Mark Kennedy

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

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December 17, 2018 at 10:49 p.m.

Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Murray Lerner, who captured Bob Dylan going electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and preserved legendary music acts like Jimi Hendrix and Leonard Cohen forever on...

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June 5, 2018 at 7:30 a.m.

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June 5, 2018 at 10:24 p.m.

Don't believe the title of Ed Sheeran's new album. He doesn't want to divide. His math this time is all about compiling, accumulating. On "Divide," the British singer-songwriter shoots out...

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June 12, 2018 at 7:02 a.m.

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June 9, 2018 at 5:19 a.m.

Lin-Manuel Miranda's revolutionary stage musical "Hamilton" has won a Grammy, a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation and now another honor — one of the largest prizes given for dramatic...

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