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Reggae: The Music That Was Built to Survive Everything
Reggae is sixty years old and it is still being misunderstood by the people who love it most. That is not a criticism. It is almost a tribute....
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Dash Crofts of Seals and Crofts Dies at 85
Dash Crofts, the guitarist and vocalist who formed one half of Seals and Crofts, died on March 26 at the age of 85. The California soft-rock duo were...
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Post-Punk: The Sound That Did Not Know What It Was Becoming
Post-punk is not a genre that has a clear origin point, a founding text, or an agreed-upon definition. It is, instead, a name applied after the fact to...
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UMG Calls Drake Hypocritical in Appellate Brief Over Not Like Us Lawsuit
Universal Music Group filed an 83-page appellate brief this week that essentially tells Drake to stop embarrassing himself. The label’s response, submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals...
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Afrobeats: The Sound That Did Not Wait for Permission to Go Global
Afrobeats did not ask permission to become one of the dominant sounds of global popular music. It just became that, gradually and then all at once, and the...
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Dua Lipa Joins the Cast of A24 Comedy Peaked and This Is Not a Vanity Project
Dua Lipa is about to become one of the few pop stars who can claim a genuine acting career alongside a music one, and the gap between those...
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Soul Music Has a Problem With Its Own Name and Has Never Cared
Soul music has a problem with its own name. The word “soul” gets used to describe everything from sixties Atlantic Records gospel-influenced R&B to nineties neo-soul to whatever...
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Wolf Alice Play SNL UK and Remind Everyone What a Band With Something to Prove Looks Like
Wolf Alice are not a band that needs a television appearance to prove anything. Three albums in, a BRIT Award for Group of the Year still warm in...