Megan Anderson

Certain cities produce music the way alleyways produce rumors. New York has always excelled at it.

There was a moment in 1998 when anticipation felt less like marketing and more like the first day of a class everyone knew would matter.

Fame has a way of sanding artists down to their most presentable edges. By the time Beyoncé stepped into Lemonade , she had already scaled the

A record like What's Going On doesn't kick the door in. It opens it just enough for you to notice the room has changed.

Affiliations & Notes a Division of Intramural Research, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA b NeoImmuneTech, Inc., Rockville, MD, USA

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Some artists announce themselves. Howlin' Wolf sounded like something already in motion, low and distant at first, until you realized it was thunder walking on two legs.

You can hear the room change on Let It Bleed . The laughter's thinner, the shadows stretch longer, and nobody's quite sure how things got this far

Most bands spend their second album figuring out what just happened. Led Zeppelin spent theirs seeing how much farther they could push it.

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