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News Articles: Music Reviews

The percussion ensemble Recap has released its striking debut album, <em>Count to Five</em>.

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  • Music Reviews

A young, all-women ensemble upends the percussion paradigm

The members of Recap, four young women of color from New Jersey, have built a mission of gender equity into their striking debut album.

October 14, 2021
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  • Tom Huizenga
Across Brandi Carlile's new record, <em>In These Silent Days</em>, she sounds assured, content and, often, joyful.

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  • Music Reviews

On 'In These Silent Days,' Brandi Carlile finds the beauty in the brokenness

Carlile wrote her latest album during COVID-19 lockdown, fresh off having written a memoir. The record plumbs her past with humility, but even more so, celebrates the hard-won wisdom she's gained.

October 01, 2021
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  • Brittney McKenna
Rather than a heroic journey, the story at the center of Blanchard's opera is one of self-discovery, with an assured, tactile specificity which includes a boistrous fraternity step routine that opens Act III.

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  • Music Reviews

Terence Blanchard's Met Opera Debut Is A Singular Achievement And A Shared Success

The composer's magnetically powerful Fire Shut Up in My Bones lands with a force of authenticity, a too-rare window into Black life in an operatic setting.

September 28, 2021
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By:
  • Nate Chinen
Vocalist Brendan Yates directing the dance at Turnstile's <em>Glow On</em> release show at Clifton Park Bandshell in Baltimore.

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  • Music Reviews

Get Your Booty On The Floor. Turnstile Is Here To Help

Turnstile's nothing but true to the sprawling, rambunctious spirit of hardcore. But overlooked — or at least hidden in plain sight — is the band's allegiance to funk.

September 07, 2021
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By:
  • Zachary Lipez
Kanye West is seen at a <em>Donda</em> listening event at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on July 22, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia.

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  • Music Reviews

From A Small House In a Big Stadium, Kanye Comes Up Empty-Handed

After a personally eventful year, the artist undertook another – and perhaps his most – ambitious, sprawling introduction of a new album. The results seem to be inversely proportional.

September 02, 2021
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  • Mano Sundaresan
Composer Julius Eastman's music is slowly moving from neglected to championed.

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  • Music Reviews

Julius Eastman, A Misunderstood Composer, Returns To The Light

A visionary who died young and alone in 1990, Eastman is making a slow but richly deserved comeback thanks to a curious younger generation. A new interpretation of his 1974 work Femenine is out now.

June 21, 2021
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  • Tom Huizenga
Megan Thee Stallion kicked off <em>Saturday Night Live</em>'s 46th season in style — and with substance.

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  • Music

'SNL' Musical Guests, Ranked From No. 1 To Morgan Wallen

Every year, Saturday Night Live showcases some of the biggest stars in pop, rock, hip-hop and more. At the end of each season, we rank them with cold-hearted precision.

May 24, 2021
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  • Stephen Thompson
Olivia Rodrigo's debut album, <em>Sour</em>, is out May 21, less than six months after she shattered streaming records with the breakthrough single "drivers license."

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  • Music Features

On 'Sour,' Olivia Rodrigo Is A Lowercase Girl With Caps-Lock Feelings

The debut album by the "drivers license" phenom plays like one bottled-up soliloquy after another, bursting from a quiet observer who has been paying closer attention than you think.

May 21, 2021
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  • Lindsay Zoladz
<em>Daddy's Home </em>(out May 14), Annie Clark's sixth album as St. Vincent, takes the sounds and sleaze of early-1970s New York as its aesthetic backdrop.

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  • Music Features

St. Vincent, Builder Of Rock Futures, Takes Shelter In The Past

Fourteen years after her first album as St. Vincent, Annie Clark makes a sharp turn in time with Daddy's Home, a '70s rock revue that nails the sound, if not the spirit, of its influences.

May 14, 2021
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  • Sasha Geffen
Hasaan Ibn Ali.

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  • Music Reviews

The Lost Recordings Of Hasaan Ibn Ali Reveal A Legend Just Getting Started

Nearly half of the Philadelphia-based pianist's recorded work had gone unheard for decades, until now.

April 27, 2021
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  • Tom Moon
<em>Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga </em>pushes pageantry over the top while still generating material that would thrive on a real-life Eurovision stage.

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  • Music Reviews

The 2021 Oscars' Best Original Song Nominees, Cruelly Ranked

This year's choices include Diane Warren's 12th Oscar nomination, a show-stopper from Eurovision Song Contest and three entries in a subgenre we call "Glorycore."

April 22, 2021
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  • Stephen Thompson
Even after brutal reviews for the short-lived <em>Anyone Can Whistle</em>, Stephen Sondheim continued to create provocative and form-shattering musicals.

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  • Music Reviews

A Cult-Classic Sondheim Flop Gets An Essential New Recording

An updated recording of Anyone Can Whistle, a now-celebrated musical by composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, has some surprises, even for the completist.

March 22, 2021
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By:
  • Bob Mondello
Selena Gomez on the cover of <em>Revelación</em>, her first Spanish-language EP.

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  • Music Reviews

Sharing Secrets With Selena: The Understated Power Of 'Revelación'

The Spanish-language EP presents a more intimate image of a pop singer who's still trying to find space for who she is and who she wants to be.

March 13, 2021
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By:
  • Anamaria Sayre
Chick Corea, holding a freshly won Grammy in the award ceremony's press room in LA on Feb. 8, 2015.

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  • Music Features

Considering Chick Corea's Grammys Success And The Kitchen Sink Of Genre

Corea, who died in February, remains the most-awarded jazz musician in Grammys history. But Corea, who always identified as a jazz player, wasn't landlocked by any genre conventions. He wasn't alone.

March 11, 2021
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  • Nate Chinen
A new Dusty Springfield anthology collects singles from her time with Atlantic Records.

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  • Music Reviews

On A New Anthology, Dusty Springfield's Take On Southern Soul Gets Another Look

In 1968, the British singer flew to the U.S. after signing with Atlantic Records. Her acclaimed recordings from this period are collected in Dusty Springfield: The Complete Atlantic Singles 1968-1971.

January 21, 2021
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  • Oliver Wang
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