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Trap Rap Has Been Around for a Minute Now – So Why Does It Keep Working?
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Where Have All the V Chords Gone? The Decline of ‘Functional’ Harmony in Pop
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8 Ways to Perform with a Backing Track (and Still Engage Your Audience)
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Unsung: In Praise of Rap’s Studio Musicians
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These Four Classic Covers Can Tell Us Everything About What Makes Great Album Art
Four albums top my all-time favorite records list. They’re some of my favorite albums musically,…
How Jazz Is Secretly Rewriting Its Own Future in Camouflage
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How Kendrick Lamar Achieves Mainstream Appeal with a Complex, Innovative Approach
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President Obama’s Hit Playlist and Using Music to Cope with the Madness of Politics
For the last three months I’ve been doing something I rarely do: watching the news.…
5 Times Artists Have Changed the World
We often forget when we’re bobbing our head to a song we love or admiring…