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News Articles: Music Reviews

Cassie Ventura (left) and Sean Combs at the Met Gala in New York City in 2017. Ventura testified for the prosecution in the criminal trial of Combs, who is charged with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transporting to engage in prostitution. Combs has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

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Sean Combs trial: Cassie concludes four days of testimony

On Friday, Sean Combs' defense lawyers questioned Cassie Ventura about how much of the former couple's activities she willingly participated in. "I had to fight my way out," she said.

May 19, 2025
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Soprano Barbara Hannigan takes the spotlight on <em>Electric Fields</em>, a new collaborative album inspired by the 12th-century abbess and composer Hildegard von Bingen.

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Under the spell of Hildegard: A new album reboots ancient music

The 12th-century abbess, scientist and composer inspires new interpretations of her music, and new works, on an album spotlighting soprano Barbara Hannigan.

May 09, 2025
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  • Tom Huizenga
On his long-awaited new chapter, <em>SABLE, fABLE</em>, Bon Iver revels in fresh comforts in subtle, surprising ways, without sacrificing the ache that animated his early work.

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On 'SABLE, fABLE,' Bon Iver embraces fresh possibilities

Bon Iver's new album, SABLE, fABLE, explores a world of new possibilities for the artist, and in the accumulation of hardships and opportunities that got him to this fresh start.

April 11, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
Lucy Dacus frames her new album, <em>Forever Is a Feeling</em>, around a vision of love as a well-tended slow burn.

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  • Music Features

For Lucy Dacus, the dreamgirl of boygenius, fantasies carry a lesson

Even as the songs on Forever Is a Feeling chronicle a love that's come to fruition in public, Dacus still creates a particular kind of safe space for the fans who delight in swooning with her.

March 24, 2025
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  • Ann Powers
Over just a few months, the four members of the K-pop group BLACKPINK (left to right: Jisoo, Jennie, Lisa and Rosé) have all debuted new releases as solo artists.

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As BLACKPINK's members try on solo stardom, only one finds a perfect fit

What does a K-pop idol look like when set free from the system? On their own for the first time, Jisoo, Jennie, Lisa and Rosé each arrive at a different answer.

March 24, 2025
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  • Sheldon Pearce
Playboi Carti onstage in February, performing with The Weeknd during the 67th Grammy Awards. The rapper's long-delayed third studio album is titled, simply, <em>Music</em>.

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Playboi Carti, a rap superstar who's never acted like one

MUSIC is the elusive rapper's first album in five years, but his presence has loomed heavy over hip-hop — and the fanbase whose ears he retuned for extremity.

March 18, 2025
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  • Sheldon Pearce
Playboi Carti onstage in February, performing with The Weeknd during the 67th Grammy Awards. The rapper's long-delayed third studio album is titled, simply, <em>Music</em>.

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  • Music Features

Playboi Carti, a rap superstar who's never acted like one

MUSIC is the elusive rapper's first album in five years, but his presence has loomed heavy over hip-hop — and the fanbase whose ears he retuned for extremity.

March 18, 2025
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  • Sheldon Pearce
Olly Alexander's Polari is an exploration of queer identity that includes songs like "Cupid's Bow."

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Olly Alexander deciphers queer identity on Polari

The album's namesake, Polari, is a set of a few hundred words and phrases that was adopted by gay men as a way of speaking in secret during periods of criminalization.

March 09, 2025
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  • Ryan Benk
Panda Bear

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Panda Bear navigates a bold new world: the uncertainty of middle age

For most of the '00s, Panda Bear helped define the sound of youthful, ramshackle indie rock. On Noah Lennox's eighth album, Sinister Grift, the artist focuses on the shifting relationships and faltering memories of midlife, with a fleshed out band behind him.

February 28, 2025
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  • Andy Beta
<em>$ome $exy $ongs 4 U</em>, Drake's collaborative album with his OVO Sound signee PARTYNEXTDOOR, returns to the murky R&B sound that defined his breakout years.

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A battle-scarred Drake tries making love, not war

On the rebound from a public defeat, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U reverts to the sound of Drake's early years, charting a tentative course back toward the rap throne.

February 22, 2025
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  • Sheldon Pearce
Paul McCartney plays at the Bowery Ballroom, a small club in New York City. Last week, he surprised audiences by playing three shows at the club, which usually plays host to up-and-coming indie rock bands.

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Paul McCartney, live from New York: The easy genius of the cute Beatle

Last week, the hottest ticket in NYC wasn't the SNL 50th anniversary concert. It was the three nights Paul McCartney played at a tiny downtown venue that usually hosts up-and-coming indie rock bands.

February 18, 2025
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  • Ann Powers
On its sophomore album, Horsegirl strips its sound back to post-punk basics.

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Horsegirl finds power in keeping things playful

Horsegirl's sophomore album Phonetics On & On is a compulsively replayable record full of arrestingly catchy, bare-bones songwriting and twee treasures.

February 18, 2025
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  • Hazel Cills
<em>Hurry Up Tomorrow</em> is Abel Tesfaye's sixth studio album as The Weekend — and, he's declared, his last under that identity.

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What was The Weeknd?

Abel Tesfaye's hedonistic alter-ego meets his end on Hurry Up Tomorrow, forcing listeners to ask just who we've been partying with all this time.

February 08, 2025
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  • Sheldon Pearce
On his new album, <em>Dreamcatcher</em>, James McVinnie offers a fresh take on the venerable, and often misunderstood, pipe organ.

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Can James McVinnie change your mind about the pipe organ?

On his new album, the British keyboardist offers both engaging and entertaining contemporary works for the misunderstood instrument.


January 17, 2025
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  • Tom Huizenga
Saxophonist Devin Daniels and trumpeter Julien Knowles distinguished themselves on breakthrough releases this year — Knowles on his solo debut, <em>As Many, As One</em>, and Davis on his own own star-making <em>LesGo!</em>, each of which features the other as a crucial contributor.

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The Essential Jazz Discoveries of 2024

This year's unmissable jazz releases came in two flavors: breakthrough releases by driven young newcomers, and a heap of unearthed treasures from the vault.

December 12, 2024
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  • Nate Chinen
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