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In 2016, Rogers was “discovered”—though the word almost feels too intentional—by the polymath hitmaker Pharrell Williams, while she was attending New York University. Williams visited one of Rogers’s classes at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, a program within the Tisch School of the Arts; he was an artist-in-residence there, and she was a senior. The institute is the sort of place where, say, Questlove might teach a seven-week course on the Beastie Boys, and the Beastie Boys might s…
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The band’s second album, “Contra,” released in 2010, débuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The songs were idiosyncratic but had shockingly broad appeal. That winter, the single “Holiday,” a reggae-inflected rock track that, for better or worse, could have been airlifted from a third-wave ska compilation, appeared in two major television commercials at the same time. More albums followed—“Modern Vampires of the City,” in 2013, and “Father of the Bride,” in 2019.
Koenig’s voice is high, clear, an…
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Kahan is from Strafford, Vermont, a town of around a thousand people. When we spoke, he was in the midst of playing a series of sold-out shows in Australia. Kahan often pulls his wavy brown hair into a low bun, and he has an affable, patient demeanor, as though in another life he would have been good at teaching toddlers how to ski, or home-brewing beer. His backing band and most of his gear had been waylaid by bad weather, so he was performing solo, on a rented guitar. The experience was nerve-…
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Yet perhaps the most compelling thing about “Saviors” is how current it feels, and not because Green Day has capitulated to the whims of the Zeitgeist but because, somehow, the Zeitgeist has bent around Green Day. The brash and propulsive pop punk the band engineered and perfected in the mid-nineties is omnipresent now. Olivia Rodrigo’s “get him back!,” a hit from last year, drew instant comparisons to Avril Lavigne, an avowed student and acolyte of Green Day. In 2019, when Billie Eilish was tas…
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For nine seasons, from 2005 to 2014, Radnor played Ted Mosby, the hapless, scruffy-haired lead on the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother.” The character—and the series—was preoccupied with the notion of true love. “When I got off the show, I was approaching forty. I was, like, I don’t know how to do this, or if I want to do this,” he said of pursuing a serious relationship. “Which was weird, because I was on a show that was all about a guy wanting that so badly.” Halfway through the sessions for…
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I’ll admit that I have an unusual—my therapist might say pathological—affinity for meandering, ponderous, vibey records that are fundamentally at odds with the pop Zeitgeist. It might be my punk-rock heart, or a response to the tumult of modern life, but, when I first heard about “New Blue Sun,” my reaction was not gentle disappointment or abject confusion but a kind of giddy thrill: Cosmic flutes, presented in the upside-down barometrical spirit of Yusef Lateef or Pharoah Sanders or John and Al…
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MacGowan was born on Christmas Day in Pembury, a village in Kent, in southeast England. His parents were Irish immigrants, and he was brought up in Tunbridge Wells, a middle-class suburb of London, often returning to Tipperary, his mother’s home town in Ireland, in the summers. As legend goes, by age five, MacGowan was already downing two bottles of Guinness a night, and was given his first taste of whiskey not long after. Those early experiences proved crucial: intoxication, impropriety, diaspo…
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Stapleton, who is forty-five, is an understated, bluesy guitarist. He has the sort of muscular, room-shaking voice that carries emotion well, but it is nevertheless gritty enough to avoid sentimentality. The feel on “Higher,” his fifth solo album, is less Lothario and more lonesome cowboy, brooding under the stars. Thematically, the album is concerned almost exclusively with affairs of the heart. If you’ve ever found yourself wondering if the human experience might be about more than just nurtur…
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But then there is the video for “Rush,” the first single from the Australian pop star Troye Sivan’s third LP, “Something to Give Each Other”—it is, as they say, horny on main. A gaggle of exceedingly hot and barely dressed young people are having a good-ass time at a party. The activities range from classic (at one point, a shirtless Sivan is hoisted over a keg of beer) to mysterious (a young man lowers a lit cigarette lighter toward his nether regions while shooting Sivan a come-and-get-it look…
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The film is a meditation on both the fallibility and the power of memory. As a child, Baez suffered panic attacks and extreme anxiety, which she later came to attribute, in part, to abuse by her father, a physicist. Her recollection of the trauma is hazy and fragmented, more feeling than narrative. She began discussing it with a therapist at the suggestion of her sister, Mimi Fariña, who, Baez said, had an “intuitive sense” that something ghastly had happened in the family. Baez made peace with…
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Plus, Hua Hsu opens the evening with a story of friendship adapted from his upcoming memoir.
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