How the Polaris Prize Pictures the Music
Each year, visual artists create custom posters for shortlisted albums. The results are often astonishing
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Do You Have a Musical Guilty Pleasure? Claim It
Why Chilly Gonzales believes Enya has the voice of an angel
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A New Sound for Inuit Music
Riit’s new album fuses throat singing and electropop, pushing the borders of both genres
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Taylor Swift Is the Surprising Face of Millennial Anxiety
Like most of my generation, Swift knows the exhaustion of constantly selling yourself as a brand
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The Terrifying, Techno-Dystopian Visions of Grimes’s New Album
The singer’s new album explores a dark truth: the most dangerous social forces are also the ones that fascinate us
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When Sexism Makes for a Catchy Song
My songwriting students pen misogynistic lyrics. But the music industry tells them that’s okay
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In Times of Crisis, We Need Classical Music
What will we lose if Bach and Beethoven disappear from our schools and concert halls?
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How to Make Opera Cool
As interest in traditional performance declines, upstart indie companies are fighting to keep the art form alive
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How Jeremy Dutcher Keeps His Ancestors’ Language Alive
Fewer than 10,000 Wolastoq people live in First Nations communities. The twenty-seven-year-old sings their songs
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How to Make a Hit Song in 2018
Why artists are rethinking old formulas for chart-topping music
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