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Music

Photograph of Justin Bieber from Justin Bieber’s Instagram
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Call It a Comeback

September 11, 2015June 17, 2021 - by Joshua Ostroff

In the ’90s, alternative music killed big shiny tunes. How pop has returned from the dead

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Album art for Beauty behind the Madness
Uncategorized

Working for the Weeknd

August 27, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Simon Lewsen

The Canadian singer’s new record takes a turn toward pop, but the sexual politics are still complicated

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The Prime Minister’s Playlist
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The Prime Minister’s Playlist

August 19, 2015March 29, 2021 - by Sean Michaels

“Obama’s is fine. Mine is better”

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Photograph by Alexi Hobbs
September 2015

Tongue Twister

August 18, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Simon Lewsen

A Québécoise singer takes an Anglo turn—without abandoning her roots

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CD player and jagged little pill
June 2015

An Older Version of Me

May 22, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Kaitlin Fontana

Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill at twenty

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Photograph of Jay Z by Kim Erlandsen/NRK P3
Arts & Culture

The Rising Tide of Music Streaming

April 8, 2015November 20, 2023 - by Joshua Ostroff

In which Jay Z introduces a new blueprint for paying artists more than the modern norm

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Nickelback tour bus pelted with eggs and spraypainted
April 2015

Too Bad

March 25, 2015April 10, 2020 - by John Semley

Why we hate Nickelback—and why that’s okay

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Photograph by Jens Schlenker/Elbjazz Festival
January/February 2015

Piano Man

December 19, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Luc Rinaldi

Chilly Gonzales reinvents music education

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Shirtless, bearded man in front of stage lights
July/August 2014

Glass Boy

June 30, 2014April 14, 2020 - by John Semley

A hardcore punk front man grows up

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Photograph by Pat Bolduc
December 2013

Electric Powwow

November 11, 2013June 22, 2021 - by Waubgeshig Rice

A Tribe Called Red creates the urban Aboriginal soundtrack

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