songwriting

Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’ Always Sounds New

No matter how many times you’ve heard the singer-songwriter’s unlikely 1988 hit, it feels like you’re rediscovering its modestly devastating heartbreak. That’s because the story it tells still isn’t over.

The Twisted Mind Who Loves Ruining Your Favorite Songs Forever

Meet There I Ruined It, who turned ‘Shallow’ into swing and ‘Come as You Are’ into polka

Grumpy Old Albums: The Best Records From Artists 70 and Older

Bob Dylan, at age 79, just released the acclaimed ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways.’ Here’s a salute to other albums made by music’s most vital senior citizens.

The 10 Most ‘Confounding’ Moments of Bob Dylan’s Career

Forget ‘going electric at Newport’ — we’re talking about everything from his bizarre New Jersey police run-in to his sublimely terrible IBM commercial