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News Articles: Music Features

<em>Traumazine</em> raffirms Megan Thee Stalllion's skills as one of rap's bar-for-bar heavyweights.

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  • Music Reviews

Megan Thee Stallion resets her terms with 'Traumazine'

The rapper's second studio album reaches for a confessional mode, making space for ruminations and grief — while reaffirming her skills as one of rap's bar-for-bar heavyweights.

August 19, 2022
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  • Shamira Ibrahim
French cellist Héloïse Luzzati, 37, launched La Boîte à Pépites to promote the forgotten works of women composers.

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  • Music News

A new label revives forgotten female composers' music

The new record label La Boîte à Pépites is dedicated to raising the profile of female composers whose works have been neglected.

August 17, 2022
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  • Olivia Hampton
Olivia Newton-John at a London press conference in 1978. The pop singer, actress and activist died August 8 at 73.

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  • Music Features

Olivia Newton-John, a sexy nerd for the rest of us

She was never just that prim prude from the start of Grease, nor the strutting vamp from its finale. Her superpower, for over 50 years, was embodying both at once.

August 15, 2022
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  • Evie Nagy
The heroine of <em>Prey</em>, Naru, is played by Amber Midthunder.

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  • Arts & Life

How a Grammy-winning Pueblo musician influenced the soundtrack for 'Prey'

Prey, the new prequel to the 1987 blockbuster Predator streaming on Hulu, features a sophisticated soundtrack influenced both by Native cultures and video games

August 12, 2022
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  • Tim Greiving
Kacey Musgraves performs on NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts

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  • Arts & Life

'Her Country' explores women performers' battles with gender inequality and racial discrimination

Her Country follows the rise of a new generation of women songwriters and the fellow artists and executives who supported them in an industry dominated by men.

August 11, 2022
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  • Kristi York Wooten
Ari Leff a.k.a. Lauv

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  • Music

Lauv longs for the happiness of childhood on 'All 4 Nothing'

One of pop music's main advocates of normalizing mental health issues, Lauv released a new album on Friday; it's called All 4 Nothing.

August 08, 2022
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  • Ziad Buchh and
  • A Martinez
Samara Joy performs at the 2022 Newport Jazz Festival, which spanned from July 29 to July 31, in Newport, R.I.

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  • Music Features

After a pandemic disruption, Newport Jazz Festival makes a poignant, euphoric return

The festival's first full edition in two years — and its first since the death of co-founder George Wein — saw dynamic performances from Newport veterans alongside glowing debuts from newcomers.

August 03, 2022
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  • Nate Chinen
<em>Renaissance, </em>Beyoncé's seventh full-length solo album, mines a liberating history of dance music, from Donna Summer-sampling disco to modern Chicago house.

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  • Music Features

Revolutionary Fun: Why we can't stop talking about Beyoncé's 'Renaissance'

The era-defining star's seventh album sparks a conversation about the infinite possibilities of dance music, the difference between fun and pleasure and why disco is always political.

August 01, 2022
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  • Ann Powers,
  • Jason King,
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The Heart of Afghanistan project is Ahmad Fanoos on vocals & harmonium, his sons Elham on piano and Mehran on violin, with Hamid Habibzada on tabla.

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  • Arts & Life

Thousands of Afghan artists are still trying to flee the Taliban

A family of Afghan musicians in the U.S. wants to raise awareness about their plight.

July 29, 2022
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  • Elizabeth Blair
"New Beyoncé is literally good for everybody in the world," Maggie Rogers says of <em>Renaissance</em>, which shares a release date with her own <em>Surrender</em>. "I'm so excited for this record."

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  • Music Features

Maggie Rogers' summer mixtape sweats with sweetness

Filled with pop mosaics, Surrender feels like a quintessentially summer album. Naturally, we asked Maggie Rogers for a roséwave playlist.

July 27, 2022
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  • Lars Gotrich
Jens Lekman in New York City in 2016.

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  • Music

For Swedish musician Jens Lekman, recrafting old albums was a lesson in self-love

Two of Jens Lekman's early albums were taken off streaming services due to sample clearance issues. During the pandemic, the singer recrafted them and did one of the scariest things an artist can do: He revisited his old work.

July 25, 2022
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  • Alex Cheng
Sophie Allison's third album as Soccer Mommy, <em>Sometimes, Forever</em>, is a study in contrasts: focused, intimate writing paired with wild production that whips her songs into squalls of distortion and delay.

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  • Music Features

Inside Soccer Mommy's widescreen world

Private, isolating thoughts have always been central in Sophie Allison's songs, but Sometimes, Forever breaks new ground, using the studio to blow those feelings up to arresting scale.

July 18, 2022
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  • Jewly Hight
Singer-songwriter Manizha, photographed at Eurovision in Rotterdam on May 16, 2021. She faced a cyberbullying campaign in Russia after voicing opposition to the country's military operation in Ukraine.

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  • World

A new reality reverberates through Russia's music scene

Canceled concerts, lawsuits, existential turmoil. As Russia has cracked down on anti-war speech, the country's music scene reaches a particularly high pitch.

July 11, 2022
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  • Alina Selyukh
The physicality of music — how it impacts the body and the way space can alter its effect — has been central to Caterina Barbieri's work.

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  • Music Features

Caterina Barbieri's rapturous electronica was forged in deep solitude

The Italian composer Caterina Barbieri's euphoric new album Spirit Exit was made in pandemic isolation but longs for "the outside world," in all of its imperfections and wonder.

July 09, 2022
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  • Lewis Gordon
Lilith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan performs during its 2010 revival in Camden, New Jersey.

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  • Music

25 years on, Lilith Fair is a reminder of how one woman's radical idea changed music

Lilith Fair brought an eclectic array of women's music to millions of fans and was the top grossing music festival of the 1990s.

July 05, 2022
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  • Lisa Weiner
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