[MUSIC] Five music links: Seventeen, HMV and Sunrise, lo-fi hip-hop, Aretha Franklin, Matthew Lien

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• Noisey looks at the deep interest of pop music with the age 17.


• HMV stores have been saved in Britain, as they have been in Canada, by the purchase of many remaining stores by Sunrise Records. The Guardian reports.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how lo-fi hip-hop became such a popular genre for students to listen to as they studied.


• Joshua Jelly-Schapiro at the NYR Daily writes about the grace drawn from religion that marks Aretha Franklin the musician.


• MacLean's introduces its readers to Yukon-based musician Matthew Lien, a huge star in Taiwan but still unknown in Canada.