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Is Kendrick Lamar the Modern Verdi?

Giuseppe Verdi was an Italian opera composer born in the 19th century. Kendrick Lamar is a Pulitzer-prize-winning rap artist from Compton. At first glance, these two artists have nothing in common. However, when their music is closely examined, we can find a number of similarities between these two musical geniuses. This audio piece explores the commonalities between Verdi's Rigoletto and Kendrick's DAMN....
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Xiuhtezcatl Martinez: Redefining age and activism

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez has spent nearly his whole life fighting for the environment, well 67% of it to be exact. That’s an easy calculation to make because Martinez is only 18 years old. Known professionally as an indigenous climate change activist, hip hop artist, writer, and public speaker, Martinez began making a name for himself at age six, when he started speaking out at environmental rallies in his hometown of Boulder, CO. In the intervening years, he seems to have been working as fast as he can checking off what, for many, would be bucket-list items....
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K-Pop is Branching Out from Korea

If you've been confused by the increase of boy and girl groups dancing, singing, and speaking Korean on your social media, let us help catch you up! South Korea’s popular music industry, known worldwide as K-Pop (Korean pop), is breaking records on the Billboard charts.  American fans are listening to K-Pop even though they don't speak the language....
CULTUREMUSIC

Voyagers

Jenny Lewis has dropped her trail mix. She’s standing in front of me at the Whole Foods 365 in Silver Lake, wearing a wide-brimmed rodeo hat, bell bottoms, and a rusty red-colored suede jacket with arm fringe that runs all the way down to her thigh. I cannot see her face, but I am well aware that it is indeed Jenny Lewis....
Los AngelesMUSIC

An Evening at The Peppermint Club with Rainsford

Rainey Qualley is many things: Andie MacDowell’s oldest daughter, part time actress-slash-model, an admitted introvert. She’s even dabbled in directing this year, alongside her younger sister, Margaret (whom you may know from The Leftovers or the Sundance darling, Novitiate) on the music video for her song, “Rendezvous”. But on this mid-December Tuesday evening, she’s Rainsford, a genre-bending siren about to take the stage for her first public performance....
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