Links
Kate Beaton: “Nasty”
Jessica Hopper: Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
Maura Johnston, “Post-menopausal antiquing, or: Please, Rick Moody, just quit it”
Allen Lowe, “Keeping the American in African American”
Rachael Maddux, “Do we need a Postal Service reunion?”
Michaelangelo Matos, “Why Grammys put other awards to shame”
Zel McCarthy, “Insomniac’s raves aren’t as bad as the LA Times is saying — they’re worse”
Wesley Morris, “Bow down to the queen: Notes on Beyonce’s halftime show”
Nick Murray, “With “Merry ‘Go Round,” Kacey Musgraves starts writing the future of country”
Ned Raggett, My Bloody Valentine: mbv
The Singles Jukebox, Margaret Berger: “I Feed You My Love”
Katherine St Asaph, “The Grammys’ R&B and rap problem”
Oliver Wang, “Bullet points: How hip-hop handles the gun”
Seth Colter Walls, “The ‘one drop rule’ of jazz”