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A Vegas Showgirl Is Suing Taylor Swift Over a Trademark the Government Already Flagged
Taylor Swift has been sued by a Las Vegas showgirl performer over the name of her most recent album, and the lawsuit lands at an interesting time for...
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Country Music: The Genre That Has Been Arguing About Itself for a Century and Cannot Stop
Country music has been having an identity crisis for so long that the crisis has become the identity. The debates about what qualifies as country, who belongs in...
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Garbage and Placebo Bring the Best Night of Robert Smith’s Teenage Cancer Trust Run
There is a version of the Teenage Cancer Trust concert series that functions as a pleasant charity benefit, and then there is the version Robert Smith put together...
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Soul: The Genre That Always Meant What It Said
Soul music does not need a definition. It needs a listen. Put on Aretha Franklin’s “I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You” from 1967, or...
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Céline Dion Is Coming Back. She Is Doing It in Paris.
Six years is a long time to be away. For Céline Dion, those years were not spent resting or waiting for the right moment. She was fighting stiff-person...
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Hip-Hop: The Genre That Rewired Popular Music and Still Has Not Stopped
Hip-hop is fifty years old and still being described as a genre rather than a culture, which tells you everything about how persistent the misreading is. What started...
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Jimmy Page Releases Home Demo of Ten Years Gone, a Window Into How Led Zeppelin Built Physical Graffiti
Jimmy Page is not done making the case for what Physical Graffiti actually means. On Monday, the Led Zeppelin guitarist shared a home demo of “Ten Years Gone”...
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R&B: The Genre That Delivers a Feeling and Never Stopped Knowing How
R&B has spent the last decade being absorbed by everything around it and still managing to remain itself. That’s not a small achievement. The genre has been dissolved...
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Drake Returns to the Junos and Reminds Everyone Why Nelly Furtado Still Matters
There is something genuinely strange about watching Drake return to the Juno Awards in 2026 after a fifteen-year absence, and that strangeness is the whole point. The occasion...
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Emo: The Genre That Was Never Embarrassed About Feelings, Even When Everyone Else Was
Emo spent about fifteen years being embarrassed about itself. Then it spent the next fifteen years being reclaimed, reexamined, and quietly vindicated. At this point the argument is...