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Music Pick: Yuja Wang

In many ways, Yuja Wang is the Jimi Hendrix of classical pianists. It’s not just that the Chinese pianist is fast — she is among the most dazzling speed demons ...
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Music Pick: Sudan Archives

“I’m too unique to kneel … There is a place that I call home, but it’s not where I am welcome,” Brittney Parks confides as Sudan Archives on the aptly titled “C...
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Music Pick: Bishop Briggs

“You gotta get bruised before you get mad,” Bishop Briggs insists on her new version of “Champion,” recorded with Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello. “Nobod...
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Music Pick: The Last

Back in August, music editor Brett Callwood interviewed bandleader Joe Nolte about The Last’s 40-year career as a South Bay band who have influenced both punk a...
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Music Pick: Miss June

“I wanna be your best girl/I wanna be the one that takes down the world,” Annabel Liddell declares amid the surging punk power chords of “Best Girl,” from Miss ...
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Music Pick: Kat Leon

Kat Leon is best known as the lead singer of Holy Wars, a local band who manufacture a dark, heavily rocking sound on such quintessentially sordid tracks as “We...
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Music Pick: Lucy Dacus

“I’ll be your historian, and you’ll be mine/And I’ll fill pages of scribbled ink, hoping the words carry meaning,” Lucy Dacus promises on “Historians,” from her...
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Music Pick: Nellie McKay

In Ethan Coen’s recent theater piece A Play Is a Poem, the five mostly lighthearted one-act plays were linked by short songs written and performed by the madly ...