The 50 Greatest Bassists
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From funk masters to prog prodigies and beyond, we count down the players who have shaped our idea of the low-end theory
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Album Reviews
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Run the Jewels
RTJ4
The agit-rap duo's fourth LP was recorded before America was ignited in protest, but it still feels perfectly apt for 2020 America
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Haim
Women in Music Pt. III
The ladies of the Valley meet 'Ladies of the Canyon' on their strongest, wisest album yet
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Bob Dylan
Rough and Rowdy Ways
At 79, he's still channeling cosmic American mysteries like no one else in music
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Chloe x Halle
Ungodly Hour
The R&B duo's second album is beautiful example of sisterly solidarity
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Columnists
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How the COVID-19 Bailout Gave Wall Street a No-Lose Casino
While ordinary Americans face record unemployment and loss, the COVID-19 bailout has saved the very rich
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A Practical Guide to Defunding the Police
Activists are demanding cities 'defund the police.' Here's what they mean
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American Plague
Racism, our untreated pre-existing condition, is killing both black people and the nation itself
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Kadir Nelson’s Inspiration for the July Cover of Rolling Stone
Culture"I want everyone in this painting — particularly the African American women and children — to know that they matter," artist says
TV Reviews
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Perry Mason
HBO's new iteration of the classic courtroom hero gives him an origin no one asked for and ignores some key character developments
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Love, Victor
A spin-off of the 2018 movie 'Love, Simon,' this Hulu series centers a Latinx teen on a bumpier path to self-acceptance
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Homecoming
The return of Amazon's psychological thriller features some new faces but a familiar storyline
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Central Park
Animated series from AppleTV+ is a joyful and infectious musical comedy with an all-star cast
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Movie Reviews
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Da 5 Bloods
Part war film and part heist thriller, the director's story of black veterans returning to old battlegrounds feels made for our current moment
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The King of Staten Island
The 'SNL' star and director Judd Apatow mine details from Davidson's real-life for this funny, moving tale of grieving and growing up
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Artemis Fowl
This bland Disney version of the popular pint-sized-evil-genius books loses the feel of the perversely pleasurable kids-lit series
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Tommaso
Writer-director Abel Ferrara and Willem Dafoe turn a semi-autobiographical character study of an ex-pat in Rome into a troubled fever dream
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