New Yorker

Los Lobos: The Entertainers: Learning from Los Lobos

Review by Nick Hornby, New Yorker, April 2001

WHAT A PIECE OF WORK is a boxed set! How infinite(ish) in faculty! In action, how like an angel! ...

Nick Cave: Sweet Misery: The Mellowing of Nick Cave

Review by Nick Hornby, New Yorker, May 2001

IT'S THE SHEER UBIQUITY of pop music that presents such an obstacle to older fans. When I was fifteen, it was satisfyingly hard to hear ...

Pop Quiz: What does the new Top Ten list mean?

Comment by Nick Hornby, New Yorker, August 2001

IN 1973, FOR AN ESSAY published in The New York Review of Books, Gore Vidal read his way through the Times best-seller list in an ...

They Might Be Giants: Urban Legends: The Do-It-Yourself Success of They Might Be Giants

Retrospective and Interview by Michael Azerrad, New Yorker, August 2002

JOHN FLANSBURGH and John Linnell–partners in the musical duo They Might Be Giants–were on their way out of a trendy little restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, ...

Marah: Rock of Ages: Marah

Profile by Nick Hornby, New Yorker, May 2004

IT'S JUST BEFORE Christmas last year, and the Philadelphia rock 'n' roll band Marah is halfway through a typically ferocious, chaotic and inspirational set when ...