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For this year’s Icons & Influences issue, we asked 10 artists to pay tribute to the women who have shaped their sound, provided an example, and inspired them to break down barriers. Peggy Seeger is an accomplished artist in her own right, following an unconventional path that has inspired Rhiannon …

It’s evening at Miss Lily’s 7A Cafe in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and Shenseea is trying to define herself. “Being in a box is no fun,” the Jamaican dancehall singer says. “Shenseea is Shenseea’s biggest critic.” Just then, the chef comes over to personally check on her dinner. “We need …

No one likes the feeling of stagnation. A character reaches his breaking point in David Kushner’s “Miserable Man,” an acoustic ballad from January that’s as sparse as a one-horse town. “Let’s pack our stuff now and run away,” the narrator implores, though in truth it sounds like he can barely …

The stories we tell our children help them see the scale of their potential. The most heartbreaking scenes from the final installment of the Netflix documentary jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy illuminate the fact. Kanye’s mother, the late scholar and activist Donda West, believed in her son’s dreams with no reservation. …

It took G. Moore roughly 15 minutes to make the song that upended his life. Last July, he Googled a “SoFaygo type beat” (in honor of one of his favorite rappers) and picked an instrumental full of synths that waft upwards like bubbles blown by a light breeze. While recording …

Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett is bringing his Genesis Revisited tour back on the road this month. The show features a complete performance of the group’s 1977 live album Seconds Out along with scattered tunes from his solo career. A handful of gigs originally postponed from 2020 due to the …

The guitars and effects pedals were left behind, but Kyrylo Brener had no choice. When Russia invaded his home country, Ukraine, the guitarist, who plays in the power trio Kat, grabbed essentials like clothes and water and left his native city of Kharkiv, driving west with his wife. Talking by …

Joshua Bassett isn’t as over his ex as he thought he was. And he’s OK admitting that. On his brand-new song “Doppelgänger,” Bassett sings about seeing his former lover’s lookalike in public as he continues to long for a lost love. He’s done keeping his guard up, and he’s a …

At the height of the pandemic, when clubs were closed and social gatherings seemed precarious and people were growing increasingly restless at home, the 27-year-old artist Raveena Aurora dragged a mirror out into her living room. She’d stand in front of it and dance almost every day, something that took …

Singer-songwriter Nûdem Durak was already two years into her 19-year prison sentence when one of the few threads that connected her to freedom was cut. Before her 2015 incarceration, Durak was living in Cizre, Turkey, singing songs in both Turkish and her ethnically native tongue, Kurdish. She was subsequently accused …