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Danny Moloshok / Reuters Watching the Grammys
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Spencer Kornhaber / The Atlantic Kanye's Beautiful, Haphazard Yeezy Season 3 Spectacle
The Life of Pablo debuted at Madison Square Garden with a mixture of joyful chaos, careful choreography, and boredom.
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HBO Vinyl: Forrest Gump, but for Classic Rock
Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger’s HBO series complicates the myths of the ’70s but doesn’t make them interesting.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters When to Ignore Kanye West
When he tweets “BILL COSBY INNOCENT !!!!!!!!!!” is one example.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Beyoncé’s Radical Halftime Statement
As Coldplay blandly strained for the universal, she and Bruno Mars pulled off something more specific and more daring.
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Bettmann / Corbis Maurice White, Michael Jackson, and the Excellence of Disco
Spike Lee’s new film Michael Jackson's Journey From Motown to Off The Wall spotlights the same sort of work ethic that drove Earth, Wind & Fire’s success.
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Tom Weatherill The Postindustrial Electronic Bar-Fly Blues
Junior Boys’ gorgeous new album Big Black Coat sounds cold on purpose, says Jeremy Greenspan.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Lady Gaga’s High-Stakes February
The Super Bowl, Grammys, and Oscars offer her a respectability hat-trick, after which maybe she can come back and save pop music.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters Music Sales Are Music PR
Platinum and Gold certifications now reflect streaming figures, but it’s still very hard to quantify a musician's commercial success.
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Roc Nation Rihanna's Anti Capitalism
The new way to make money off a blockbuster album
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Stephane Mahe / Reuters The Joyless Pop-Star Freakout of 2016
Rihanna’s Anti and Sia’s This Is Acting pair interesting ideas with forgettable songs.
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Andy Kropa / AP How Rihanna's ‘Work’ Works
Her hugely hyped single with Drake embraces the joy of repetition.
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Mal Langsdon / Reuters Breaking the Silence in the Music Industry
The downfall of a rock publicist is another sign of how speaking up about sexual predation can bring about change.
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Track of the Day: 'Roll, Truck, Roll'
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NBC Glenn Frey’s Glorious ’80s
After the Eagles, he helped define the Miami Vice sound.
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Bart Babinksi What Will the Sound of Jazz Be in 2016?
After a year in which musicians got unusual crossover attention, the New York City Winter Jazzfest forecasts a year of innovation, vitality, and diffusion.
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Will Brooker Life as Bowie
Thoughts on David Bowie from a professor who’s in the middle of a year spent impersonating him
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Colby Williams / Flickr Track of the Day: 'I'm a Truck'
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Reuters David Bowie's Perfect Farewell
He used his creativity and the power of silence to set the terms of his exit, and not for the first time.
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Jimmy King What Is David Bowie's Blackstar Really About?
Mysterious and gorgeous, his 25th album obsesses over ego.
