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Winding down the 4th of July weekend with new Beach House, live performances from Glastonbury and more

Todd Terje: Inspector Norse Glastonbury 2015 came and went, with performances from Jamie xx, Hot Chip, Mark Ronson, Caribou, Jessie Ware, Mary J. Blige to Kanye West—and even a cameo from the Dalai Lama—to save in the archives for a long time. One of the more memorable live performances came from Norwegian producer Todd Terje who brought his house/disco album to life with a full …

Interview: The Black Lips on Stage Presence

Talking with the band before their Festival d'été de Québec performance

It’s difficult to affix a genre to the type of music made by the Black Lips. There are elements of punk and garage rock; there’s potency and power—and an immediacy. But at the core, a lot of their tracks are just plain fun. While it may be tricky to place them in a musical box, there’s one thing that’s very easy to understand about the …

Dissecting Song Lyrics Through a Feminist Filter

Combining music, film and commentary, British-Jamaican filmmaker Cecile Emeke explores the strong emotional impact—whether good or bad—song lyrics can create in her new docu-series “Lines.” “Sometimes it’s a line that you’ve heard a hundred times and it’s only on the 101st time that it clicked and meant something to you, or sometimes it’s a line that grabs your attention right away,” she explains. For the …