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News Articles: Music Features

Fans photographed on the eve of Daft Punk's album launch, held in the tiny Australian town of Wee Waa, on May 17, 2013.

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  • Music Features

What Does Daft Punk Leave Behind?

Known for indelible hits like "One More Time" and "Around the World," the now-legendary French duo called it quits this week after years of silence.

February 24, 2021
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By:
  • Andrew Flanagan
Country artists like Miko Marks, Rissi Palmer, Mickey Guyton and Willie Jones are making standout music despite the confines of an industry that privileges whiteness.

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  • Music Features

With All Eyes On Country Music, Will Black Nashville Get The Reckoning It Deserves?

Country music's race problem became a hot topic in early February, but the roots of racial injustice in the industry go much deeper. Two Nashville writers unpack the history and recent responses.

February 19, 2021
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By:
  • Jewly Hight and
  • Andrea Williams
Pauline Anna Strom, who expanded synth music's color palette in the 1980s, died in December at 74. The posthumous album <em>Angel Tears in Sunlight</em>, out Feb. 19, is her first in over 30 years.

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  • Music Features

Music From The Mind's Eye

The reclusive Bay Area artist awakened new possibilities for synth music in the 1980s. Angel Tears in Sunlight, Pauline Anna Strom's first album in 30 years, was intended to be a creative rebirth.

February 18, 2021
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By:
  • Lewis Gordon
Singer and instrumentalist Flory Jagoda (left) performing with viola da gamba player Heather Spence at an event in Potomac, Md. in 2012. Jagoda died on Jan. 29.

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  • Music Features

Remembering Flory Jagoda, Who Preserved Sephardic Jewish Music And Language

Born in Sarajevo, Flory Jagoda celebrated the music and language of her ancestors who had been expelled from Spain in 1492. She died Jan. 29 at age 97.

February 12, 2021
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
A variety of artists remember acclaimed composer Armando Manzanero.

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  • Music

Remembering The Legacy Of Maestro Armando Manzanero

Latin artists across generations and genres revered Armando Manzanero, who died in December due to COVID-19. We asked a few of our favorite musicians to pay tribute to the acclaimed Mexican composer.

February 12, 2021
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By:
  • Anamaria Sayre and
  • Felix Contreras
Kayhan Kalhor is an Iranian <em>kamancheh</em> virtuoso and composer whose work has been celebrated around the globe.

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  • Music

After U.S. Immigration Battle, Musician Kayhan Kalhor Returns To Iran

Grammy-winning Iranian musician Kayhan Kalhor called the U.S. home for decades, until chaotic encounters with the immigration system caused him to leave the country permanently.

February 10, 2021
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
A mural honoring George Floyd and the larger Black Lives Matter movement is pictured on a wall of Native Hostel. It was created by local artist Chris Rogers.

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  • Music

City Scenes: The Truth Reflects, And Austin Doesn't Like What It Sees

KUTX examines the impact of Austin's racial justice protests inspired by George Floyd's death.

February 10, 2021
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By:
  • Miles Bloxson,
  • Elizabeth McQueen,
  • and 2 more
Maryanne Amacher, an artist and composer, is one of the women featured in the new documentary <em>Sisters with Transistors.</em>

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  • Music Features

'Sisters With Transistors': Pioneers Of Electronic Music

The new documentary tells the story of the roles women played — and continue to play — in the creation and development of electronic music, from theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore to today.

February 10, 2021
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By:
  • Allyson McCabe
Arlo Parks' album <em>Collapsed in Sunbeams</em> is a collage of joy, pain and heartbreak.

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  • Music Features

On 'Collapsed In Sunbeams,' Arlo Parks Welcomes Endings And Change

The artist, who is also a mental health ambassador for the British charity CALM, examines mental health and friendship on her new record, Collapsed in Sunbeams.

February 05, 2021
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By:
  • Noah Caldwell and
  • Alex Ramos
"There's so many people who refuse to hear each other and refuse to understand," says Tamara Lindeman. "The album, I think, is in part about this process of moving through denial into understanding."

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  • Music Interviews

On 'Ignorance,' The Weather Station Compels You To Care

During an intense reckoning with the global climate crisis, Tamara Lindeman wrote much her new album. For her, the biggest takeaway was "to acknowledge that I could care this much and this deeply."

February 04, 2021
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By:
  • Marissa Lorusso
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  • Music Features

The Blind Spot In The Great American Protest Song

Jennifer Lopez's performance of "This Land Is Your Land" at last month's presidential inauguration ceremony has reignited conversations about the erasure of Native Americans in the iconic folk tune.

February 03, 2021
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By:
  • Sam Kesler
Trombonist Jonas Gwangwa performs in Sandton, South Africa in 2017.

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  • Obituaries

Jonas Gwangwa, South African Musician And Activist, Dies At 83

The trombonist was a major figure in South Africa's early jazz scene, and an activist after the restrictions imposed by apartheid. In 1988 he was nominated for an Oscar for his theme to Cry Freedom.

January 23, 2021
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By:
  • Martin Johnson
Darlene Love in 1964. Love was the uncredited singer on a handful of the biggest hits produced by Phil Spector during the era when he was making his "Wall of Sound" production technique famous.

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  • Music Features

The Voices Of Black Women Were Essential To Phil Spector's Wall Of Sound

The full impact of Spector's musical legacy is impossible to measure without accounting for the creative labor of singers like Darlene Love and the damage Spector's manipulations did to their careers.

January 21, 2021
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By:
  • Maureen Mahon
Palberta's album <em>Palberta5000</em> is out Jan. 22.

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  • Music Interviews

Punk And Harmony: Rising Rock Trio Palberta Finds A Sweet Spot

Just as soon as you think you have a frame of reference for the Brooklyn band's sound, it swerves into an entirely new direction. Palberta's new album, Palberta5000, comes out Jan. 22.

January 19, 2021
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By:
  • Sam Kesler
Maria Schneider (center) whose album <em>Data Lords</em> was one of 2020's most acclaimed jazz albums, performs with her orchestra at the New York City club Jazz Standard, where the group had an 16-year annual Thanksgiving week performance that was interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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  • Music Features

We Need To Be Able To Feel

The cost of 2020 — in lives, livelihoods, legacies and communities — is high and still being tallied. For jazz critic Nate Chinen, all that loss demands change to old ideas of critical objectivity.

January 15, 2021
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By:
  • Nate Chinen
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