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- Taylor Swift’s 10th record, Midnights, was released this week. Critic Ann Powers wrote a review of the record, calling it Swift’s “most challenging album” — not because of a surprising new sound, but for the way she and producer Jack Antonoff push Swift’s voice in new directions, rethinking the sonic rhetoric of first-person storytelling and shaking off old habits. You can also hear a conversation about Midnights — and other great new albums out this week, including releases by iLe and Nick Hakim — on New Music Friday from All Songs Considered.
- In 2018, my colleague Tom Huizenga looked at the upcoming seasons from top U.S. orchestras to see how many were presenting the work of women composers. The numbers were staggeringly low: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra would present zero; the Cleveland Orchestra, one; and the New York Philharmonic, two. This week, Tom reappraised the situation. “Four years later, there's still work to be done,” he writes, “but the tide seems to be turning.”
- This week on The Limits With Jay Williams, hear a conversation with Fat Joe about what it was like to witness the birth of hip-hop and what he wants people to learn from his successes and failures.
- This week, our friends at JME Jacksonville Music Experience shared a video of poet and hip-hop artist Ebony Payne-English performing Kuongoza.
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| "How much does a memory weigh?" That question is central to the songs Leyla McCalla performed at the Tiny Desk, which come from her album Breaking the Thermometer — a record deeply immersed in the rhythms, sounds and history of Haiti. Also at the Tiny Desk this week: The effervescent R&B powerhouse Joyce Wrice delivered a set designed to make it difficult for anyone within earshot to keep still. |
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