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Sublime Announce Their First Album in Thirty Years and It Is Called Until the Sun Explodes
Thirty years is a long time to wait. But Sublime, or at least the people still breathing who made Sublime what it was, announced this week that a...
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Country Music Is at War With Itself. That Is Why It Is So Interesting Right Now.
Country music has never really been a single thing. It has always been an argument. Between tradition and change, between Nashville and everywhere else, between the people who...
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Jack White Names the Price Being Paid While Trump Plans to Brand the Dollar
Jack White is not in the habit of staying quiet when he thinks something has gone wrong. He proved that again this week when he addressed Donald Trump’s...
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R&B: The Genre That Rewrote Everything and Kept Going
R&B is the most elastic genre name in popular music. It has covered territory from jump blues to doo-wop to soul to funk to quiet storm to contemporary...
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Joni Mitchell, Nelly Furtado, and a Canadian Music Night Worth Watching
Canada’s biggest night in music has arrived. The 55th Juno Awards are happening right now in Hamilton, Ontario, at the TD Coliseum, and the early results are painting...
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Hyperpop: The Genre That Never Agreed to Be a Genre
Hyperpop started as a provocation and became a genre by accident, which is appropriate for a sound built on accidents being turned up too loud. The origin story...
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Tate McRae Takes Four at the Junos and Does Not Even Show Up to Collect Them
Tate McRae didn’t show up to the Junos. She didn’t need to. The hardware came to her anyway. The 22-year-old Calgary-born pop star swept the 55th annual Juno...
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Jazz Is Not Dying. It Is Mutating.
Jazz has been dying for as long as anyone can remember, which is one way of saying it has not died. The more precise way of saying it...
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Aja Monet Announces The Color of Rain, a New Album Made with Meshell Ndegeocello
Aja Monet announced a new album this week, and it arrives co-produced by Meshell Ndegeocello, which should tell you this is not going to be a small thing....
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Ambient Music: The Genre That Asks Nothing of You
Ambient music has a paradox at its center: it is the most demanding genre disguised as the most passive one. Brian Eno, who more or less named and...