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Jordan Reportedly Bans Band With Gay Frontman From Performing
April 27, 2016 • The members of Mashrou' Leila say Jordanian authorities are trying to stifle their political message — and endorsements of gender equality and sexual freedom. At the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Saturday night, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band paid tribute to Prince with a cover of "Purple Rain."
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Bruce Springsteen's Tribute To Prince Is A Lesson In Public Mourning
April 27, 2016 • The two musicians both emerged in the 1970s and hit simultaneous critical and commercial peaks a decade later. At a show in Brooklyn on Saturday, The E Street Band covered "Purple Rain." Beyoncé released her sixth album, Lemonade, on Saturday night via HBO and Tidal.
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Close To Home: A Conversation About Beyoncé's 'Lemonade'
April 26, 2016 • What Beyoncé has us talking about with Lemonade is what women are always talking about, late night on the phone, after the kids are down, over coffee, irrespective of anybody's album drop: our worth. Prince playing Madison Square Garden in February of 2011.
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Still Would Stand All Time: Notes On Prince
April 24, 2016 • No black artist who came before him aggregated so many diverse people in the service of anti-normativity and perverse polymorphism; the world is a better and richer place for it. Prince on stage in The Netherlands in 1986, during the tour for his album Parade.
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Listen To My Body Tonight: How Prince's Transgressive Spirit Broke Boundaries
April 22, 2016 • In the nearly four decades of music Prince made, propriety and prejudice were regularly vanquished by good humor and elegant lust. Cate Le Bon's fourth album, Crab Day, was released April 15.
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'The World Is Absolute Nonsense': The Cosmic Quest Of Cate Le Bon
April 16, 2016 • Welsh songwriter Cate Le Bon's stage name is a joke that went too far. For years, she celebrated her birthday on the wrong day. Like her life, her new album, Crab Day, is freewheeling but focused. Jamie xx, searching through shelves of used vinyl in a New York record store.
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Jamie xx On Vinyl, DJing And Hunting For Records
April 14, 2016 • The easiest way to understand the music of Jamie xx, a producer and DJ whose dance-inspired beats are tempered with reserved atmospherics, is to accompany him on a crate-digging excursion. OG Maco.
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OG Maco: 'I Want To Give The World A Fighting Chance'
April 13, 2016 • "I don't want anybody to do exactly what I'm doing," says the Atlanta rapper. "I want people to look at why I'm doing what I'm doing. And if you agree with that, you go do what you do about it."
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Flyers for Honey Soundsystem, Wrecked and Men's Room.
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Reclaiming The Queer Dance Floor
April 12, 2016 • A new crop of parties across the U.S.A. is reconnecting dance music with a particular chapter in its own vivid history. Merle Haggard on stage in California in 2010. Haggard died at 79 on April 6.
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