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The Uneasy Prophecies of Cate Le Bon
There’s a scene in Netflix’s “Too Much” in which the heroine, an American transplant in London, listens to a playlist curated by her new…
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An Intimate Chronicle of Kanye West’s Fall from Grace
One simple way to think of Kanye West is as a genius stuck in the body of a child who’s always on the verge of a tantrum. He takes out his…
Business
The Muted, Melancholy Synesthetics of “The History of Sound”
In “The History of Sound,” a new romantic drama set during and after the First World War, passion is an intensely private thing, and in…
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The Lush Pain Music of Nourished by Time
Marcus Brown’s voice is a crooner’s voice, a baritone, emanating notes from some spot in his body deeper than his chest. Biologically…
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How to Survive Your Song Going Viral on TikTok
If you’ve heard the 2019 hit song “Tek It,” by the New York City-based band Cafuné, there’s a good chance it’s not the version that the…
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Ethel Cain’s Anti-Pop Stardom
Midway through the music video for “American Teenager,” a feel-good pop song that has been streamed more than a hundred million times, the…
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The Musician Bringing the Bagpipes Into the Avant-Garde
One night this past spring, the audience members at a bagpipe concert in Red Hook, Brooklyn, could be organized into two neat categories:…
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Barbra Streisand on “The Secret of Life”
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Sly Stone’s Political and Musical Awakening
In May of 1971, Marvin Gaye released what many consider to be his masterwork, “What’s Going On?” A song cycle told from the point of view…
Celebrity
Taylor Swift’s Master Plan
In retrospect, that Tumblr post might be one of the most important things that Swift has ever written. It has all the qualities of a good…
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Musicians gather to raise funds for Ukraine supplies
Musicians have gathered for a fundraising event to support the people of Ukraine. The fourth Play for Ukraine event since the war with…
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Kanye Gave Twitter an Exclusive Hit Single
One of the year’s most talked-about new songs, from one of the planet’s most influential musicians, is not available on Spotify, or Apple…