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Taylor Swift’s ‘Poets’ Arrives With a Promotional Blitz (and a Second LP)

The pop superstar’s latest album was preceded by a satellite radio channel, a word game, a return to TikTok and…

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Music Catalog Giant Hipgnosis Agrees to $1.4 Billion Sale to Concord

Hipgnosis, which owns the rights to songs by Justin Bieber and Neil Young, helped kick-start a rush on catalog sales.…

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Maurice El Medioni, Jewish Algerian Pianist, Dies at 95

He fused the music of his Sephardic roots with Arab traditions, incorporating boogie-woogie and other influences, to create a singular…

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How the Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt Became a Chronicler of Black Jazz History

Inspired by the drummer Arthur Taylor’s “Notes and Tones” collection of interviews with fellow musicians, Pelt started his own book…

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Taylor Swift’s Music Returns to TikTok Ahead of New Album

Songs by the pop singer reappeared on TikTok despite the platform’s ongoing licensing dispute with Universal Music Group, which releases…

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How Khruangbin’s Sound Became the New Mood Music

The Texan trio’s vibes have spawned countless imitators, but their magic isn’t so easy to replicate.

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Beyoncé, ‘Cowboy Carter’ and Filling in History’s Gaps

Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music Last month, Beyoncé released “Cowboy Carter,” an album that tackles the…

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The Sounds That Made Her Move: ‘Music Fed My Life Force’

The choreographer Dianne McIntyre presents “In the Same Tongue,” a dance she calls “an artistic history of myself,” at the…

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Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ Settles the Score With Haters — and With History

Beyoncé released a genre-bending country album, “Cowboy Carter,” last week. After listening to it in all the requisite settings —…

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Puccini’s ‘Butterfly’ and ‘Turandot’: More Than Appropriation

The history and curiosity behind these operas, both set in Asia, complicate often simplistic criticisms of borrowing and stereotyping.

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