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'Rolling Stone' Updates Its List Of The Greatest Albums Of All Time

7:20pm September 25, 2020

Rolling Stone magazine has updated its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, tabulating hundreds of lists from musicians, critics and music industry workers.

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Listen To The War And Treaty Perform 4 Songs From 'Hearts Town'

12:07pm September 25, 2020

Married and musical duo Tanya Blount-Trotter and Michael Trotter Jr's second full-length tackles topics of jealousy in relationships gone wrong and one of Michael's lowest moments.

Sufjan Stevens, onstage during the Academy Awards on March 4, 2018 in Los Angeles.

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Sufjan Stevens' Fifty States Of Grey

2:23pm September 24, 2020

by Lindsay Zoladz

On his new album, The Ascension, Stevens beautifully considers love, doom and the modern condition of our riven commons.

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Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin On Hope, Suffering And Verdi's 'Requiem'

1:46pm September 24, 2020

by Terry Gross

Nézet-Séguin chose Verdi's Requiem for his 2012 inaugural performance as music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He says the piece now helps him find a sense of connection during the pandemic.

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The album art for SAULT's UNTITLED (Rise)

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SAULT's 'Little Boy' Is A Tribute To Fragile Childhood Innocence

10:08am September 24, 2020

by Marcus J. Moore

This song, part of our 'We Insist' timeline of 2020's noteworthy protest music, was released Sept. 18.

Brandy Clark plays a Tiny Desk (home) concert.

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Brandy Clark: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

6:29am September 24, 2020

by Ann Powers

The Nashville songwriter performs four songs from her picturesque loft apartment, including fan favorite "Hold My Hand."

Archbishop Franzo King who, with his wife Marina, co-founded the St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church, in a portrait shot in Jan. 2020.

Five Decades On, An Eclectic Church Preaches The Message Of John Coltrane

9:04pm September 23, 2020

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

In 1965, two young fans heard the jazz giant play at a San Francisco club and had a religious epiphany. Their church is an idiosyncratic and joyful blend of devotion to the divine — and to jazz.

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A view of the Metropolitan Opera ticketing office in 2018.

Met Opera Says It Won't Return Until Fall 2021

6:27pm September 23, 2020

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Opera fans will have to wait another whole year for live performances at the famed New York house. In a press release Wednesday, the Metropolitan Opera says it plans to reopen on Sept. 27, 2021.

An undated portrait of the violinist Lara St. John.

Top Music School Finds Sexual Abuse Allegations From Violinist 'Credible'

5:40pm September 23, 2020

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

In a report released Tuesday evening, Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music said that violinist Lara St. John's account of being raped and sexually abused by her teacher is credible.

Dua Lipa released her second album, the glossy, pristine Future Nostalgia, in March, just weeks after COVID-19 locked the world into quarantine. The sure-footedness of her dance floor-inspired pop gained ironic resonance in the uncertainty of the moment t

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How Dua Lipa's Day-Glo Nostalgia Found A Home In Dark Times

4:42pm September 23, 2020

by Jason King

A pair of euphoric projects have helped to make the singer a ray of light for pop fans longing for the dance floor in a year filled with calamity.