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Jayson Greene’s column examines how certain sounds—a snare crack, a synth blob, a ghostly string sample—linger in our minds and lives.

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Overtones

Live From the Uncanny Valley: How AI Tools Are Turning Words Into Music

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Everything Is Interpolated: Inside Music’s Nostalgia-Industrial Complex 

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The Rise of Dissociation Music

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Stevie Wonder and His Dream Machines

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What Can Music Do During Climate Collapse?

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How Leonard Cohen Haunted the Trump Era

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The Summer of Quarantine Sex Jams

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An Ode to Live Music in a Time of Silence

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What Music Can Never Do

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How Do We Live With Music Made by Problematic Artists?

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Are We Having Fun Yet? On Pop’s Morose New Normal

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Dancing on My Own, Together: Capturing That Robyn Feeling

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Learning to Love Post Malone

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Life, Death, and John Prine

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How Frank Ocean Triumphs Without Even Trying

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The Unlikely Resurgence of Rap Rock

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Can Music Heal Trauma? Exploring the Therapeutic Powers of Sound

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Guitars? Exploring the Future of Musical A.I.

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Is Rihanna the Most Influential Pop Singer of the Past Decade?

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Chaos Theory: The Glorious Unpredictability of Young Thug

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The Coldest Story Ever Told: The Influence of Kanye West’s 808s & Heartbreak

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The Compton Sessions: How Dr. Dre Created His Comeback

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Evolve With the Flow: How Drake and Kendrick Found Their Voices

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Notes You Never Hear: The Metaphysical Loneliness of George Harrison

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Turn Down for What

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Mozart Makes You Smarter… and Other Dubious Musical Theories

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Beyond the Yellow Brick Road

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Word Is Bond: Black Hippy and the Power of Repetition

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String Theory

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Shaking Through: Music and Mania