Twenty years ago this month, after rising to indie celebrity with a pair of well-received albums in quick succession, the Decemberists released The Tain, an EP comprising one nearly 19-minute song split into five movements. “The Tain” leaned hard into the literary folk-rock band’s prog-rock tendencies, foregrounding...

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How much do you know about Michel Pagliaro, a fairly obscure Montreal musician who released some hard-rockin’ power-pop ragers in the early ’70s? It’s fine if you don’t know anything at all. I didn’t. The people behind the New York indie label Outer Battery Records are big fans, and they&#821...

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Madonna rose to pop icon status in the 1980s, and Kylie Minogue was just a few years behind her on that trajectory. But the two stars had never performed together until last night. When Madonna’s Celebration Tour rolled into the Kia Forum in Inglewood, CA, Minogue joined her onstage. The pair did sort of a trailerized cover of Gloria G...