The aspiration toward a great universal love that would wipe away the loneliness that suffuses the country and its favorite holiday was the gift of America’s most gifted popular songwriters to their adopted country
Phil Spector was psychotic and abhorrent. Here’s why his art still matters.
Laments that record execs are too old and Jewish to know good club music
Al Pacino channels a Shakespearean tragic hero in David Mamet’s new HBO film
Phil Spector and Leonard Cohen’s incredible album, released 35 years ago, is a time capsule of American pop music
Never mind the nice Jewish girls like Natalie Portman, the most compelling character in today’s pop culture is Amy Winehouse, a Jewish mother’s worst nightmare but still daddy’s little girl
What are the 100 greatest Jewish songs ever? Tablet Magazine’s musicologists rank them all, from sacred to pop to hip-hop, from Rabbi Akiva to Amy Winehouse.
