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Peering behind the mystique of rock ’n’ roll has plain voyeuristic enchantment. So there may be an instantaneous thrill to seeing the mahogany-paneled management room and glassed-in sound sales space that fill the Golden Theater stage, the place “Stereophonic” opened on Friday. But David Adjmi’s astonishing new play, with songs by the previous Arcade Fire […] More

When Taylor Swift launched “The Tortured Poets Department,” on Friday at midnight, her fan base rapidly set to work decoding the album, in search of layers of that means and perception into Ms. Swift’s life. Of course, that features the pop singer’s romantic historical past. Like a lot of her previous works, the songs on […] More

“I like you, it’s ruining my life,” Taylor Swift and a subdued Post Malone sing to one another, filled with breathy remorse, in “Fortnight,” the tune that opens Swift’s new double album, “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.” They’re each obsessing over a short however unforgettable affair, despite the fact that each of the tune’s […] More

Fans of Taylor Swift typically research up for a brand new album, revisiting the singer’s older works to arrange to research lyrics and track titles for secret messages and meanings. “The Tortured Poets Department” is getting a lot the identical therapy, and maybe no group of listeners was higher ready than the scholars at Harvard […] More

Dear listeners, Perhaps you might have heard that Taylor Swift has a brand new album out at this time — only a wild guess! — and that it’s referred to as “The Tortured Poets Department.” That title alone generated chatter earlier than anybody had heard a word, and it obtained me occupied with a few […] More

Swift doesn’t identify names, however she drops loads of boldfaced clues about exiting a long-term cross-cultural relationship that has grown chilly (the wrenching “So Long, London”), briefly taking over with a tattooed unhealthy boy who raises the hackles of the extra judgmental folks in her life (the wild-eyed “But Daddy I Love Him”) and beginning […] More

Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the British firm that helped kick-start the music business’s rush for catalog offers — buying tens of hundreds of songs by Justin Bieber, Neil Young, Shakira and others — however that has seen its share worth plummet has reached a tentative deal to promote itself to Concord, a serious impartial music firm, […] More

Taylor Swift was already probably the most ubiquitous pop star within the galaxy, her presence dominating the music charts, the live performance calendar, the Super Bowl, the Grammys. Then it got here time for her to advertise a brand new album. In the times main as much as the discharge of “The Tortured Poets Department” […] More

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the earlier evening’s highlights that permits you to sleep — and lets us receives a commission to look at comedy. Here are the 50 greatest films on Netflix proper now. Not Right Enough The Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is dealing with important backlash […] More

Peter Sellars needed to know extra. He was in San Francisco just a few years in the past, attending a efficiency of “The No One’s Rose,” a fascinatingly idiosyncratic work of music theater that featured a few of his favourite artists, from the American Modern Opera Company, and a rating by the younger composer Matthew […] More

The New York Philharmonic, which has been going through an uproar since a current journal article detailed allegations of misconduct towards two gamers it tried and failed to fireside in 2018, stated on Thursday that it was commissioning an out of doors investigation into its tradition. Gary Ginstling, the Philharmonic’s president and chief government, stated […] More

When “The Jinx” premiered in 2015, it was one of many pillars of the brand new true-crime wave — high-end however sufficiently lurid, with soap-opera twists but additionally documentary legitimacy. In the absence of prison justice, perhaps leisure justice might suffice. Now the director Andrew Jarecki is again with “The Jinx — Part Two,” six […] More