Noah Berlatsky

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

Under the guise of philanthropy, 8 Minutes essentially blackmails some of the most marginalized and powerless people in society.

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.