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December 25, 2024Unlike the rest of the world, it seems, the best music of this year is defined by its desire to move out of the immovable and the doctrinaire: Artists in different spheres are mixing...
October 24, 2024The singer, songwriter, and composer Randy Newman had a fascination with the legend of Faust that approached obsession. Beginning around 1981, he worked for some 15 years on an...
June 13, 2024Traveling in some vehicle, sitting in some cafe,” Joni Mitchell established a mise en scène of restless contemplation in the title song of her 1976 jazz-folk album...
