John Seabrook

As UMG’s leader, he has solidified the dominance of Universal, the largest of the Big Three label groups, helping it to overtake Warner Music and Sony. More than half of Spotify’s twenty most streamed artists of all time are signed to UMG. But Grainge is also the consummate music man, with forty-five years of experience on both the publishing and the label sides of the business. He oversees a long list of formerly independent labels, including Interscope, Republic, Capitol, Motown, and Island. “…

Over French toast at Ladybird, an East Village vegan place, Marr recalled selecting guitars for his collaborator, Pat Graham, to photograph. He soon realized that “Marr’s Guitars” was going to be more than a coffee-table book for fetishists. It became a musical memoir of his encounters with great guitars that, he said, “turned my daydreams into sound.” Each time he pulled out an instrument, he said, “I remembered what movies I was watching, why I bought it—who I fookin’ was. It all came back.” I…

The four-piece British rock band was in town recently for two sold-out shows at Forest Hills Stadium. On the morning between gigs, Helders went to Fotografiska New York, the U.S. branch of the Swedish photography museum. He wanted to check out an exhibition of the work of Terry O’Neill, the British lensman who assisted in the birth of rock photography, in the early sixties. Helders carried his digital Leica. Over an Americano in the museum’s lobby, he explained that he’d shot the cover photo wit…

Marshall Chess never got to run his father’s label, which recorded musicians like Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry. Now he has an album of reinterpreted classics.

Over alternative whiskey sours, the singer-songwriter explains how a psilocybin-induced revelation prompted to her to go secretly sober.

The pop singer’s trial for copyright infringement of Marvin Gaye and Ed Townsend’s “Let’s Get It On” highlights how hard it is to draw the property lines of pop.

The newly remarried rock star ponders life without David Crosby and why he still sends roses to Joni Mitchell.

The sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell, of the rock band Larkin Poe, hit up a guitar store before a gig at Webster Hall.

How Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, two friends from the Isle of Wight, got a music career and five Grammy nominations by fixating on an old chaise longue.

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E.V.s are virtually silent, so acoustic designers are creating alerts for them. A symphony—or a cacophony—of car noise could be coming to city streets.

Gerard Renodo and his architecture-crazy high-school classmates finagled a private tour of the Brooklyn Tower, the borough’s first supertall skyscraper, where they pondered Batman vibes and gentrification and searched for a souvenir to take home.

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Ford’s F-series trucks make up the best-selling vehicle line in the U.S. Can its new F-150 Lightning compete with Tesla in the E.V. market?

Can the booming market for non-alcoholic drinks offer a safe way to return to the bar?

Fleets of electric scooters have taken over city streets worldwide. With New York finally climbing aboard, do they represent a tech hustle or a transit revolution?

Companies are figuring out how to balance what appears to be a lasting shift toward remote work with the value of the physical workplace.

Taking a break from “Bill & Ted,” Alex Winter dug into the rock star’s archives to make a documentary that frames him as a First Amendment culture warrior in the tradition of Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor.

During the coronavirus pandemic, telemedicine looks like the future of health care. Is it a future that we want?