Music

    The Weight of a Note: Louis Armstrong and the Art of Being Inevitable

    More than any other figure in American music, Louis Armstrong didn’t just shape jazz — he invented what it meant for a soloist to matter.

    The Beast Awakens: How Iron Maiden’s The Number of the Beast Forged the Sound of Heavy Metal

    Forty years on, the album that introduced Bruce Dickinson to the world remains one of the most perfectly constructed records in hard rock history — and its ambitions still feel audacious.