Greil Marcus News Today

Cat Power and her band are not a simulacrum of Bob Dylan; they gracefully step into the songs, striking the right balance between honoring and making it anew.

John Robb's The Art of Darkness unburies an estimable wealth of knowledge of goth music and can sit comfortably beside the works of Greil Marcus and Jon Savage.

From a Swiss 'spaghetti harvest' to a rhino on a city council, these pranks went above and beyond.

History's greatest hoaxes are proof that with effort and a little luck, you can fool a lot of the people, all of the time.

We now continue with Elvis Presleys compilation albums, not just greatest hits LPs but collections of songs from various periods of his career.

In our Western folklore, Lottie Deno is a lady gambler, the "Queen of the Pasteboards," "Mystic Maud" and "The Angel of San Antonio."

Exploring what drives the creatives who shape our world, the Reveal issue is out now

Forty years after the Swiss punk outfit Kleenex/LiLiPUT broke up, the primary document of the band is finally available in English.

The Greatest Night In Pop is the new Netflix documentary about the making of We Are The World. But did you know that an Aussie star was in the room that night?

Bob Dylans third album The Times They Are A-Changin was his darkest and most political, a modern folk landmark that remains a template for socially conscious music.