Music

Bob Weir Made the Grateful Dead (The Atlantic, January 12, 2026)

Steve Cropper: The Father of Rhythm Guitarists (The Atlantic, December 5, 2025)

What Lisette Model Saw in Jazz (The Atlantic, October 2025)

An Elegy for the Late, Great American Composer Carla Bley (The Atlantic, October 19, 2023)

You’ve Never Heard John Coltrane Like This Before (The Atlantic, October 9, 2021)

Why a 41-Year-Old Record About Fascism Matters Now (The Atlantic, November 30, 2021)

Thelonious Monk’s Quiet, Slow Conquest of the World (The Atlantic, October 18, 2017)

Chuck Berry: An Appreciation (The Atlantic, March 19, 2017)

Laurie Anderson Interview: Making Art in the Age of Trump (The Atlantic, June 1, 2016)

Without Jazz and Blues, There’s No Americana: J.D. Allen Profile (The Atlantic, May 17, 2016)

The Roots of Funk in Kinston, North Carolina (Our State, October 2018)