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The Summer When Everyone Wanted a Good, Good Night
I find it hard to even write the words “DJ Earworm.” I’ve tried to say the word “mashup” out loud alone while I’m typing, and it feels as…
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Nobody’s a Stranger When You Play “No Letting Go”
I was not alive for Dylan going electric, but I was alive for the Diwali riddim. I can’t imagine that the sixties felt so monumental. In…
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Olivia Rodrigo’s Early-Twenties Lament
“They say modern love’s a cruel endeavor,” Olivia Rodrigo sings on “u + me = <3,” a lush, desperate new song from her third album, “You…
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Lizzo in the Age of Backlash
Lizzo’s charting songs of herself, as encapsulated on her 2019 platinum record “Cuz I Love You,” were infectious, if not cool; her fat and…
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Charli xcx’s “SS26” Music Video Is a Who’s Who of the Fashion Industry
There are a few things over the years that have cemented one’s It status: receiving an advanced copy of The New Yorker because you were on…
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The Death of Afrika Bambaataa and the Afterlife of Hip-Hop
The man who was called the “godfather of hip-hop,” and who took full license from that status, is dead. Afrika Bambaataa passed away in…
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The History of Jazz Has Instantly Expanded
Like just about every major tenor saxophonist of his generation, Henderson was influenced by Coltrane, but Henderson absorbed that…
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The Art of the Fictional Pop Song
Then again, an especially good fictional song can come to feel more real than its story of origin. Lustra’s pop-punk cuckoldry anthem…
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Mad About the Mandolin
Calace, I discovered, was a Neapolitan workshop that had been making mandolins since 1825, and Raffaele Calace, the grandson of the…
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Is It Wrong to Write a Book with A.I.?
And yet the value of a novel isn’t only in its prose. On Amazon, “Shy Girl” has a rating of four out of five stars, based on input from…
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The BTS Machine Lurches Back to Life
Ten years ago, outside of Korea and Japan, fans of acts like BigBang and Loona were often seen as members of a fringe subculture. Not so…
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Taylor Swift Revives Her 2016 Met Gala Bangs at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards
The year is 2016. Taylor Swift steps onto the Met Gala red carpet with an ultra-bleached bob and sideswept bangs—a style we now refer to…
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The Soft Power of BTS
The mega-popular K-pop stars have been on hiatus for nearly four years. Their new album, “Arirang,” tests the group’s staying power in the…
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Mitski’s New Album Is a Dark Ode to Isolation
Mitski’s sound and writing style have evolved on almost every album she’s released. Her early album “Retired from Sad, New Career in…
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What a Rare Condition Can Teach Us About the Power of Music
People with musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music, are teaching scientists how the brain processes songs. Source link
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What Do We Want from a Protest Song?
He is also sitting in front of a screen. “Am I the only one willin’ to bleed / Or take a bullet for bein’ free / Screamin’ ‘What the…
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A Pioneer of Electronic Music Reanimates Old Songs
The project evolved out of an informal recording session. In the summer of 2025, the Copelands were offered two free days in a studio in…
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In “Riot Women,” the Punks Are All Grown Up
The British drama “Riot Women” begins with a blackly comic suicide attempt. Beth (Joanna Scanlan), a teacher on what she calls “the wrong…
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How Bad Bunny Saved the Grammys
The Grammys have long been a dependable engine of outrage. Every year, it seemed, one humiliation or another would seize the ceremony,…
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Morton Feldman’s Music of Stillness
“I really don’t feel that it’s all necessary anymore,” Morton Feldman told an interviewer in 1972. “And so what I try to bring into my…
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Santos Bravos Hits the Runway in Paris
Willy Chavarria’s multi-layered fall show packed a few surprises, not least a Paris Fashion Week debut and performance—two, actually—by…
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Why Albums Drop and Movies Launch
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Brady Brickner-Wood is filling in for Kyle Chayka. In the summer of 2007, Kanye West and 50 Cent…
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Art Pop Princess Hemlocke Springs Is Your Next Music Obsession
It's a bit ironic when hemlocke springs tells me she isn't a finisher, as we're a month away from the release of her anticipated debut…
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11 Things We Thought at Enhypen’s Virtual Listening Party for ‘The Sin: Vanish’
On the sixth day of the new year, normally a bleakly depressing time for corporate employees, Enhypen had a treat in store for their fans.…