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Duane Eddy, who broke new floor in pop music within the Nineteen Fifties with a reverberant, staccato fashion of guitar taking part in that turned generally known as twang, died on Tuesday in Franklin, Tenn. He was 86. The explanation for his loss of life, in a hospital, was problems of most cancers, stated his […] More

Frank Wakefield, an modern bluegrass mandolinist whose sweeping musicality led to collaborations with the New York Philharmonic and Jerry Garcia, and whose distinctive voicings and method expanded the parameters of his instrument, died on Friday at his residence in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. He was 89. Marsha Sprintz, his companion of 47 years, mentioned the trigger […] More

Not lots of Lincoln Center Theater exhibits name for setting the preperformance temper with the Grateful Dead, however when “Uncle John’s Band” came to visit the audio system the opposite night earlier than the Bengsons took the stage, it was such a great match for his or her crunchy, mellow, kindhearted, folk-rock vibe that I […] More

Hayes Campbell, the dreamy protagonist of the brand new rom-com “The Idea of You,” has a bit in widespread with the mega pop star Harry Styles: In the film, Hayes, performed by Nicholas Galitzine, is a member of August Moon, a boy band with tons of very ardent teen and tween lady followers. Styles was […] More

In the brand new collection “Dark Matter,” a physics professor (Joel Edgerton) is kidnapped off the streets of Chicago and changed by another model of himself. This model, as an alternative of toiling away instructing distracted undergrads, is a prize-winning scientist who, amongst his numerous accomplishments, has invented a field that may superposition individuals into […] More

Oof. Do you see? Do you see your response? Me and my brother, we was once in a author’s room. We’ve at all times been edgy with our humor. So when individuals have that response, like, Oh, God, we used to name that “getting on a whitey bike.” Brothers would crack up at that, however […] More

Jerry Seinfeld grew to become a mic-cradling, cereal-eating, “did-you-ever-notice”-ing avatar of American Jewish life with a openly shrugging persona: a merry indifference to weighty materials as a comic and in his megahit TV present about nothing, as petty and apolitical as he appeared to be. Now — off-camera, at the very least — Mr. Seinfeld […] More

Magnus Bormark, a longtime rock guitarist in Norway, mentioned his band had gotten used to releasing music with little publicity. So nothing ready him for the onslaught of consideration because the band, Gåte, was chosen to signify Norway at this 12 months’s Eurovision Song Contest. The telephones haven’t stopped ringing, Bormark mentioned — not simply […] More

It won’t come as a shock that Vanessa Williams, within the music video for her new single, “Legs (Keep Dancing),” might be seen exhibiting off her legs. Some could keep in mind her exhibiting off much more in a 1984 difficulty of Penthouse, that, after being revealed, led Ms. Williams to develop into the primary […] More

Romance is a blast on Dua Lipa’s third album, “Radical Optimism.” It’s a thumping, reverberating, woofer-rattling, arena-scale sensation, one thing to exult in even when it doesn’t all the time go proper. On Lipa’s first two albums, she juxtaposed flirtations and breakups with ideas about energy and gender. “I do know you ain’t used to […] More

Beefs make rappers productive. Earlier this week, Kendrick Lamar dropped a brand new salvo in his just lately rekindled feud with Drake: a six-minute, multipart rejoinder to Drake’s current “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle.” It begins with Lamar rapping rapidly however calmly over a smooth-jazz backdrop, taunting, “I make music that electrify ’em, you […] More

▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube 3. Spoon: “I Turn My Camera On” “Challengers” volleys backwards and forwards from latest previous to current so dizzyingly that typically the musical cues are the simplest strategy to bear in mind if we’re in 2006 or 2019. This Spoon observe, from the 2005 album “Gimme Fiction,” […] More