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A generation of contemporary artists are drawing on the lessons of the past to reimagine the classic bolero. Left to right: Olga Guillot, La Lupe, and Doris Anahí

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Reimagined for a new era, boleros become songs of gendered rebellion

8:50am August 03, 2022

by Isabelia Herrera

A new wave of artists are reimagining the classic bolero, rising above its gendered tropes and sharpening its quietly feminist rebellion for the contemporary moment.

A team of volunteers with an Ohio-based nonprofit handed out 2,500 doses of a nasal spray version of naloxone, an overdose reversal drug, at this year's Bonnaroo music festival.

Overdose reversal drugs gain support at music festivals, but not fentanyl test strips

6:24am August 03, 2022

by Blake Farmer

Festival promoters are allowing lifesaving medication as fentanyl deaths surge, but volunteers are often left to distribute it, and more controversial forms of harm reduction aren't openly allowed.

A group of Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn is reviving the golden age of cantorial music

5:11am August 03, 2022

by Jon Kalish

Musician Jeremiah Lockwood hopes to introduce the world to a new music scene bubbling in Brooklyn.

Madison Cunningham performs a Tiny Desk concert.

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Madison Cunningham: Tiny Desk Concert

5:00am August 03, 2022

by Jewly Hight

The singer-songwriter performs a selection of tracks from her forthcoming album, Revealer, that are alive with new sensations.

Katie Crutchfield (left) and Jess Williamson of Plains.

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Plains, 'Problem With It'

5:02pm August 02, 2022

by Brian Burns

The first single from a new collaboration between songwriters Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee and Jess Williamson is a stunner of a breakup song, best played singing along at top volume.

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Nick Leng, 'Morning / Midnight'

11:18am August 02, 2022

by Nisha Venkat

Leng sees deep distress and sings through it, turning heartbreak into a cathartic climax.

Beyoncé performs during the Oscars on March 27 in Los Angeles.

Beyoncé will change a lyric in her latest album after accusations of ableism

7:45am August 02, 2022

by Amina Kilpatrick

Beyoncé's publicist confirmed that the artist will replace an offensive lyric from a song in her latest album, Renaissance.

Music Midtown pulls the plug over Georgia's gun laws, highlighting a legal gray area

6:39pm August 01, 2022

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Music Midtown canceled the annual festival at Piedmont Park because of legal concerns over the organizers' ability to ban guns during the two-day event.

Renaissance, Beyoncé's seventh full-length solo album, mines a liberating history of dance music, from Donna Summer-sampling disco to modern Chicago house.

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Revolutionary Fun: Why we can't stop talking about Beyoncé's 'Renaissance'

5:11pm August 01, 2022

The era-defining star's seventh album sparks a conversation about the infinite possibilities of dance music, the difference between fun and pleasure and why disco is always political.

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Cakes Da Killa, 'Drugs Du Jour'

12:11pm August 01, 2022

by Gabby Bulgarelli

At the forefront of New York's house-rap scene since 2011, the introspective Cakes toes the line between bounce and thought.