The similarly uptempo "Shackled and Drawn," meanwhile, offers a political analysis worthy of Woody Guthrie: "Gambling man rolls the dice, workingman pays the bill/ It’s still fat and easy up on banker’s hill/ Up on banker’s hill, the party’s going...

"I loved the idea of Jesus being on a motorcycle...": The creative director of Nicki Minaj's maligned Grammy performance expresses surprise at all the fuss about it. The Things Perfume Genius Carries: I guess this is a regular feature over at the Fader,...

He laughed at the idea, but that the question was even posed at all gives you some idea of the fury of his new album Wrecking Ball. Indeed, it is as angry a cry from the belly of a wounded America as has been heard since the dustbowl and Woody Guthrie,...

90 years after independence, many people seem to treat the outdoors as if it still belongs to a wealthy British landlord. So Dublin, a city of 1 million has more litter on its streets than Cairo, a metropolis of 7 million. Even in the U.S. more than 200...

Wall Street would have been a hit circa 2007. Nintendo’s stock was at an all-time high, the Wii business was booming, and the outlook on almost everything was BUY. Nowadays, people don’t want to romanticize about the free-wheeling lifestyle that got...

Reed to jazz artist Jonatha Brooke and Jewish traditionalist group The Klezmatics. Guthrie said the Farrar/James collaboration made sense to her because the pair opted to carry a more personal side of her father's story to a new generation, and their...