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Rapper’s delight.

“What we do is more like Ferrari or Rolls-Royce—really small-batch stuff, but really good.”

There was even a surprise wedding!

“We’re using the orchestra as the band. I think of it like, Imagine Joshua Bell sings his own songs.”

May we interest you in a concierge robot?

Accommodations in this quasi-communal concept were perfected at a sister hotel in Brooklyn.

“We were so frugal, we would manually roll the fax toner back to use what portions of it had not impressed on paper yet.”

The Darlingtons hit all the audiophile classics with recipes to accompany 70 albums.

Jason Isbell: as bulletproof as concerts get.

“Looks like a great lineup, just needs more Buffett.”

Gregory Porter’s rich, sturdy baritone is filed under jazz in large part because singers have to be called something; those “genre” fields don’t fill themselves out, people. It’s true that Porter won exceedingly deserved jazz vocal Grammys for 2017’s Take Me to the Alley and 2014’s Liquid Spirit (and odds are pretty good on a […]

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On Saturday evening, on the final leg of this year’s Lotus World Music & Arts Festival, 26 artists representing about 20 different countries performed their final shows for the thousands of people who took to the streets of downtown Bloomington. Brandishing the hashtag #MusicUnites, this event’s mission was to bring people from all walks of […]

“I like where we’re at now, so I don’t see a point in revisiting Margot.”

“I like where we’re at now, so I don’t see a point in revisiting Margot.”