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    Music Review: Dirty Projectors Swing Lo MagellanThe band’s latest ranks among the most straightforwardly beautiful albums of the year so far.
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    Abebe: Why Frank Ocean’s Coming-Out Was UniqueHis moving story doesn’t seem particularly interested in clarifying the sorts of questions that usually surround coming out.
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    Music Review: Abebe on Write Me Back and the Multifaceted R. KellyRobert Kelly — Chicago institution, “Pied Piper of R&B,” formally acquitted of ignoble charges nobody’s forgotten — has a new record out this week.
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    Music Critic Nitsuh Abebe Recommends the Five Songs He Has on RepeatThis is what our music critic is listening to.
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    Abebe on the Marvelous, Reunited Brazilian GirlsOur music critic was at the band’s Monday night Brooklyn Bowl concert.
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    Get Ready for the Corporate Megarave Dance music is mainstream, raves are taking over stadiums, and promoters are salivating with wallets open.
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    Abebe: Nicki Minaj, Hot 97, and the Fight Over ‘Real Hip-Hop’Vulture’s music critic weighs in on the Nicki-Flex beef.
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    Listen to Nitsuh Abebe’s Favorite Songs of 2012 So FarEvery couple of weeks, he’ll be pulling more favorites onto the list.
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    Music Review: Abebe on the Scissor Sisters’ Magic HourDance music is mainstream again. Where does that leave outsider disco-revivalists Scissor Sisters?
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    The Last Days of Disco: Abebe Remembers Donna Summer and Robin GibbDigging through the discographies of these two artists feels like a good corrective to the way disco’s been memorialized.
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    Vulture Recommends: Five Songs to Listen ToMusic critic Nitsuh Abebe offers his biweekly picks.
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    Damon Albarn on Blur’s London Olympics Reunion“I just want to give everyone who turns up a really good send-off.”
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    Abebe on Adam Yauch’s Rare Capacity for GrowthAs a musician, it’s easy to make life seem fun when you’re young and a goon. It’s near impossible to change that image, but MCA did.
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    Lovable, Talented Bore Jack White Stretches Out on His New Solo AlbumWas a White Stripes breakup the best thing that could have happened to this songwriter?
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    iTupac Live: The Weird Logic of a Touring HologramJust think about this for a minute.
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    Lil B at NYU: What’s So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding?Internet-beloved rapper drops wisdom on uncomprehending college crowd.
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    The Indie-Folk Crossover: Commercials for Our Selves in a Hunger Games WorldTwilight’s emo-gothic glitter has been replaced by a hardscrabble, triumphal, suspender-friendly sound.
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    Get ‘Zou Bisou Bisou’ Out of Your Head With Five More Great Yé-Yé SongsThe early sixties French teen-pop genre is a blast.
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    Music Review: The Apathy and Ecstasy of Madonna’s MDNAMadge gets lost on her latest return to the dance floor.
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    The Thirteen Best, Weirdest, and Most Memorable Moments From SXSWOur critic’s favorite new bands.
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    Yes, Fiona Apple’s SXSW Performances Really Have Been Mind-blowingA critic bears witness to a genuinely staggering level of emotional sensitivity.
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    Buzz Rappers Thrive at SXSWAction Bronson and Mr. Mothafuckin exQuire get over — plus word-of-mouth raves for Fiona Apple, Titus Andronicus … and Carson Daly.
  23. The Perfect Anti-SXSW Band: Future of the LeftA little punk attitude leavens the atmosphere of monetization.
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    Bruce Springsteen’s Stump SpeechWith a little editing, the lyrics of Wrecking Ball add up to a stem-winder fit for a political convention.
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    Estelle, Robert Glasper, and the Inescapable Chris BrownNew albums by the British soul singer and American pianist-turned-bandleader. Plus, why Brown is the Monsanto of R&B.
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    Whitney Houston and the Burden of PerfectionA career with two halves.
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    Carnegie, Rockefeller, Carter? Jay-Z’s American DreamCultural horse-trading at star-studded Carnegie Hall concerts.
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    Prinzhorn Dance School: The Beauty of Obsessive, Barking English PeopleThe most wonderfully beady-eyed band in recent memory puts out a great second album.
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    Lana Del Rey: Lurching Toward VegasThe polarizing singer’s debut album reviewed.
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    Why Does America Love Skrillex?How an electronic dance music producer crossed over to massive festival crowds, the Grammys, and Kanye West.
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    Listen to 50 of Nitsuh Abebe’s Favorite Songs of 2011A year-end sampler, available on Spotify.
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    Explaining the Kanye Snub, and Other Thoughts on the Grammy NominationsSome notes on notable nominees, both the obvious and the sudden new Grammy darlings.
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    Lost in Dream-Pop: Shimmering New Music From King Krule and Bradford CoxA London teenager and a Georgia indie-rock leader find a common sound.
  34. Superhero Rap: Jay-Z and Kanye West Live at MSGKicking over buildings, snapping necks.
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    How Coldplay Became Possibly the First Band to Be Humanized by a Concept AlbumThe charming theatricality of ‘Mylo Xyloto’ actually brings Coldplay’s mid-tempo pomp uplift down to earth.
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    Radiohead in New York: Meet the BeatlesThe economics of being huge in 2011.
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    Farewell, R.E.M.: Ranking the Band’s AlbumsA band so great, and then so solid, that it’s hard to say which records are their best and worst.
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    It’s the Indie-Rock Time of Year: Five Great Albums to Check OutReviews of new work from Ladytron, Wild Flag, Das Racist, St. Vincent, and Girls.
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    Male Bonding and the Timely Return of Guitar NoiseA reaction to the pristine sweatlessness of today’s indie rock bands is emerging.
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    The Rise of Dress-up and the Fall of Pop at MTV’s Video Music AwardsMusic becomes meaningless without your Twitter jokes.
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    The Weeknd: Skeezy David Lynch of R&BThe mysterious Canadian R&B project cements its sordid aesthetic with creepy new mixtape Thursday.
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    Watch the Throne: Uneasy Heads Wear Gaudy CrownsThe new album from Kanye West and Jay-Z is equal parts tiresome and fascinating.
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    Amy Winehouse’s Intelligent SoulWhat’s worth remembering about Winehouse is that she really could be wickedly good at using her brain and her expertise to create music that really worked.
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    Fiery Furnaces Separate Heart and Head on New Solo AlbumsEleanor Friedberger’s ‘Last Summer’ is a charming pop scrapbook; brother Matthew is working through an eight-album series that sounds like technical research.
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    Shabazz Palaces: Steely, Brilliant Hip-Hop MysticismRemember Digable Planets? Old head Ishmael Butler has made one of the best records of the year with his new group.
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    Bon Iver’s Indie Soft-Rock: Transcendent or Torpid?On wanting just a little more from Justin Vernon.
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    Kreayshawn Is the Latest Controversial White RapperTwenty-one-year-old female Oakland rapper goes viral, quickly attracts beef.
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    What’s Really Wrong With the GrammysThe elimination of 31 award categories has sparked protests. Here’s why the cuts make sense.
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    Gang Gang Dance’s Pop Science-FictionThe Manhattan band creates amalgamations of cultures, moods, and technologies that haven’t yet intermingled, but look and sound like they’ve existed for decades.
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    Tyler, the Creator: Visionary Rapper or Obnoxious Teenager?The second album from the ringleader of hip-hop crew Odd Future is fascinating, infuriating, brilliant, stupid, and more.
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