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For decades, Buffy Sainte-Marie was celebrated as Americas most famous Indigenous musician. Recent revelations force a reconsideration of her music.

A new biography examines the enigma of the musician.

The Nation Magazine

Writer, filmmaker and music journalist Jessica Hopper described her experience in the music industry at this year’s annual Weber Lecture. Hopper also highlighted the significant but underappreciated contributions female artists have made to music Wednesday at the Segal Visitors Center. Hopper, 47, has written for numerous music publications like Pitchfork and Rolling Stone. Citing journalists...

‘Only a Voice’ Review: An Accessible, but Incomplete Investigation into Modernity | Arts | The Harvard Crimson

Rolling Stone editor-in-chief reflect on misogyny and racism of the past and looks toward the future

There were at least three Lou Reeds. First and most enduring was the front man of the Velvet Underground, the greaser poet from Long Island who had a cabbie’s voice and a knack for writing songs about drugs and sex and salvation that sounded like the gutter side of 1960s rock. Then came Reed the freelance auteur, churning out spotty solo albums and delivering gnomic anti-interviews to the press. (This same Reed licensed songs to The Simpsons and Beverly Hills 90210, and appeared in ads fo...

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Rolling Stone magazine founder and fanboy Jann Wenner has found himself wildly out-of-tune with 2023.

He built an empire on the foundations laid by Black musicians—but fails entirely to recognize that.