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Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music “The Tortured Poets Department,” the brand new album from Taylor Swift, could have the most important opening week of any album this yr. Critical response to the discharge has been blended, however fan curiosity has remained extraordinarily excessive. And questions on Swift’s music and motivations abound. […] More

Johnny Cash wasn’t all the time the stoic Man in Black. He additionally had a droll aspect, as revealed on this tune reconstituted from demos he recorded in 1993; a latter-day band, together with Marty Stuart on guitar, now fills out the unique tracks. In “Well Alright,” previewing “Songwriter,” an album due June 28, Cash […] More

Alicia Keys was solely 20 years outdated when her 2001 single “Fallin’” turned a global sensation, topping the Billboard charts, profitable a number of Grammys and serving to propel her to stardom. Now, greater than 20 years later, the music seems within the new Broadway musical “Hell’s Kitchen.” The present — which pulls from Keys’s […] More

A dissident rapper has been sentenced to dying in Iran after releasing music in assist of antigovernment demonstrations that rocked the nation in 2022, based on his lawyer, in a case that has prompted international condemnation. The rapper, Toomaj Salehi, 33, was probably the most outstanding voices amongst these arrested over nationwide protests in opposition […] More

Anthony Roth Costanzo, the celebrated American countertenor who’s one in all opera’s greatest stars, will lead Opera Philadelphia as its subsequent common director and president, the corporate introduced on Thursday. Costanzo, 41, whose tenure begins in June, will probably be a uncommon determine within the classical music trade: an artist in his prime who can […] More

This week’s episode of Popcast (Deluxe), the weekly tradition roundup present on YouTube hosted by Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli, consists of segments on: The new Taylor Swift album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” and Swift’s “imperial period” How the album addresses her rumored relationship with Matty Healy of the 1975 A doable face-off between this […] More

Mike Pinder, the final surviving founding member of the Moody Blues, whose progressive use of the Mellotron — a predecessor of the sampler — helped make the band a pioneer of progressive rock, died on Wednesday at his residence within the Sacramento space. He was 82. His son Dan confirmed the loss of life. He […] More

What if I instructed you that halfway by means of “Knuckles,” the brand new Paramount+ restricted collection primarily based on the character from the Sonic the Hedgehog universe, there’s a mini rock opera that includes vocals from Michael Bolton? If that piques your curiosity, then you can see many issues to take pleasure in on […] More

Michael Cuscuna, who introduced an artist’s stage of devotion and a scientist’s consideration to element to the work of exhuming and producing archival jazz recordings — work that vastly expanded entry to the buried treasures of American music’s previous — died on Saturday at his house in Stamford, Conn. He was 75. The singer and […] More

Last summer time, the author and producer Aron Eli Coleite was on vacation in Las Vegas together with his spouse when he obtained an pressing name from Nicole Clemens, the president of Paramount Television. Coleite was the showrunner on “The Spiderwick Chronicles,” a fantasy collection Paramount was producing for Disney+. The present had lately completed […] More

Chopin: Études Yunchan Lim, piano (Decca) The pianist Yunchan Lim, who just lately turned 20, debuted at Carnegie Hall in February with an old-school program: all 24 of Chopin’s études. His first album on the Decca label, taking part in those self same 24 devilishly troublesome items — 12 every in Op. 10 and 25 […] More

Why is it referred to as “Uncle Vanya”? All the person does is mope, mope tougher, attempt to do one thing apart from moping, fail miserably and mope some extra. You can’t blame him. Vanya has spent most of his practically 50 years scraping skinny revenue from a provincial property, and never even for himself. […] More