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Music industry
Music industry news and analysis from The Nation
November 8, 2018
A new indie rock supergroup sums up the best of the genre's recent women-led wave.
October 30, 2018
Meditating on death, decay, and ancient tragedy, the California composer’s new album, Aviary , finds calm in darkness.
October 26, 2018
Honey , the Swedish artist’s first solo album in eight years, is a triumph of cerebral pop music.
October 6, 2018
Nate Chinen’s new book confronts the contemporary jazz moment with clarity and authority.
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June 8, 2018
At his best, Kanye West could be something of a Walt Whitman with Pro Tools. His new album, Ye, sadly feels like something halted in mid-sentence.
March 8, 2018
MGMT and Poliça’s new albums offer songs of solace and alarm.
February 15, 2018
Despite all of the sex baked into Blood , the album is striking for the sense of solitude that lurks beneath its surface.
December 15, 2017
Gustav Åhr was emo-rap’s most visible representative and the genre’s most mainstream success, but what set his music apart was not its despair but its deep sense of hope.
December 8, 2017
A review of popular music reveals striking and distressing similarities in the way men talk about and deal with women in today’s society.
