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Van Morrison Discusses How Music Used to Be More Spontaneous and Communal
Between 1968, when Van Morrison released the intensely lyrical song cycle “Astral Weeks,” and 2016, when he released the alternately…
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The Misreading of Mitski | The New Yorker
Mitski, the twenty-eight-year-old singer-songwriter who, this past August, put out “Be the Cowboy,” one of the best albums of the…
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Our Favorite Songs of 2018
Illustration by Cari Vander Yacht Cuco, “Sunnyside” There’s a dreamy, floating quality to Omar (Cuco) Banos’s songs that belies the…
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Mark Fisher’s “K-Punk” and the Futures That Have Never Arrived
Mark Fisher was a writer and academic from the English Midlands who, in the early two-thousands, felt at odds with…
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The Ten Best Albums of 2018
If you are a person who believes, as I do, that popular music is a mirror of sorts—that it reflects…
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Drake and Lamar lead but women shine through in Grammy nods
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake led Grammy Award nominations on Friday, but Cardi B, Lady Gaga,…
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“Amazing Grace” Gives Us Aretha Franklin at the Spellbinding Height of Her Powers
One of my favorite moments in all of music is from the album “Songs of Faith,” which Aretha Franklin recorded…
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Is Rap Finally Ready To Embrace Its Women?
Just a few weeks after its release, “Twerk,” by City Girls and featuring the superstar rapper Cardi B, entered Billboard’s…
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NY judge orders rapper Cardi B to stay away from victims in brawl
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York judge on Friday ordered rapper Cardi B to have no contact with two…
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Rappers Kendrick Lamar, Drake lead Grammy award nominations
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake led Grammy Award nominations on Friday, with eight and seven nods,…
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