Joni Mitchell

On the long and continuing struggle of women artists for recognition on their own terms.

Ann Powers’s deeply personal biography of Joni Mitchell looks at how a generation of listeners came to identify with the folk singer’s intimate songs.

Joni Mitchell might not have wanted to be the glamorous bard of women’s rising consciousness, but with “Blue,” she became just that.

A new release records the musician’s early metamorphosis—unmoored, broke, living for a time in an attic—when her lodestar was her big, strange, unwieldy talent.

One of the greatest living artists in popular music still isn’t properly recognized.

It radically shifted the way the world looked at the environment, but created a wave of misinformation we’re still dealing with today.

A new book asks how music criticism can reckon with the lives of immoral artists.

A biography of Stevie Nicks does little to dispel the magic.