Articles by Kevin Johnson
Yo-Yo Ma Performs Pablo Casals’ ‘Song of the Birds (El Cant dels Ocells)’
Pure Nostalgia of Minecraft’s ‘Wet Hands’: How C418 Turned One Chord Change Into an Emotional Gut Punch
Ella Fitzgerald Quoted Wagner and Gershwin Mid-Solo on ‘Blue Skies’ and Made It Sound Like They Belonged There
Bruno Mars Broke Down the Three Genres Behind ‘Risk It All’: Bolero Rhythm, Mariachi Strings, and R&B Soul
Gorillaz Perform ‘Clint Eastwood’ on SNL, the Hit Built from a Suzuki Omnichord Preset
David Gilmour Turns 80: The Two ‘Comfortably Numb’ Solos Capture Everything Great About His Playing
Isata Kanneh-Mason Champions Clara Schumann: Thunderous ‘Scherzo No. 2’ Deserves a Women’s History Month Spotlight
‘MacArthur Park’ on Ice: How Alysa Liu’s Olympic Gold Sent Donna Summer’s Disco Epic Back to No. 1
How Sienna Spiro Turned a ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Mistake Into Her First Billboard Hit
Lou Reed Would Be 84 Today, and ‘Perfect Day’ Still Holds His Greatest Contradiction
Jacob Collier Turned 15,000 Fans Into a Choir Singing Coldplay’s ‘Fix You’ at the O2
Chick Corea’s ‘Spain’ Finds New Soul in Barbora Botošová’s 2026 Romani-Inspired Violin Performance
As Zelda Turns 40, ‘Zelda’s Lullaby’ Is Iconic for a Reason: How Koji Kondo Turned 8-Bit Limits Into Strength
Taylor Swift’s ‘Opalite’ Returns to No. 1 — and Its Classic Harmony Helps Explain Its Staying Power
Willie Colón’s Legacy Lives On — and ‘Idilio’ Reflects the Brassy, Urban Salsa He Made His Own
Christina Aguilera Whispered ‘Don’t Look at Me’ While Recording ‘Beautiful’ — and Linda Perry Kept the Take
Smokey Robinson Wrote ‘My Girl’ for The Temptations, and It Became His ‘International Anthem’
Bad Bunny’s ‘DtMF’ Hits No. 1 After Super Bowl Performance, Driven by 43 Million Streams
Wisp Transforms Green Day’s ‘Last Night on Earth’ Into a Shoegaze Soundscape
Inside the ‘Pink Panther’ Theme: How Henry Mancini Built an Iconic Sax Line for Plas Johnson
‘Can’t Help Falling in Love’ Started as an 18th-Century French Heartbreak Song
Alan Walker’s ‘Faded’: Why Four Chords and a Simple Melody Conquered the World
