Memoir

In her new memoir, The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde reveals just how much sex, drugs, and rock and roll it took to become one of rock’s baddest women. Turns out: no more than anyone else. 

When “Persepolis” creator Marjane Satrapi grew up in Iran during the 1979 Islamic revolution, listening to music was a political act.

Not long ago, Stephin Merritt wrote the first “confessional” song of his life. Then he wrote 49 more.

“Portlandia” star and rocker discusses her artistic trajectory with Sleater-Kinney.  

President Barack Obama will touch down in Hanoi on Sunday. He’s just the third US president to visit since the end of the Vietnam War. This woman escaped that war — and found out that it’s never too late to heal.