David Hajdu

Ann Powers’s deeply personal biography of Joni Mitchell looks at how a generation of listeners came to identify with the folk singer’s intimate songs.

An unprepossessing townhouse in the East Village has been central to a series of distinctive events in New York City history.

How the institution’s reactionary origins still leak into today’s film culture.

Questlove’s debut as a director, the documentary "Summer of Soul," revisits a musical event that encapsulated the energies of Harlem in the 1960s.

Or everything that came before Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus walked down that “Old Town Road.”

Rock music owes much of its claim to coolness to the Christian faith.

Guthrie challenged the commercial aesthetic of the pre-rock era through a performance style that was almost combatively anti-musical.