Noname’s Ambivalent, Triumphant Comeback | The New Yorker

[ad_1] “If I could do this all the time, I would,” Fatimah Nyeema Warner, the thirty-one-year-old rapper who performs as Noname, said. She was standing backstage at Herbert Von King Park, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where she had just headlined a free summer concert. Light rain had stopped just in time for her to take the stage… Continue reading Noname’s Ambivalent, Triumphant Comeback | The New Yorker

‘Reinventing Elvis: The ’68 Comeback’ review: A close look at Presley’s evolution

[ad_1] Television has been the arena for electrifying watershed musical performances — the Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” Queen at Live Aid, Tony Bennett’s “MTV Unplugged” — that become the stuff of legend: signal moments that are knitted into our understanding of an artist’s life. But in the long history of the medium, there… Continue reading ‘Reinventing Elvis: The ’68 Comeback’ review: A close look at Presley’s evolution