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Neneh Cherry's 'Broken Politics' Has Great Strength In Its Understated Music

4:48pm November 05, 2018

by Will Hermes

Neneh Cherry started her music a career in a punk rock band, then she started rapping. Her new album, Broken Politics is a philosophical meditation on staying strong in trying times.

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An image of Mac Miller, who died suddenly in September, projected on the rear of the stage at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, Calif., before a benefit concert organized in Miller's honor.

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What Will Mac Miller's Legacy Be?

3:10pm November 05, 2018

by Frannie Kelley

The rapper, who died suddenly in September at 26, built a community of musicians around him that crossed boundaries. Many of those artists showed up to memorialize Miller in concert last week.

Mac Miller, performing on April 14, 2017 at Coachella. The rapper's death on Sept. 7 was determined to have been an accidental overdose.

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Mac Miller Died From Overdose Involving Fentanyl, Coroner Finds

3:06pm November 05, 2018

by Andrew Flanagan

The Los Angeles medical examiner said cocaine and ethanol were also present at the time of death.

Bonjay inside the World Cafe Performance Studio

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Bonjay On World Cafe

2:31pm November 05, 2018

by Talia Schlanger

The duo performs songs from the album Lush Life, a love letter to the swirl of cities and the people they bring together.

Dragon Inn 3 released a music video for "Backstabber."

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Dragon Inn 3 Pays Homage To '80s & '90s Clichés In 'Backstabber' Video

2:11pm November 05, 2018

by Bruce Warren

It's everything we loved about John Hughes' movies, MTV videos and Miami Vice.

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Strut Your Stuff To Arctic Flowers' Gloomy 'One Step'

2:00pm November 05, 2018

by Lars Gotrich

Not many post-punk bands will throw down a four-on-the-floor drum kick, but then, not many post-punk bands are like Arctic Flowers.

"When it goes well, it feels more like something that's happening through you as opposed to something you're doing," Chris Simpson (right of center) says of writing new Mineral songs.

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Mineral's First Song In 20 Years, 'Aurora,' Feels Like A New Dawn

12:27pm November 05, 2018

by Lars Gotrich

For its upcoming 25th anniversary, the Austin emo band will release a book paired with two new songs that capture the warm frenzy of Mineral's signature sound.

Opening the vault of Prince music videos precedes a forthcoming Netflix documentary directed by Ava DuVernay in cooperation with the artist's estate.

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Watch 3 Rare Prince Videos For 'Endorphinmachine,' 'Rock And Roll Is Alive,' 'Dolphin'

12:24pm November 05, 2018

by Salvatore Maicki

The Prince Estate has announced that it will be digitally uploading videos from the artist's visual archive on a weekly basis.

Vince Staples returns with his third studio LP, FM!

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Vince Staples' 'FM!' Is A Potent Critique Of How We Consume Black Art (And It Slaps!)

9:45am November 05, 2018

by Rodney Carmichael

Leave it to rap's reigning iconoclast to release a summertime album full of bops and cognitive dissonance in the dead of fall.

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Grammy-Winning Trumpeter Roy Hargrove Dies At 49

8:03am November 05, 2018

Roy Hargrove died Friday night in New York City. The cause was cardiac arrest, according to his longtime manager. Hargrove had been admitted to the hospital for reasons related to kidney function.

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