I'm an artist and I think the most powerful art is usually misunderstood. | | | | | Beyoncé in Raleigh, N.C., on May 3, 2016. (Kristopher Harris/Flickr) | | | | | | “I'm an artist and I think the most powerful art is usually misunderstood.”
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| | rantnrave:// It was a year of death, social struggle and political upheaval. These are the artists who helped us get through it, whether through confrontation, escape or both. Or simply through the transcendent power of a great pop song. These are the artists who provided our soundtrack to 2016. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| History-reclaiming visual album offers new tools to see and be seen. | | |
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| For her first single from what we expect will be her next album, Beyoncé glorified the black New Orleans culture that is both hyper familiar to me, having grown up in the city, and dramatically invisible in the national media. | | |
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| Numbers and cultural impact don’t lie: His current three-pack is perfect, and historic. | | |
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| “In 10 years I’ll be the biggest country star on this planet. … And there’s nothing they can do to stop that.” | | |
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| How did the New York EDM duo and the pop singer-songwriter wind up with 2016's biggest hit (11 weeks at #1 and counting as of this writing)? Here are some of the smartest reads on the music, politics and inevitability of "Closer." | | |
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| It's Super Bowl Sunsay, and I am in the large gothic home of Real Housewife Carlton Gebbia in Beverly Hills, the setting for Rihanna's Vogue shoot. The 28-year-old singer appears in the doorway, fresh off a plane from Toronto, where the night before she and Drake wrapped the video for their hit single "Work." | | |
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| With a new album and chapter in his life, Kaytranada is giving all of himself for the first time. | | |
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| The stylish 19-year-old rapper has made his way from obscurity in Atlanta to working with LeBron James and Kanye West. | | |
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| After being pigeonholed as a lonely folk singer, Angel Olsen is reinventing herself as a rock’n’roller in a tinsel wig. It’s not her first transformation. Or her last. | | |
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| Singer-songwriter Margo Price entered the garage on a wave of acclaim and notoriety that is rare for an artist with only one album. But Margo's country music bona fides are not in doubt. | | |
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| In a revealing conversation with Rookie's Tavi Gevinson, Solange Knowles speaks out on motherhood, racism and black empowerment -- themes that dominate her third studio album, A Seat at the Table, which was released today: "I like to think that this is my punk moment." | | |
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| At just 23, Chance The Rapper has already earned the love and respect of his elders, like Kanye West, who let him lead off on "The Life of Pablo," and his musical peers, who hear a generational voice in his third mixtape, "Coloring Book." | | |
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| For a singer who's sought privacy in the parking lot of a Target so he could record vocals in the backseat of his car, Will Toledo hasn't been shy about sharing his work. By age 23, he'd already released a dozen albums. Toledo, who records under the name Car Seat Headrest, is prolific but never conventional. | | |
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| We waited and waited and waited, and then Frank Ocean, the most famous ghost in modern pop, graced us with an album, a magazine and another album. All in the space of 48 unexpected hours. People, not at all unexpectedly, have a lot to say about it. | | |
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| We went to Liverpool to spend some time in the company of Detroit's prodigal son. | | |
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| Mitski’s ‘Puberty 2’ is a transcendent album about being young, a little weird, and very American. | | |
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| The Brooklyn rapper's debut track landed him at the top of the charts. Now is his chance to show he has what it takes to stay. | | |
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| For the better part of a year, was planning to call his sophomore LP "Still Krazy," an apt follow-up to 2014's "My Krazy Life." But just weeks before its release this week, he changed the name to Still Brazy and shared the accompanying title track --a candid look at what's transpired in the Compton rapper's life since "My Krazy Life." | | |
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| In three days, the Drive-By Truckers will release their 11th studio album, “American Band” -- a strident, political powerhouse of a record that’s directly relevant to where our nation and the South find themselves today. | | |
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| "This Skepta album is fire! It's his first one, right?" a friend and hip-hop fan asked me earlier this week. It got me thinking about the unique position the British MC and producer now finds himself in-a veteran in music and a legend in the grime scene, but an unknown quantity for many American rap fans who are being introduced to him through a Drake Instagram or a Hot97 interview. | | |
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| The 1975's Matty Healy on the nature of culture and pop as an artform. | | |
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| Political, powerful, but also something new -- Tribe’s first album in 18 years is a Q-Tip tour de force. | | |
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| Kanye's longtime wingman shares the saga of "The Life Of Pablo"'s first track, with appearances from Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin, and Justin Bieber. | | |
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| Since her chart-topping coronation, the superstar singer has been determined to balance her real life with her record-breaking career. From behind the scenes of her world tour, she opens up about the challenges of motherhood, melancholy, and mega-stardom. | | |
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| In the video for David Bowie's "Lazarus," released last week, the mythic singer and rock 'n' roll shape-shifter, ever thin but bordering on gaunt, is blindfolded and writhing in a hospital bed. "Look up here, I'm in heaven," he sings. "I've got scars that can't be seen." | | |
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