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News Articles: Genre: Rock

Paul McCartney plays at the Bowery Ballroom, a small club in New York City. Last week, he surprised audiences by playing three shows at the club, which usually plays host to up-and-coming indie rock bands.

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  • Music

Paul McCartney, live from New York: The easy genius of the cute Beatle

Last week, the hottest ticket in NYC wasn't the SNL 50th anniversary concert. It was the three nights Paul McCartney played at a tiny downtown venue that usually hosts up-and-coming indie rock bands.

February 18, 2025
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  • Ann Powers
On its sophomore album, Horsegirl strips its sound back to post-punk basics.

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  • Music

Horsegirl finds power in keeping things playful

Horsegirl's sophomore album Phonetics On & On is a compulsively replayable record full of arrestingly catchy, bare-bones songwriting and twee treasures.

February 18, 2025
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By:
  • Hazel Cills
Faye Webster performs a Tiny Desk concert at NPR Music in Washington, D.C.

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  • Music

Faye Webster: Tiny Desk Concert

Featuring her longtime band and a string quartet, Webster guides us through a swooning and sweeping set.

January 31, 2025
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  • Elle Mannion
A previously unreleased Tina Turner song, "Hot for You Baby" from the 1980s, has been rediscovered. Turner is pictured above performing in Paris in 1987.

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  • Music News

Lost Tina Turner song is just OK, say critics. But that's not why it matters.

Originally recorded for the rock star's major album Private Dancer, "Hot For You Baby" was thought lost.

January 24, 2025
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman and
  • Jennifer Vanasco
Garth Hudson performs in 2012 at the Love For Levon benefit concert in East Rutherford, N.J., a memorial tribute to his bandmate Levon Helm.

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  • Music

Garth Hudson, The Band's last founding member, dies at 87

The Canadian musician played keyboard, organ and saxophone on some of group's most memorable songs.

January 24, 2025
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Starflyer 59's new album is a collection of lullabies titled <em>Déjame Dormir</em>, which means "let me sleep."

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  • Music

Starflyer 59 reimagines three decades of music as lullabies

Starflyer 59's Déjame Dormir strips away layers of distortion and feedback for something soft and sleepy.

January 13, 2025
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  • Lars Gotrich and
  • Scott Detrow
MJ Lenderman

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  • Music

MJ Lenderman makes the everyday profound on 'Manning Fireworks'

The singer-songwriter and guitarist from Asheville, N.C., talks about his breakout record, one of the most critically acclaimed of the year.

December 06, 2024
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  • Raina Douris and
  • Miguel Perez

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  • Music

The 50 Best Albums Of 2024

You can't always know that it's a great year for new music while it's happening, but there was a sense from the very start of 2024 that we were in for a ride.

December 02, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Juan Luis Guerra won both record and album of the year at the Latin Grammy Awards Thursday in Miami.

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  • Music

Juan Luis Guerra 4.40 wins big at the 25th Latin Grammys

On Thursday, Miami hosted the Latin Grammy Awards. Artist Juan Luis Guerra and his band 4.40, who won for record of the year and album of the year, plus producer Edgar Barrera, gathered the most awards of the night.

November 16, 2024
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  • Felix Contreras
Phil Lesh of The Grateful Dead, seen here in 2005, died Friday at the age of 84.

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  • Obituaries

The Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh dies at 84

Lesh, an original member of America's preeminent jam band, died Friday morning.

October 25, 2024
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
MJ Lenderman's fifth solo album, <em>Manning Fireworks</em>, finds inspiration in The Band and the Drive-By Truckers.

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  • Music

MJ Lenderman joins rock and roll’s lineage of heartbreak kids

Ann Powers considers the breakthrough of indie rock up-and-comer MJ Lenderman, and finds that he’s got some classic rock in his tales of romantic woe.

September 11, 2024
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  • Ann Powers
On Nick Cave's his latest album, <em>Wild God</em>, out August 30, the fragility of his recent recordings has evolved into a cathartic emotional and musical power that bursts out of the songs.

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  • Music

Nick Cave wrestles with a ‘Wild God’

"If I have to define my music in any way," Nick Cave says, "it's religious music." His new album is a gallery of encounters with spiritual, possibly divine figures, not all of whom are benevolent.

August 20, 2024
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By:
  • Ann Powers
Members of the Los Angeles hard-rock group Great White are shown in this undated photo. Standing is Jack Russell.  Seated, from left to right, are Audie Desbrow, Mark Kendall and Michael Lardie.

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  • Music

Jack Russell, the former singer of the band Great White, dies at 63

The band was behind such hits as “Once Bitten Twice Shy,” “The Angel Song” and “Rock Me.”

August 16, 2024
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Girl and Girl

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  • Music

Hear a live concert by Australia's next buzz band, Girl and Girl

The Australian indie rock band performs songs off its debut album, Call A Doctor.

August 15, 2024
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  • Stephen Kallao
St. Vincent

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  • Music

St. Vincent made the real world her backdrop on 'All Born Screaming'

The songwriter, guitarist and singer grounded her seventh studio album in the beauty and brutality of real life.

August 09, 2024
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  • Raina Douris and
  • Kimberly Junod
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