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Being able to hold many meanings at once—political and personal—is at the heart of her latest album.
October 10, 2018
SOPHIE’s Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides and Blood Orange’s Negro Swan capture two high-wire acts of musical reinvention.
October 6, 2018
Nate Chinen’s new book confronts the contemporary jazz moment with clarity and authority.
September 17, 2018
On using the arts to restore the amity and goodwill among people on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
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September 10, 2018
Her new album captures a generation’s complaints and forthright sense of confidence.
August 16, 2018
After a 45-year-long career, the jazz bassist is still creating experimental music pulsing with humanity.
August 16, 2018
Angela Davis, whose bond Franklin offered to post in 1970, says that the singer’s work “helped to shape and deepen a collective consciousness anchored in a yearning for freedom.”
August 7, 2018
The Nirvana front man did not predict Donald Trump—in fact, he would have hated the man.
July 9, 2018
How a streamlined, tuneful tour diary one-ups the major release without which it wouldn’t exist.
