Inside Long Island's UBS Arena on Feb. 9, Ye commands the crowd at a massive listening event for Vultures 1. His new collab with Ty Dolla $ign is now a No. 1. album.
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Howard's vocal malleability allows her to access a whole spectrum of contradictory emotions and gender expressions.
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On Doja Cat's fourth album, Scarlet, she delights in playing the "demon" her haters and fans accuse her of being.
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Before (left to right) Justin Vernon, Joe Westerlund, Phil Cook and Brad Cook started Bon Iver and Megafaun, they made music together as DeYarmond Edison.
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Sundial is against sitting idle, and calls not just to hear its own voice, but to enter into conversation in the griot tradition of call and response.
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Wayne Shorter performs during the Marciac Jazz festival in southern France in 2005. Two recent tribute projects each aim to capture the wandering spirit of the late saxophonist.
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For Left Hand, Becca Mancari produced the album themselves, creating their most expansive work yet.
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Jessy Lanza has spent the last decade developing house-pop music where weightless atmosphere is shot through with jittery drums.
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At the Newport Folk Festival in 2022, Joni Mitchell gave her first full-length performance in 22 years. The recording, At Newport, is out July 28.
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The weathered but hopeful The Ballad of Darren is Blur's ninth album, and third since singer Damon Albarn launched his mega-collaborative project Gorillaz.
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