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Nitsuh Abebe

August 29, 2011 |
Ethnic Humor

Das Racist is done answering questions.

August 22, 2011 | Feature
Slow Jams for the Otherwise Arty

The quirky mash-up of indie musicians and R&B style.

August 22, 2011 | Feature
PBR&B Ten Pack

A primer of genre-bender records combining R&B with an indie affect.

August 1, 2011 | The Book Review
Past Due

Simon Reynolds’s Retromania looks back at a pop culture that has, for years now, done nothing but look back.

July 18, 2011 | Feature
We Must Be Superstars

In defense of pop (and maybe narcissism, too).

June 27, 2011 | The Pop Music Review
Beyoncé Settles Down

Her latest album, 4, is the aural equivalent of a charming white picket fence in the suburbs.

May 30, 2011 | The Pop Music Review
Where’s the Beef?

The flimsy fury of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way.

May 23, 2011 | Intelligencer
Flack Is Wack

How scolds encourage immoral rhymes.

March 28, 2011 | The Pop Music Review
Easy Listening

The Strokes’ first album in five years says more about cooperation than creativity.

February 21, 2011 | The Pop Music Review
Lady England

PJ Harvey addresses her country’s history of war with mordant wit and a beat you can (almost) dance to.