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Phoebe Bridgers has released her annual holiday cover — this time with the help of her boygenius bandmates. This year’s choice is “The Parting Glass” — a Scottish and Irish traditional that Sinéad O’Connor recorded in 2002 — which also features the Irish folk duo Ye Vagabonds. Just like all …

Julien Baker stops herself to apologize. “I don’t know why I’m now telling you the footnotes of my thesis,” she says, with a typical dose of self-consciousness. It makes perfect sense that Baker has slipped into full academic mode, talking about jazz and “the subjectivities of language” — because, lately, …