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Regional Sales-Rep Rock, Sleazy Synth-Pop That Boings
Plus dancefloor-warping reggaetón filled with escándalo and a particularly sticky beat tape
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Music Is Free Speech
How artists are fighting back against the powerful forces trying to silence them.
Music for Real Bitches in a Fake-Ass World
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The Next Great Folk Singer-Songwriter
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How Lincka Wrote the Three-Year-Old Song That Became the Anthem of Anti-ICE Protests
In her first interview since her 2022 song found a viral second life as a protest soundtrack, the Oklahoma City artist says “this was inevitable.”
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