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The singer, Riit, holds a microphone onstage and closes her eyes as she sings. She is wearing a dark blouse and a long, translucent green skirt. Behind her onstage is another musician.

April 2020

A New Sound for Inuit Music

March 12, 2020June 16, 2020 - by Carly Lewis

Riit’s new album fuses throat singing and electropop, pushing the borders of both genres

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

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

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

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

Six cassettes with unspooling tape coloured in pink, red and orange

Arts & Culture

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

A wax figure replica of Céline Dion at Madame Tussauds in Las Vegas

Arts & Culture / September 2019

Céline Dion Is Everywhere

August 28, 2019January 13, 2023 - 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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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?

December 2018

How to Make Opera Cool

January 11, 2019July 12, 2019 - by Simon Lewsen

As interest in traditional performance declines, upstart indie companies are fighting to keep the art form alive

Colin Dutcher playing piano with room with high-vaulted ceilings

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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

March 2018

How to Make a Hit Song in 2018

March 5, 2018March 27, 2020 - by Tariq Hussain

Why artists are rethinking old formulas for chart-topping music

woman on stage at a concert singing into microphone

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Travel Notes from the New Constellations Tour

December 20, 2017November 27, 2019 - by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

What I learned from playing alongside Lido Pimienta, Elisapie Isaac, July Talk, and others

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A New Sound for Inuit Music

Taylor Swift Is the Surprising Face of Millennial Anxiety

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

When Sexism Makes for a Catchy Song

Céline Dion Is Everywhere

In Times of Crisis, We Need Classical Music

How to Make Opera Cool

How Jeremy Dutcher Keeps His Ancestors’ Language Alive

How to Make a Hit Song in 2018

Travel Notes from the New Constellations Tour

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