“Biggie. Tupac. DMX. We pay tribute to 63 stars who died too young.”
music
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What My Musical Instruments Have Taught Me
“When music made collaboratively with other musicians goes right, I feel a budding, rising warmth and comfort. Is this my mother smiling on me?”
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The Final Dead Shows: Part One
“Everyone is dancing a little bit, bobbing, but really they are having an extended, possibly endless, interior experience.”
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The Stradivarius Murders
“Police said four very valuable violins went missing after a collector and his daughter were killed. Then a lot of stories began to unravel.”
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The Epic Return of Lucinda Williams
“Having once left an abusive relationship, Van Etten hears in Williams’s lyrics the strength of a woman who refused to let darkness define or diminish her.”
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The Dave Matthews Guide to Living and Dying
“Now 56, Matthews has been singing about mortality for a long time, and he’s confronting its specter in new and surprising ways.”
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Lost Ones
“Sometimes you encounter a song that will not fade away, though you never hear it again.”
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Girl Genius
She will grow up and leave me and yet never leave me; she will be mine forever, a being I shaped.