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    Country music has long been popular in Ireland. CMAT, whose real name is Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, brings the genre up-to-date.
    CreditEllius Grace for The New York Times

    CMAT Makes Country Music Sad, Smart and Strange

    The singer combines the genre’s enduring themes of heartbreak and self-destruction with camp humor and a distinctly Irish sense of the absurd.

     By Roisin Kiberd

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      They are not men, they are Devo: From left, Bob Casale, Gerald Casale, Bob Mothersbaugh and Mark Mothersbaugh performing in the late ’70s.
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      Devo’s Future Came True

      Half a century after Devo began singing about cultural De-Evolution, the visionary new wave band would have preferred to be wrong.

       By Jon Pareles

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      CreditMichelle Farsi for The New York Times

      Breakers Grapple With Hip-Hop’s Big Olympic Moment

      Largely left out of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, breaking will get its stage at the Paris Olympics. Its pioneers wonder if their art will translate into sport.

       By Jonathan Abrams

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    Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla leading the New York Philharmonic in her debut with the orchestra on Wednesday night.
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    In Her Debut, a Conductor Gets the Philharmonic (and Geffen Hall)

    The New York Philharmonic’s renovated hall is a proving ground for guests to balance the orchestra. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla did so with assurance.

     By Seth Colter Walls

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    For the U.S. and China, It Starts With Listening

    In tense times, we should use the arts to find common ground.

     By Carla Dirlikov Canales

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    Riccardo Muti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. He was the orchestra’s music director for 13 years.
    CreditTodd Rosenberg

    Riccardo Muti Takes a Victory Lap With the Chicago Symphony

    The orchestra’s former conductor — now its music director emeritus for life — opened Carnegie Hall’s season with a two-night engagement.

     By Oussama Zahr

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    Jaap van Zweden, right, leading members of the New York Philharmonic and Synergy Vocals in the premiere of Steve Reich’s “Jacob’s Ladder” on Thursday.
    CreditChris Lee

    Review: After Hovering, Steve Reich Brings Back the Pulse

    In “Jacob’s Ladder,” which premiered at the New York Philharmonic on Thursday, Reich’s signature chugging rhythms returned.

     By Zachary Woolfe

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    WCPE in North Carolina changed course and decided to broadcast the Met’s newer offerings this season after all.
    CreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times

    North Carolina Radio Station Won’t Ban Met Opera Broadcasts After All

    The station, which had called the Met’s newer operas unsuitable because of their “difficult music” and “adult themes and harsh language,” reversed course.

     By Jonathan Abrams and Javier C. Hernández

  1. Do We Need Album Reviews Anymore?

    A conversation about the history — and future — of album reviews in an increasingly fraught environment for music journalism and criticism.

     
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  6. Can Usher Turn America On Again (to R.&B.;)?

    Almost 20 years after his sexy, best-selling album “Confessions,” Usher is back with new music that could redefine the whole genre.

    By Danielle Amir Jackson and Malike Sidibe

     
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