Because I use pop lyrics in my poems and review records for SPIN and elsewhere, people sometimes ask me whether I think of song lyrics as poetry. Looked at in certain ways, they obviously are; in ...

Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in literature last year, renewing an old debate: Are pop lyrics poetry? (Lex Van Lieshout/European Pressphoto Agency) Michael Lindgren is a frequent contributor to The ...

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It’s that rare, beautiful week of the year when two of the nation’s best indie artistes have new albums out: Ten Stories by Shillong-based Soulmate and The Scene by Bangalore-based Thermal and a ...

Now almost 40 years old, rap burst out of the Bronx to become one of the dominant musical and cultural forces in this country. A new book, The Anthology of Rap, tracks the development of the genre -- ...

Lyrics are often compared to poetry. Are they a form of "the poetic art?" Are they less "artistic?" Poetry has a romantic aura to it, whereas lyric writing seems rather plebeian (to borrow a word from ...

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But, drippily evangelical though I am about the Mancunian misery-guts, I was surprised last week to read that an academic has pronounced him a poet to rank with Philip Larkin. Dr Gavin Hopps, a ...

As Jim Morrison's career evolved over its egregiously abbreviated lifespan, the lead vocalist for The Doors became as ambivalent about his image as the image itself turned ambiguous. From obscurity to ...