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Justin Bieber Plays Coachella Warmup at the Roxy With Zero Songs From His Catalog
Justin Bieber played his first full concert in nearly four years on Sunday night, and he did it without touching a single song his fans actually know. The...
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Free Jazz Is Having a Moment. Here’s Why It’s Not Going Away.
Free jazz has always had an image problem. The phrase itself does most of the work: “free” implies difficult, difficult implies inaccessible, inaccessible implies not for you. For...
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Lisa Makes History as First K-Pop Artist to Book a Las Vegas Residency
Las Vegas has hosted plenty of music milestones, but Monday brought one that actually feels significant: Lisa, the Thai-born rapper and singer best known as a member of...
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Latin Alternative: The Genre That Never Stopped Refusing to Be Defined
Latin Alternative has spent thirty years refusing to be defined, and that refusal is precisely what makes it worth paying attention to right now. It is not reggaeton,...
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BigXthaPlug Made History on Two Charts at Once, and Nobody Saw It Coming
BigXthaPlug just became the first artist to top both the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts with the same song. That is not a footnote....
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Electronic Music Has No Home and Never Needed One
Electronic music is the only genre that has no instrument of its own that is not already borrowed from something else. It uses the synthesizer, which was invented...
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Matt Krupanski, Founding Drummer of BoySetsFire, Has Died
Matt Krupanski, the founding drummer of Delaware post-hardcore band BoySetsFire, died on Saturday, March 29. He was 51. No cause of death has been given. The band broke...
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New Wave: The Genre That Turned Ideas Into Pop and Never Apologized for It
New Wave is a genre that has always meant more than it should be able to. That is a feature, not a bug. Born out of punk’s energy...
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Alternative Rock: The Genre That Made Outsider Values Into the Mainstream and Never Recovered
Alternative rock has always been a strange category. It started as a genuine descriptor, music that existed outside the mainstream rock infrastructure, and became the mainstream so thoroughly...
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Duffy Is Going to Tell Her Own Story in a New Disney+ Documentary
Duffy has not been in the room for a long time. After her debut album Rockferry made her one of the most talked-about voices in British music, she...