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Q&A with Friday Night Rock guest, rising rap artist Saba
By Jacob Meister | April 25, 2017This past Friday, April 21, Friday Night Rock brought rapper Saba to perform at Sarner Underground.
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Drake’s ‘More Life’ boasts new sound, lacks originality
By Jacob Meister | March 30, 2017“More Life. More time with family and friends. More Life. I’ve still got vibrations to send.
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Review: “Future” stuck in the past
By Jacob Meister | February 23, 2017The beginning of 2017’s music landscape has been uncontestably dominated by rap artists from a city that has recently become a key niche of American popular culture: Atlanta, Georgia.
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Despite Chance the Rapper’s victory, Grammys still disappoints
By Jacob Meister | February 14, 2017The 2017 Grammy Awards offered a surprising improvement on the usual tame, predetermined nature of televised award shows, but the awards themselves ultimately failed to fulfill the promise of the ambitious live performances.
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Review: Migos: the modern, mainstream kings of “Culture”
By Jacob Meister | February 2, 2017Jacob Meister reviews Migos' album "Culture," which was released Jan. 27.
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“Run the Jewels 3”: An ode to a political revolution
By Jacob Meister | January 24, 2017The album, released in late December 2016, is arguably the group’s most revolutionary and most powerful work to date.
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Béla Pintér play ‘Our Secrets’ blends sexual and political taboo
By Jacob Meister | January 17, 2017This past weekend, two massive rotating wheels, mounted on a charcoal grey backdrop to imitate simultaneously a harmless record player and a sinister recording device, filled the Moore Theater stage at the Hopkins Center for the Arts.
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2016’s television in review: ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘Westworld,’ more
By Jacob Meister | January 10, 2017It felt like America could not go one week in 2016 without either a national tragedy or national embarrassment.