Rock

The country legend finds freedom in her first venture into rock. Plus, Jill Lepore, Jelani Cobb, and Evan Osnos on how American democracy got so precarious.

No one could have imagined in 1984 that the concert documentary represented not only the culmination but the conclusion of Talking Heads as a performing band.

The sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell, of the rock band Larkin Poe, hit up a guitar store before a gig at Webster Hall.

The long-awaited documentary about the Velvet Underground is very good, but we had reason to expect more.

Erickson, of the 13th Floor Elevators, occupied strange air as a guitarist and lyricist, a kind of wild innocence that eschewed predictability and clichés.

The allegations of Adams’s abusive behavior are a reminder that the music industry must reckon not only with the alpha abusers but also with the odious web of enablers that surrounds them.

Lucy Dacus, the man who invented the power chord, and the wise jazz of Fred Hersch.

I’m not sure that anyone knew how to metabolize the album’s precise disquiet until exactly this moment—making the timing of its reissue feel fated.

Accounts of the peacefulness and generosity of the festivalgoers are all true—but they have tended to miss the point.