
Sheldon Pearce
Editor, NPR Music at NPR
editor, @nprmusic; writer all over; author, changes: an oral history of tupac shakur (via @simonbooks)
Articles
-
3 weeks ago |
newyorker.com | Michael Schulman |Sheldon Pearce |Jane Bua |Helen Shaw
With his sallow face and boulder-like forehead, John Cazale was one of the indelible character actors of the nineteen-seventies, but his career was tragically brief. He appeared in only five feature films—all Oscar nominees for Best Picture.
-
4 weeks ago |
newyorker.com | Rachel Syme |Hilton Als |Helen Shaw |Sheldon Pearce |Taran Dugal |Jia Tolentino
Summer is a season ripe for scandal; people tend to be overheated and understimulated, looking to mist their crisping minds with idle gossip. Minor controversies can boil over, given the right temperature, into full-on imbroglios; such was the case in Paris in 1884, when the twenty-eight-year-old painter John Singer Sargent débuted a new large-scale portrait at the Salon, then the world’s most influential summer art show.
-
1 month ago |
kpbs.org | Sheldon Pearce
When Rolling Stone put Kanye West on its cover in early 2006, it set two undeniable truths on the table: how much the rapper-producer had already accomplished, and how thoroughly he recognized it.
-
1 month ago |
newyorker.com | Shauna Lyon |Inkoo Kang |Jillian Steinhauer |Sheldon Pearce
You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. Whether you are one with the sun or in love with your A.C. unit, summer has plenty in store for you that doesn’t involve a small screen.
-
1 month ago |
npr.org | Sheldon Pearce |Robin Hilton
Laufey, Fiona Apple, Lord Huron, more: The Contenders, Vol. 11 Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1252435970/1269332098" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Laufey's "Tough Luck" is one of the songs we can't stop playing this week.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 6K
- Tweets
- 13K
- DMs Open
- No

to celebrate hip-hop, here’s a series of essays by some of the greatest rap minds: judnick mayard, dart adams, meaghan garvey, zandria f. robinson, noz, jewel wicker, daudi abe, william e. ketchum iii, stephen kearse, kiana fitzgerald, jeff weiss. tap in: https://t.co/iL7h1KmQtx

to celebrate hip-hop turning 50, in the weeks running up to its birthday, we’re running 14 pocket histories thinking about the music on a regional level. first three essays are live now: https://t.co/iL7h1KmQtx

RT @jiggyraps: changes is out today! what a journey it’s been. thanks to everyone who helped see this labor of love through: https://t.co/3…