Best of 2019: Music Writing

The unexpected path to George Clinton’s iconic comeback

Emily Lordi on the legacy of Isaac Hayes’s album “Hot Buttered Soul” and how the artist revolutionized the genre of soul music.

Decoding the defenses and alibis that R. Kelly uses to survive the ever-increasing allegations against him.

February 25, 2019 – When I was growing up, I could not have imagined that K-pop would be popular in North American or European media. I understood the history and existence of racism and linguistic nationalism.

Billie Eilish already has billions of streams and is on the verge of pop superstardom. What have you done with your life?

For me, one world-traveling, chart-conquering rhythm — deployed by the likes of Daddy Yankee, Justin Bieber and Drake — defines the sweatiest time of year.

Fiction by John Edgar Wideman: “Our silences really, not our voices, engaged in conversation. Though I hear you singing. Softly. Clearly.”

Catapult publishes literary fiction and artful narrative nonfiction that engages with our Perception Box, the powerful metaphor we use to define the structure and boundaries of how we see others in th

So-called alternative musicians pride themselves on being more enlightened than their rock counterparts, but in my years of writing about them, I have found no end of ‘beta male misogyny’

Listen to the sound of rock gobbling pop culture.