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Concert Review: The Many Charms of Pianist Bill Charlap

January 28, 2025
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Put Bill Charlap in that camp of brilliant jazz originals who have plied their trade by playing songs by other people and making them definitively their own.

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Author Interview: Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian on His First Novel, “Nobody’s Empire”

January 27, 2025
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With 12 studio albums and myriad EPs to his band’s credit, Stuart Murdoch can now boast, not that he’s the type to do so, of being a published novelist.

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Rock Concert Preview: Chuck Prophet’s “Wake the Dead” — Singing of Mortality

January 26, 2025
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Predictably, Chuck Prophet’s brand of rustic rock ’n’ roll gets a bit of a makeover by the members of the Cumbia band ¿Qiensave? But let me reassure you — this is another gem of a Prophet album.

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Classical Album Review: Music by Edward MacDowell

January 25, 2025
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Volume 1 in a new series from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and John Wilson whets the appetite for more music by the late-19th-century American composer Edward MacDowell.

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Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group’s “The Look of Love” — Always Something There to Remind Me

January 25, 2025
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There’s something gleefully retro about his hour-plus-long jukebox.

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Poetry Review: Joanna Fuhrman’s “Data Mind” — The Algorithm That Ate America

January 25, 2025
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“Data Mind” contains a spiritual blessing — it teaches us how to praise life in a universe that is so broken it is determined to erase our humanity.

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Rock Album Review: Iggy Pop at the Montreux Jazz Festival — Raw Power, Reanimated

January 24, 2025
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Bottom line: “Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 2023” captures the manic, mercurial energy that transformed the man born James Osterberg into the legend that is Iggy Pop.

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Arts Remembrance: The Voice of Love — On David Lynch’s Empathy

January 24, 2025
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For all the accusations David Lynch faced over the supposed emotional and ironic detachment of work, his films are wellsprings of love for their subjects.

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Musician Interview: Guitarist Chris Dileso and Bassist Kyle Paradis of Oh The Humanity! on “Ground to Dust”

January 24, 2025
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“There are no weak spots; I feel happy and confident with how every song came out.”

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Classical Album Review: Pianist Daniil Trifonov’s Brilliant and Stylish “My American Story – North”

January 23, 2025
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The keyboard wizard’s latest album both continues a trend of expansive projects that take the long view and celebrates the decade-plus the virtuoso has resided in the United States. It is a blast.

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