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Nine Inch Nails Faces the Pandemic With Hope, Despair and Noise
Jon Pareles//39 views/1 comments
Album Review On a pair of free albums, “Ghosts V: Together” and “Ghosts VI: Locusts,” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s suspenseful sounds feel very much of the m...
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With Stars at Home, a Coronavirus Pop Benefit Scales Down
Jon Pareles//35 views
Critic’s Notebook Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey, Billie Eilish, Camila Cabello and Sam Smith performed remotely to raise money for organizations helping with Covid-...
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Jessie Reyez Is Yelling and Loving at the Same Time
Jon Pareles//47 views/2 comments
The 28-year-old musician’s debut album “Before Love Came to Kill Us” is meant to motivate people to think about their mortality. Now she’s releasing it during a...
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Manu Dibango, Soulful Ambassador of African Music, Dies at 86
Jon Pareles//30 views
those we’ve lost His 1972 hit “Soul Makossa” arrived at the dawn of the disco era and made its way to dance floors across the United States, Europe and Africa. ...
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Jeremy Marre, Documentarian of World Music, Is Dead at 76
Jon Pareles//38 views/1 comments
With a minimal camera and sound crew, Mr. Marre traveled the world to film music and musicians on home turf that was often gritty and unglamorous. Jeremy Marre,...
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Disconcerted: A Music Critic’s Empty Nights
Jon Pareles//31 views
Critic’s Notebook Making and hearing music in public is inherently social, and the mysterious alchemy of a live show — of sharing the same vibrating air — can’t...