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As the once-ubiquitous pop producer accused of abuse by Kesha continues his court battle against her, the appealing new voice of Kim Petras sells his songs.
“There’s something therapeutic in looking at the apocalypse and laughing,” Colin Meloy says of the band’s I’ll Be Your Girl.
The experimental pop singer Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards intensifies her politics and dance grooves for i can feel you creep into my private life.
Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber’s followers, and the One Direction diaspora succeeded with PG, easy-listening pop.
Members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy, and Cypress Hill team up for political rock that seems immediately obsolete.
If you follow (or have heard of) the Brazilian experimental-percussion group Uakti, you probably are already aware that they…
There is a new contender for Greatest Version of World’s Greatest Song: Thanks to reader A.C. in…
The results are in. I’ll get to them shortly. First, the standards of judging I’ve found myself applying as I’ve…
In addition to the ~20 versions in the other dispatches shown further down on this page, here are a few…
There’s nothing quite like travel, events, the flu/pellagra, and learning you’re the object of an IRS identity-theft…
It has been unexpectedly rewarding to raise the topic of The Greatest Song Ever™, Águas de Março by Antonio Carlos…
Following an item this week on the world’s greatest song, or one of them, some followup discussion on the song…
OK, there are lots of great songs. But for me this one has always been in the very first tier,…
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What America's most esteemed choreographer and Korea's biggest celebrity have in common.
The surprising connections between a musical genius of the 1960s and a struggling politician of the 2010s.
Which of today's politicians does the great Brazilian composer really bring to mind?
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