Why you should watch Childish Gambino’s violent, jarring music video “This is America”
“This is America” explores the twin spectacles of entertainment and ultraviolence as the bedrock of Trump’s America.
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One man’s race to bring the forgotten music of the Holocaust to life
“It is an emergency – the survivors are 96, 97, 100 years old”
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Noise over substance: the empty politics of Kanye West
For West, expressing himself is always in itself radical – regardless of the value, or consequences, of what’s actually being said.
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ABBA is back – and so are the snobs of rock
Why should we feel guilty about knowing the words to Dancing Queen?
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Oh, that magic feeling – the intergalactic connections between space travel and rock
No one has made a record like Abbey Road since 1969, and no one’s been as excited about space since,…
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Do Shania Twain’s lyrics predict the rise of Donald Trump?
The singer tried to play down her own suggestion she could have voted for the US president.
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Shania Twain may not share Trump’s politics, but did her music predict his rise?
Lurking in the singer’s 1990s discography are veiled hints that she may have always had Trumpian moments.
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The best performer of her generation, Beyoncé surpassed even herself at Coachella
She has raised the bar of pop music so high that her musical contemporaries can only crane their necks and…
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