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News Articles: Music Features

The troubles of <em>The Idol</em>'s embattled pop star Jocelyn feel out of step with what's demanded of mainstream music stars in 2023.

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  • Music Features

Why can't Hollywood get pop stardom right?

The singer at the center of HBO's new melodrama The Idol is awfully familiar. Why do so many film and TV depictions of pop stars fail the same way?

June 06, 2023
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By:
  • Hazel Cills
Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas and Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins of the Atlanta pop/R&B/hip-hop trio TLC, who have just released their first documentary, Lifetime/A&E's "TLC Forever"

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  • Music Features

'TLC Forever' is an often compelling reveal of TLC, now

TLC's look, hit songs and 'we-can-battle-with-the-guys' dance moves distinguished the Atlanta trio in the 1990s, but a new documentary proves their impact lives on.

June 05, 2023
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By:
  • Sonia Murray
Annaleigh Ashford, left, and Josh Groban star in Broadway's current revival of <em>Sweeney Todd</em>. Ashford says it's rare for musicals to have this large of an orchestra.

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  • Theater

After years of ever-shrinking orchestras, some Broadway musicals are going big

Producers have been saying for years that large Broadway orchestras are not financially feasible. In fact, the issue led to a strike 20 years ago. So why are some shows bringing them back?

June 03, 2023
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By:
  • Jeff Lunden
Residents listen as <a href="https://www.soundimpact.org/">Sound Impact</a> musicians play during the final performance of their three-day residency at the Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Center in Alexandria, Va.

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  • Music

Incarcerated teens find escape in music and poems composed with artists

Teens in jail in Virginia collaborate with musicians to compose songs, write poetry and find their voices after run-ins with the law.

June 02, 2023
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  • Olivia Hampton
Grammy Award-winning musicians Marcy Marxer and Cathy Fink sing about the unexpected humor they encountered during Marxer's seven-year fight with breast cancer in the concert film, <em>All Wigged Out</em>.

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  • Music Features

'All Wigged Out' is about fighting cancer with humor and humanity

The movie follows partners in music and life as they battle through breast cancer — while holding onto their sense of the comically absurd

May 29, 2023
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  • Barry Gordemer
The Beastie Boys, as illustrated by Anny Yi in the children's book, "What Is Hip-Hop?" by Eric Morse

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  • Music Features

Atlanta Jazz Festival's Kids Zone promotes reading with giveaway of 'What is Hip-Hop'?

Hip-hop has been many things in its half century of existence, and "suitable for children" probably isn't what immediately comes to mind. But one book challenges that perception.

May 26, 2023
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By:
  • Sonia Murray
Like poppa, like son.

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  • Music Features

'He gon' get these beats 'n' rhymes'

How young is too young to talk to your kids about rap? For a Louder co-host, the arrival of a Biggie-loving toddler changed everything about how he hears hip-hop — especially women's place within it.

May 25, 2023
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By:
  • Rodney Carmichael
Russell Gunn at The Apollo Theater's "The Blues and Its People"

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  • Music Features

How 'The Blues and Its People' made its way from New York's Apollo Theater to Atlanta Symphony Hall

"A work realized this way needed to be able to come home to Atlanta," noted Leatrice Ellzy Wright, a Sr. Director of Programming at the Apollo Theater who also still calls South Fulton home.

May 24, 2023
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  • Sonia Murray
Chris "Ludacris" Bridges receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

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  • Music Features

Atlanta's Ludacris has the No. 1 spot at the movies — and a new star in Hollywood

"I don’t want it if it's not authentic," Ludacris said. "If it's not organic, then I don't want any parts of it. That's just who I am. And I want to feel like I earned it. And I'm [going to] be honest with y'all — today I feel like I earned it!" (And Ludacris declared that before his Fast X made $320 million worldwide; securing the second-biggest global opening weekend of the year.)

May 22, 2023
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By:
  • Sonia Murray
"I'm making music for the people who don't know if they should say no. For the people that do too much," Rico Nasty says. "For the people who get too loud, get too rough. The girls that are too tough, the girls that are just not soft enough for society."

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  • Music

'I'm an outlier too'

Rico Nasty and her fans know what it's like to be judged for being themselves. For anyone who feels like an outsider, Nasty Mob is a space to forget that alienation.

May 18, 2023
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By:
  • Sam Leeds and
  • Sidney Madden
They're hip-hop artists who weave public-health messages into their rhymes: From left: Sister Fa, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels and Ali A.K.A. Mind perform at the Skoll World Forum 2023. During this rap, McDaniels called out: "I'm not afraid of the dark anymore/because I am the light./I'll be there at the start of the war/Because I am the fight."

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  • Arts & Life

Hip-hop turns 50: Here's a part of its history that doesn't always make headlines

For decades, the genre has had a stealth mission: promoting public health. It started with Doug E. Fresh's "Stroke Ain't No Joke."

May 15, 2023
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Anna Thorvaldsdottir begins her composing process by drawing shapes and writing words to help store musical information. Her scores themselves are finely detailed.

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  • Music Interviews

Structural integrity: Anna Thorvaldsdottir's rigorous, regenerative music

The Icelandic composer talks about the creative forces behind her distinctive music, her presence in the movie Tár and the "dome of energy" that fuels her country's artistic productivity.

May 15, 2023
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By:
  • Tom Huizenga
Miami rapper and social media icon Saucy Santana is redefining presentation standards for femme gay men in hip-hop, but the industry would rather keep his energy confined to TikTok.

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  • Music Features

'You're supposed to be somewhere doing hair and makeup'

Since 2019, Saucy Santana has been a regular presence on the social web, producing several streaming hits. But the very qualities that set him apart threatened to hold him back.

May 11, 2023
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By:
  • Gabby Bulgarelli and
  • Sidney Madden
Record producer Zev Feldman (left) and John Fowler, a charter member of the Left Bank Jazz Society, meet outside the Charles Theater in downtown Baltimore. The building once hosted some of the best jazz musicians in the country.

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  • Music

In a Baltimore basement, a jazz detective strikes gold

New recordings of old jazz performances at Baltimore's now-closed Famous Ballroom are being released for the first time.

May 08, 2023
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By:
  • Alejandra Marquez Janse,
  • Juana Summers,
  • and 2 more
Voyager's Daniel Estrin rehearses "Promise" for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest.

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  • Music Interviews

Rooting for a Eurovision singer of the same name

NPR's Daniel Estrin speaks with Daniel Estrin, lead singer of the band representing Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest, and Daniel Estrin, lead guitarist of the Grammy-nominated band Hoobastank.

May 08, 2023
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  • Daniel Estrin
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