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Music

Do You Have a Musical Guilty Pleasure? Claim It

December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 - by Chilly Gonzales

Why Chilly Gonzales believes Enya has the voice of an angel

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The artist Taylor Swift smiles and looks toward the top right of the frame. The image is covered in purple glitter, except for the area around Swift's face.
Arts & Culture / Music

Taylor Swift Is the Surprising Face of Millennial Anxiety

March 2, 2020July 23, 2020 - by Joelle Kidd

Like most of my generation, Swift knows the exhaustion of constantly selling yourself as a brand

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The singer Grimes, wearing a red velvet dress and with her hair in puffy orange-and-black pigtails, sits on a concrete throne and stares at the screen.
Arts & Culture / Music

The Terrifying, Techno-Dystopian Visions of Grimes’s New Album

February 27, 2020March 3, 2020 - by Simon Lewsen

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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Arts & Culture / Music

When Sexism Makes for a Catchy Song

November 11, 2019 - by Tariq Hussain

My songwriting students pen misogynistic lyrics. But the music industry tells them that’s okay

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Cover Story / September 2019

Céline Dion is Everywhere

August 28, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Suzannah Showler

At fifty-one, Dion is wrapping up her Vegas residency with a world tour, an album, and two movies in the works. Why has it taken forty years for the world’s most talented singer to finally become cool?

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Arts & Culture

When a Juno-Nominated Musician Lives in a Refugee Camp

June 20, 2019July 9, 2019 - by Luke Ottenhof

Her album was up for a major prize, but recognition doesn’t change the reality of being a displaced person

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Music

In Times of Crisis, We Need Classical Music

March 19, 2019December 15, 2020 - by Kent Nagano

What will we lose if Bach and Beethoven disappear from our schools and concert halls?

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First Person

Learning to Forgive My Distant Father

January 17, 2019November 14, 2019 - by Mark Abley

I always knew my dad loved me. But he often seemed to love his music more

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Arts & Culture

Leonard Cohen’s Afterlife

November 14, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Charles Foran

A posthumous collection, finished days before his death, reveals the artist at his most intimate

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Music

How Jeremy Dutcher Keeps His Ancestors’ Language Alive

June 21, 2018January 4, 2020 - by Sarah MacDonald

Fewer than 10,000 Wolastoq people live in First Nations communities. The twenty-seven-year-old sings their songs

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