people of color remain underrepresented relative to the...
The Academy Really Screwed This One Up
"Joy, in her rage and her depression and her love, anchors the Best Picture sweep. The best goddamn film of the year, and all...
In An Age Where Disinformation Is So Dangerous, Sometimes We Can’t ‘Just Have This’...
It makes sense that we'd want these things. "In addition to providing the cozy fire of a feel-good story to warm your soul, these...
Why Can’t More Music Apps Be Like Apple’s Classical Music?
Bring on the metadata! "There feels like a genuine affection for the music in Apple Music Classical. ... But there are also just a...
Who And What Won Big At Britain’s Olivier Awards
The play Prima Facie and the adapted play My Neighbor Totoro were the biggest, but not the only, winners from London's West End. -...
Getting Los Angeles History Right For Perry Mason’s Season 2
The show had to learn "how different characters would have referred to the LAPD and FBI during in Depression-era L.A.; what words English- and...
Remembering Musician David Ornette Cherry
Cherry died in November after performing in London. Earlier, he said, "A lot of people think your success is how much money you make....
What Ukraine Is Losing To The War
Art, love, brownies, people, cafés. Life. - The New York Times
The Science of Music That Makes You Happy
In a recent survey, 71% of 2,000 participants reported that music was the strongest influence on their mood and almost 75% regularly listened to music...
Now That All Social Media Is Blurring Together, Something New Can Grow
That is, after the earth is salted. "When all platforms index the same content, they’ll be desperate to differentiate. ... The apps will be...
Chicago Gets A New Theatre-Focused Bookstore
Is it like New York's Drama Book Shop? A little, but "The Understudy has rotating displays atop wheeled shop tables, curated by Chicago artists....
The Issue Of Data Privacy, And TikTok, Goes Back To An English Victorian-Era Lawsuit
"The TikTok controversy can’t simply be chalked up to generational differences. ... It’s traceable to a watershed legal decision in 1849, when Prince Albert...
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Eclectic Composer And Electronic Pop Leader, Has Died At 71
Sakamoto's Yellow Magic Orchestra "perfected a witty robotic pop that ... influenced the sound of everything from Nintendo video game scores to the techno...
At Long Last, MTV’s Reality Art Show Is Paying Off, Sort Of
"This was a decent last stop before the end of an extremely niche and largely anticlimactic journey." - Hyperallergic
How Brands Like Nike And Pop-Tarts Suddenly Became Movie Stars
Blame Gen-X, sure, but there's more. "These movies have to do something smart: tap our innocent joy around old computer games and junk food,...
Publishers, And Many Writers, Fight A Civil War Against A Massive Library
Both sides have a point, but both sides are also, let's say, a bit touchy. Why? "Coming out against libraries making books more accessible...
Art Saves Lives, But Can It Save The Planet?
"The choice to vandalize Van Gogh’s Sunflowers suggests that beauty does have a role to play in the fight to save the planet. In the act...
How A Young Screenwriter Secured The Rights To A Revered Judy Blume Book
"I wrote Judy a letter telling her how impactful her work was for me and how passionate I was about Margaret in particular. ... The next...
