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SAULT's work reinforces the sonic connections between global Black communities — from Africa to the Americas — and brings in a multitude of voices to tell an undivided story.

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SAULT's 5-album drop deepens its long-standing communal values

Anupa Mistry

The collective's new music — Today & Tomorrow, AIIR, Earth, 11 and Untitled (God) — suggests divinity void of control or coercion, in order to contemplate our common human needs.

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On Caitlin Rose's first album in 9 years, she's wistful, wiser and having fun again

Jewly Hight

Rose's early records mixed country, pop and indie rock — a rare approach at the time. Now, she's released her lustrous new record, CAZIMI, into the musical landscape that she helped shape.

Natalie Mering — who performs as Weyes Blood — has been known to swing for the fences.

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The personal apocalypse of Weyes Blood's 'And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow'

Meaghan Garvey

The singer-songwriter's fifth album is an ecosystem of intimacy, in its power to redeem and to destroy.

Bluegrass icon Billy Strings (right) recorded his new album <em>Me/And/Dad</em> with his stepdad, Terry Barber. The album features songs that Strings learned from Barber during his childhood.

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Bluegrass icon Billy Strings brings it back home on new album with his dad

Ailsa Chang

Celebrated bluegrass musician Billy Strings has a new album out, which he made with his dad, Terry Barber.

Futura 2000's Break Train, 1980. Photograph by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/marthacoopergram/?hl=en">Martha Cooper.</a>

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How artists and influencers set the stage for Hip-Hop's global rise

Allyson McCabe

Four decades after the New York City Rap Tour made history in Europe, Hip-Hop's influence is everywhere - in art, fashion and even the 2024 Olympics.

The Mexican band Son Rompe Pera, one of the highlights of the 2022 edition of the WOMEX festival.

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Three global bands to look out for, courtesy of WOMEX

Anastasia Tsioulcas

A Mexican cumbia-punk band called Son Rompe Pera, a traditional singer from West Bengal named Rina Das Baul and a group from near Timbuktu called Al Bilali Soudan: three global acts on the rise.

Built on Bones is the new album from Colorado singer Emily Scott Robinson

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Built on Bones changes the narrative on Macbeth's witches

Julia Caulfield

Built on Bones, the new album from Colorado musician Emily Scott Robinson, is a song cycle for the witches of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Thousands of fans have showed up across the U.S., Spain and Latin America to see legendary singer Joan Manuel Serrat on his farewell tour.

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Fans bid goodbye to Spanish music legend Joan Manuel Serrat on his farewell tour

Betto Arcos

The 78-year-old, who's considered one of the greatest artists in Spanish music history, is stepping away from the stage. For some fans, the move is bittersweet.

Composer Ned Rorem in 1953 in Paris, where he lived for nearly a decade and wrote his infamous <em>Paris Diary</em>.

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Ned Rorem, major American composer and diarist, has died at age 99

Dean Olsher

The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and diarist died Friday at age 99. Although he won the Pulitzer for an orchestral work, he was most celebrated for his huge body of art songs — over 500 in all.

Barbra Streisand in 1963, one year after the recording of her performance at The Bon Soir.

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Barbra Streisand remembers the first time she 'felt the warmth of a spotlight'

Rachel Martin

Recorded in 1962, the newly remastered Live at the Bon Soir was meant to be Streisand's debut album, despite the singer's aversion to public performance.