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[ad_1] Combining the momentum of pop-punk, the crunch of hard rock, and the flamboyant productions of glam, New Jersey band My Chemical Romance announced their disbandment in 2013 and released their last new song in 2014. 2019, “The Foundations of Decay” is his first new material since then. No punk sarcasm for now; As the …
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[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — Backstage on NBC’s live broadcast “American Song Contest” last week, crooner Michael Bolton He looked comfortable as usual. Still, he was aware that he was the strange contender out there. After performing the inspirational ballad “Beautiful World” in the second semi-final, “Why would you be in a show like this?” it …
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[ad_1] LOVE SONGS OF WEB DU BOIS, By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. (Harper Perennial, 816 p., $20). Named one of Book Review’s Top 10 Books of 2021, this debut novel chronicles the converging stories of a Black girl growing up at the end of the 20th century and the “songs” of her Native American and enslaved …
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[ad_1] Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) are reunited as Black Star 24 years after their first and only previous full album with “No Fear of Time” with the encouragement of an ideal producer choice: chest digging, funk loving Madlib. Much of the new album is exclusive to subscription podcast app Luminary, but …
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[ad_1] WILLIAM BLAKE VS. WORLDby John Higgs Just as some religious believers privilege the cultivation of a personal relationship with the divine, those of us who have the chutzpah to call ourselves Blakes often make the poet-artist-visionary our own William Blake. A scholar I know speculated that the poet, like himself, must have high histamine …
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[ad_1] Pop singer “I try not to hate myself every day” Sam Smith she sings on a new single, “but lately it doesn’t hurt like it used to.” “Love Me More” is a simple yet compelling ode to self-acceptance, and Smith delivers it with an airy lightness that convincingly brings the message home. The arrangement …
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[ad_1] in 2011, Mavis Staple and his band visited Woodstock, NY to perform at the barn-studio-theatre of the band’s drummer, Levon Helm; They appeared together in the Group’s “The Last Waltz” in 1976. Helm’s band joined the group, with his sister Yvonne Staples also on backing vocals, and they recorded the show. More than a …
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[ad_1] The disco revival continues in “About Damn Time,” featuring Lizzo’s rubbery, “Get Lucky” bass line, and a bridge (“I’m coming tonight, I’m leaving tonight”) overflowing with Diana Ross glow. . More crowd-pleasing than last year’s Cardi B duet “Rumors,” “About Damn Time” is the first official single from Lizzo’s long-awaited album “Special,” which will …
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[ad_1] “If you want to change the past, all you have to do is try to record what’s in it.” This is how Natalie Hodges’ bright memories of the trials begin. UNCOMMON MEASURE: A Journey Between Music, Performance, and the Science of Time (220 pp., Bellevue Literary, paperback, $17.99), In his early 20s, he reconciled …
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[ad_1] Alienation gets an electronic spark in “Psychofreak” Camila Cabello“Familia” full of songs about jealousy. On “Psychofreak,” she sings about feeling detached, insecure, and suspicious: “Trying to connect, no Wi-Fi/say you love me, are you lying?” Against the fragile percussion and emotionless chords in the off-beats, Cabello seems relatively calm despite what his lyrics say, …
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[ad_1] In “As Is” Harry Styles Influenced by the peppy electro-pop genre that The Weeknd updates from bands like a-ha. The song is from Styles’ third album, “Harry’s House,” due May 20, and its persistently optimistic production fuels the ambiguity in the lyrics. When he says “There is only us in this world/You know, it’s …
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[ad_1] If you’re not familiar with the weird and wonderful world of the New Zealand folk musician Aldus HardingFascinating music video of 2019 single “Barrel” probably the place to start. The song is chirpy and light—lightly strumming acoustic guitar chords, a lively piano riff—but as the video progresses, a comforting feeling of uncanny creeps in. …
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