| "The Best Albums of 2024" |
Dec. 23, 2024 |
| "Esperanza Spalding and Milton Nascimento's Endless Reinventions" |
Oct. 2, 2024 |
| "Seeing Ourselves in Joni Mitchell" |
June 11, 2024 |
| "Arthur Russell's Endless Reinventions" |
June 20, 2023 |
| "What the Oscars Represent: Meritocracy Without Merit" |
Mar. 8, 2023 |
| "The Best Albums of 2022" |
Dec. 29, 2022 |
| "Julius Eastman's Great Expectations" |
Aug. 12, 2022 |
| "The Best Albums of 2021" |
Dec. 24, 2021 |
| "The Last Days of the Beatles" |
Dec. 15, 2021 |
| "What the Harlem Cultural Festival Represented" |
July 29, 2021 |
| "St. Vincent's Journey Into Musical Memory" |
July 7, 2021 |
| "The Music We Made in Lockdown" |
Feb. 17, 2021 |
| "The Best Albums of 2020" |
Dec. 18, 2020 |
| "The Two Maria Schneiders" |
Aug. 17, 2020 |
| "This Is the Sound of Gentrification" |
June 5, 2020 |
| "The Magic of Bill Withers" |
April 9, 2020 |
| "Expect the Unexpected: On the Music of Hildur Gudnadottir" |
Feb. 5, 2020 |
| "10 of 2019's Best Albums" |
Dec. 30, 2019 |
| "Do Auxuman's AI Singers Herald the Shape of Music to Come?" |
Dec. 12, 2019 |
| "Who Gets to Tell the Story of a Lost Music Culture?" |
Nov. 15, 2019 |
| "Chrissie Hynde Sets a New Standard" |
Oct. 11, 2019 |
| "A Haitian Music Oral History That Bends Space and Time" |
Sept. 18, 2019 |
| "An Essential Primer on Punk's Feminist History" |
Aug. 12, 2019 |
| "Caroline Shaw and the Shock of the New" |
July 18, 2019 |
| "Beethoven Was the Johnny Rotten of His Day" |
Nov. 27, 2019 |
| "A Short History of Country Music's Multicultural Mishmash" |
June 7, 2019 |
| "Billie Eilish's Radically Quiet Pop" |
May 3, 2019 |
| "Listening to Michael Jackson Will Never Be the Same" |
Mar. 22, 2019 |
| "Jeremy Denk Explains the History of Western Classical Music (Yes, All of It)" |
Mar. 15, 2019 |
| "Julia Wolfe's Haunting Elegy to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory" |
Feb. 14, 2019 |
| "The Best Albums of 2018" |
Dec. 21, 2018 |
| "Myra Melford's Snowy Egret is Jazz's Most Dynamic Quintet" |
Dec. 19, 2018 |
| "Ambrose Akinmusire’s Jazz of Pure Possibility" |
Nov. 18, 2018 |
| "Jason Lutes’s Berlin Sets a New Standard for Graphic Novels" |
Oct. 19, 2018 |
| "Nate Chinen’s Daring New History of Modern Jazz" |
Oct. 6, 2018 |
| "William Parker’s Late-Career Bloom" |
Aug. 16, 2018 |
| "Kanye’s Discontents" |
June 8, 2018 |
| "Kinetic Improvisation" (Mary Halvorson) |
May 10, 2018 |
| "Behind Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Selection" |
April 23, 2018 |
| "The Genre of Post-Genre" (William Brittelle) |
March 13, 2018 |
| "David Lang's Collaborators" |
February 26, 2018 |
| "The Marvel of Cecile McLorin Salvant" |
December 26, 2017 |
| "The Best Albums of 2017" |
December 20, 2017 |
| "Songs of Aggression" |
December 8, 2017 |
| "The Satisfactions of St. Vincent" |
November 1, 2017 |
| "From Jazz Clubs to Classrooms" |
August 31, 2017 |
| "Wired Up and Let Loose" |
July 31, 2017 |
| "Cruise to the Edge" (Prog Rock) |
July 13, 2017 |
| "Adapting 'Angels in America'" |
June 16, 2017 |
| "Incremental and Slow in Coming" |
May 31, 2017 |
| "Bold-Sounding Things" (Protest Music) |
May 16, 2017 |
| "Ella Fitzgerald at 100" |
April 25, 2017 |
| "Who Needs the NEA and NEH?" |
April 7, 2017 |
| "Remembering Chuck Berry" |
March 20, 2017 |
| "The Keith Jarrett Phenomenon" |
March 1, 2017 |
| "Bruce Springsteen’s Redemption Song" |
December 1, 2016 |
| "Darcy James Argue’s Terrific Thrill" |
November 25, 2016 |
| "Bob Dylan, Nobel Laureate in Ashtray-Binding" |
October 13, 2016 |
| "Pop Progress: From the Beatles to Nicki Minaj" |
October 3, 2016 |
| "The Virtue of Patience " (Daniel Clowes) |
September 8, 2016 |
| "Hit Machine" (Katy Perry at the DNC) |
July 29, 2016 |
| "David Ackles, Rediscovered Again" |
July 20, 2016 |
| "Now He’s Amazed" (Paul McCartney) |
June 22, 2016 |
| "A James Brown Book Like No Other" |
July 4, 2016 |
| "Old Locks and Irregular Verbs" (Henry Threadgill) |
June 3, 2016 |
| "Prince: The Moment’s End" |
April 22, 2016 |
| "Why Donny McCaslin Was David Bowie’s David Bowies" |
Jan. 26, 2016 |
| "Trump the Improviser?" |
Jan. 21, 2016 |
| "Drifters, Mopers, and Defeatists" |
December 23, 2015 |
| "Forget What You’ve Heard: The Ten Best Albums of 2015" |
December 17, 2015 |
| "Steve Coleman Works the Connections" |
December 2, 2015 |
| "A Jazz Singer" (Mark Murphy) |
Oct. 30, 2015 |
| "It’s an Old Trope…" |
Oct. 29, 2015 |
| "Whistleblowers Composed" (Ted Hearne) |
October 6, 2015 |
| "Who Loves You" (Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra) |
September 29, 2015 |
| "Next to Nothing: The Economics and Aesthetics of Streaming " |
August 24, 2015 |
| "U2 and the Art of Digital Compromise" |
August 7, 2015 |
| "Theo Bleckmann’s Bazaar " |
July 1, 2015 |
| "Words for Music Perhaps" (Philip Glass) |
May 4, 2015 |
| "A More Perfect Pitch" (Roomful of Teeth) |
April 28, 2015 |
| "The Strange Story of Hungary’s Unofficial National Anthem" |
March 19, 2015 |
| "Some Enchanted Standards" |
February 2, 2015 |
| "History Redressed" (Taylor Mac) |
January 21, 2015 |