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Category: Pop and Rock Music
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Joe Louis Walker, Free-Ranging Blues Explorer, Is Dead at 75
A product of the San Francisco rock crucible of the 1960s, he fashioned his own brand of the blues, blending gospel, soul, rock and other genres.
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April Showers Bring May Flowers, the Playlist
Hear songs by Lana Del Rey, SZA, Waxahatchee and more.
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He Spent $12,495 to Be Gene Simmons’s Roadie (and Got More Than Expected)
A father-son pair ponied up for the V.I.P. experience last week and got a glimpse behind the scenes of a rock ’n’ roll show, and into a notorious star’s heart.
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Dance Music Is Booming Again. What’s Different This Time? A Lot.
Fans emerged from pandemic lockdowns primed to hit the floor. Now online platforms are bringing fresh sounds and budding stars to bigger audiences worldwide.
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Dance Music Is Booming Again. What’s Different This Time? A Lot.
Fans emerged from pandemic lockdowns primed to hit the floor. Now online platforms are bringing fresh sounds and budding stars to bigger audiences worldwide.
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Fiona Apple’s Statement About Jailed Mothers, and 8 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Kali Uchis, Moses Sumney and Hayley Williams, I’m With Her and others.
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In ‘Hamlet Hail to the Thief,’ Radiohead Riffs on Shakespeare
The band’s frontman, Thom Yorke, created a show with the Royal Shakespeare Company that is both admirably ambitious and a little foolish.
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Smokey Robinson’s Victory Lap Upended by Allegations of Sexual Assault
The Motown legend, 85, was touring to support a new album when he was sued and accused of sexually assaulting four women who had worked as housekeepers for him.
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Liam Payne Left a $32.3 Million Estate and No Will, Reports Say
Mr. Payne, a former member of the boy band One Direction, died after falling from a third-story hotel balcony in October.
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‘Sinners’ and Beyoncé Battle the Vampires. And the Gatekeepers, Too.
This moment might call for excessive, imaginative Black art that wants to be gobbled up. That’s Ryan Coogler’s new movie. That’s “Cowboy Carter.” Let’s throw in some Kendrick, too.
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Going Back to Pavement’s Gold Sounds
Hear 11 songs to prep for the band’s bizarro documentary, “Pavements.”