Durand Jones & the Indications’ new single “The Way That I Do” reaches back several decades to capture the feeling of a precise period in popular music history, the years in the late Seventies and early Eighties when the popular R&B vocal ensembles turned toward the locomotion of disco and …
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Dawn Richard, Second Line R&B artist Dawn Richard has taken a winding path through her nearly 20-year career. Now, she finds herself on the North Carolina indie-rock label Merge with her sixth LP,Second Line. It may be an unexpected place for her, but the record feels like a culmination of …
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Erika de Casier spent a few weeks recently holed up in a century-old house on a small island off the coast of Denmark, called Fanø. She was there with a group of other musicians and artists who’d all decided to isolate together while they worked on various projects — something …
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Usher dances his way through an opulent house party in the video for “Don’t Waste My Time,” the star’s new collaboration with Ella Mai. Snoop Dogg, the singer-songwriter Eric Bellinger, and the actor Evan Ross all make cameos in the clip, which is cheerful, frothy and carefree, a jarring reminder …
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