AS A CHILD in London, Olivia Campbell showed promise as a pianist, only to stop taking lessons before the equivalent of middle school. When the now-grown operations engineer decided to reacquaint ...

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Ever since the invention of electric amplification, there’s been tension in the music world — a perpetual stare-down between acoustic and electric, amplified and unplugged, the immediacy of live ...

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