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Music industry
Music industry news and analysis from The Nation
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.
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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.
November 17, 2017
On Revelations , he trades the glitz and brashness of his early work for a more ruminative and uncertain sound.
November 1, 2017
There’s a full band’s worth of talent in that name.
April 7, 2017
The Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble is a great argument for the type of experimentation that only comes from a solid knowledge of music history and decades of experience making it.
