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The Guitar Sounds New Again

Nancy Walecki

April 14, 2026

Culture

Ye Wants Your Forgiveness. So What?

Spencer Kornhaber

April 10, 2026

Culture

The Album That Made Me Fall Back in Love With Heavy Metal

Spencer Kornhaber

April 2, 2026

Culture

Richard Wagner in the Present Tense

Chris Cohen

April 1, 2026

Books

Sondheim’s Confessions

David Hajdu

March 20, 2026

Culture

Raving at the End of the World

Álex Maroño Porto

March 14, 2026

Ideas

AI Isn’t Coming for Everyone’s Job

Adam Ozimek

March 11, 2026

Culture

The Midlife Crisis Comes for Millennial Pop

Spencer Kornhaber

April 2026 Issue

Poem

Misrule Music

Robert Pinsky

April 2026 Issue

Culture

Slow Down, Charli XCX

Spencer Kornhaber

February 24, 2026

Podcasts

Is AI Ruining Music?

Charlie Warzel

February 13, 2026

Radio Atlantic

Iran Wants Him Arrested. He’s Going Back Anyway.

Hanna Rosin

February 12, 2026

Culture

What Happened to the Great American Protest Concert?

Spencer Kornhaber

February 11, 2026

The Atlantic Daily

When the Two Sides of the Culture War Meet

David A. Graham

February 9, 2026

Culture

The Big Message of the 2026 Grammys

Spencer Kornhaber

February 2, 2026

Books

There Is a Word for What Is Happening in Minneapolis

Gal Beckerman

January 30, 2026

Culture

Rage in the U.S.A.

Spencer Kornhaber

January 29, 2026

Culture

Trump’s Golden Age of Culture Seems Pretty Sad So Far

Spencer Kornhaber

January 20, 2026

The Atlantic Daily

Was Infinite Jest Right About Everything?

Will Gottsegen

January 18, 2026

Culture

The Soul of the Grateful Dead

David A. Graham

January 12, 2026

Culture

How Bad Bunny Did It

Spencer Kornhaber

February 2026 Issue

Ideas

The Podcast ‘Productivity’ Trap

Thomas Chatterton Williams

December 30, 2025

Ideas

The Problem With Letting AI Do the Grunt Work

Nick Geisler

December 30, 2025

Technology

ChatGPT Needs More Cowbell

Nancy Walecki

December 24, 2025

Culture

The Sound of a Charlie Brown Christmas

Anna Holmes

December 24, 2025

Culture

AI Is Democratizing Music. Unfortunately.

Spencer Kornhaber

December 22, 2025

Culture

The Happiest Man in Music

Spencer Kornhaber

December 18, 2025

Culture

The Savage Empathy of the Mosh Pit

James Parker

December 16, 2025

Culture

The Art of Airing Your Dirty Laundry

Anna Holmes

December 16, 2025

Best Of

The 10 Best Albums of 2025

Spencer Kornhaber

December 12, 2025

Books

The Star Who Represents Iran’s Golden Age—And Its Future

Arash Azizi

December 10, 2025

Letters

‘Sudan Is a Good Place to Wage Peace’

January 2026 Issue

Humor

Trump’s Very Weird Night at the Kennedy Center Honors

Alexandra Petri

December 8, 2025

Culture

The Father of Rhythm Guitarists

David A. Graham

December 5, 2025

Family

Why Taylor Swift’s Accent Has Changed

Olga Khazan

December 3, 2025

Books

The Great Mystery of Drumming

James Parker

January 2026 Issue

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