Daily Newsletter, July 16, 2024

Emma Stone refuses to quit, Lana Del Rey’s guitar, Jewish obstetricians, and (one of) Dickie Betts’s last words. 1. Pet Shop Boys, Nonetheless (Warner Records). Some years ago I took part in a pop festival in Málaga, Spain. I was on a small panel, but it was a huge operation; on the outdoor stage the Pet Shop Boys were headlining. It didn’t make sense to me, the night, the fireworks, the overloaded sound system. I could only picture the Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant singing and Chris Lowe on his synthesizers, never mind how many other people might be alongside of them, it had to be just those two, not on a stage but in a movie, a cabaret scene, at the back of a bar—put Lowe at a piano and they’d fit right into

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Ray Charles' “America the Beautiful” hits the top 10 on a pair of Billboard charts this week, 20 years after the piano player's death.

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That speculation comes from an essay on what he calls 'generative music,' which is automatically produced by digital systems in accordance with human-set rules and preferences: 'like live music, it is always different.

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We present a playlist of the sounds behind Stereolab, including classic songs by The Velvet Underground, Cabaret Voltaire, CAN, Yoko Ono, and more.