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Music news and analysis from The Nation
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How the experimental artist made one of the year’s most defiant pop records.
June 29, 2020
While other mainstream rappers might create one song or one album dedicated to the unrest, Killer Mike and El-P have carried that torch for six years.
June 17, 2020
During the first months of quarantine, she crafted an album in real time—and, in the process, celebrated how online connection changed the way we live and create.
June 5, 2020
Ted Hearne and Saul Williams’s Place captures the volatile energies of a changing city beset by the forces of late capitalism.
May 29, 2020
A new podcast illuminates why the spy agency preferred pop music in the cultural Cold War.
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May 28, 2020
Recent albums from Perfume Genius and Yves Tumor restore the power of genre-bending music
May 7, 2020
The loss of revenue from live events is only the start of this particular disaster.
April 30, 2020
I think he’d chime in on Joe Troop’s “A Plea to the US Government to Fully Fund the Postal Service.”
April 24, 2020
What can musicians do now? We can play to wash away some of the pain and grief.
April 21, 2020
Her climate change pop album Miss Anthropocene is riven with contradictions.
