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Music industry
Music industry news and analysis from The Nation
January 3, 2019
The Department of Homeland Security recruits agents at country festivals, but the musical genre knows no borders.
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.
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October 6, 2018
Nate Chinen’s new book confronts the contemporary jazz moment with clarity and authority.
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.
