Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rock critic and author Griel Marcus sits for a portrait at his studio at his home in Oakland. It's the 50th anniversary of his ...

Music philosopher Greil Marcus listens back to The Doors and hears dread and light and Thomas Pynchon. Members of the Doors pose for an undated publicity photo. From left; John Densmore, Robbie ...

TRIBUTES have poured in for “passionate sociologist” Fr Micheál Mac Gréil, who has died in Westport Co Mayo after a short illness. The sociologist and campaigner was aged 93 at the time of his death.

When it was first published in 1975, “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music” was immediately recognized as something new. In six taut, probing, far-ranging essays about certain ...

“Perhaps the most pernicious strain of contemporary criticism says one thing before it says anything else, says it to whatever historical event or cultural happenstance is supposedly at issue: ‘You ...

In The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years, Greil Marcus challenges preconceptions of what form a book devoted to a band and its music can take. We can usually assume an author enjoys ...

On his early morning walk above Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, the distinguished pop culture anthropologist Greil Marcus is prone to getting an old song stuck in his head, just like anybody else.

Rolling Stone is happy to be the new home of “Real Life Rock Top Ten,” a monthly column by cultural critic and RS contributing editor Greil Marcus. Mark Ronson’s arrangement is posthumous, and almost ...