How Do You Preserve a Vanishing Music Scene?

How Do You Preserve a Vanishing Music Scene?

Memories fade. Documentation disappears. Scenes vanish. When you’re busy creating a world, you don’t always think about how to preserve it for history. So old fliers and magazines get brittle and crumble, photos get lost, publications go out of business and websites get deleted. It falls to archivists — sometimes …

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RZA Talks About Wu-Tang Clan’s Final Chamber Tour

RZA Talks About Wu-Tang Clan’s Final Chamber Tour

Few groups have had more impact on the shape and evolution of hip-hop than Wu-Tang Clan, the Staten Island supergroup that helped define the sound of 1990s New York rap and transform the industry. And yet seeing Wu-Tang Clan perform a full-length concert in the flesh — all of the …

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Muni Long, Victoria Monét and Other Women Reinventing R&B

Muni Long, Victoria Monét and Other Women Reinventing R&B

To accompany this article, Adam Bradley created a playlist of the songs that define R&B’s new era. THE R&B SINGER-SONGWRITER Muni Long has a voice that people say could sing the dictionary and they’d still listen. In 2007, as a teen growing up in Gifford, Fla., she put that claim …

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