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Music
Music news and analysis from The Nation
August 7, 2019
On The Big Day , Chance gets swallowed up by the pomp, circumstance, and symbolism of his long-awaited debut album.
July 31, 2019
Folk rock group Florist’s poetic new LP, Emily Alone , is quietly showstopping.
July 18, 2019
The Pulitzer Prize–winning composer turns the history of the string quartet upside down, turning a once fusty form into something adventurous.
July 18, 2019
A segregationist senator tried to use Robinson to destroy Paul Robeson. Instead, Robinson called out racism.
July 9, 2019
His latest album, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest , tells the tale of the singer-songwriter’s complicated middle age.
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July 3, 2019
Music has been an integral part of Korea’s long march toward democracy. Today, it’s an inspiration for freedom throughout Asia.
June 18, 2019
The breakout Cuban star combines his roots with American funk rhythms.
June 7, 2019
Or everything that came before Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus walked down that “Old Town Road.”
June 4, 2019
A new generation of musicians and artists has been inspired by—and is inspiring—the uprising.
June 4, 2019
Wrapped into their new album U.F.O.F. ’s delicate folds are fragility and resilience, love and trauma, nature and ether, enclosure and space, light and dark.
