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<em>Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers</em> is the first album from Kendrick Lamar since <em>DAMN.</em>, the 2017 release that made him the first rapper to win a Pulitzer Prize.

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Kendrick Lamar is ready to talk. Is he ready to listen?

The long-dormant, era-defining rapper makes one thing clear from the start of Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers: He's not the hero you're looking for.

May 18, 2022
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  • Marcus J. Moore
<em>Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers</em> is the first album from Kendrick Lamar since <em>DAMN.</em>, the 2017 release that made him the first rapper to win a Pulitzer Prize.

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  • Music Reviews

Kendrick Lamar is ready to talk. Is he ready to listen?

The long-dormant, era-defining rapper makes one thing clear from the start of Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers: He's not the hero you're looking for.

May 18, 2022
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By:
  • Marcus J. Moore
Leikeli47 (left) speaks with NPR's Sidney Madden about how <em>Shape Up </em>tracks the rapper's learning process to embody the confidence she so often preaches onstage to others.

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Leikeli47 wants you to look and listen deeper

Cozy and coiffed in a Brooklyn studio, watch the masked rapper break down essential tracks from Shape Up with host Sidney Madden.

May 16, 2022
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  • Sidney Madden
Margo Price, performing on the roof of Third Man Records on Sept. 13, 2018 in Nashville.

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  • Music Features

Margo Price recalls the uppers, downers & out-of-towners of early motherhood

In an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir, singer-songwriter Margo Price remembers the early days of motherhood and marriage, their chaos compounded by a late-living musical lifestyle.

May 15, 2022
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  • Margo Price
Margo Price, performing on the roof of Third Man Records on Sept. 13, 2018 in Nashville.

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  • Music Features

Margo Price recalls the uppers, downers & out-of-towners of early motherhood

In an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir, singer-songwriter Margo Price remembers the early days of motherhood and marriage, their chaos compounded by a late-living musical lifestyle.

May 15, 2022
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  • Margo Price
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This educator writes 'anti-narcocorridos' — songs that tell the story of heroes

Mexican singer Vivir Quintana talks about her latest song, 'El Corrido de Milo Vela,' which tells the story of one of the many journalists who have been murdered in Mexico for doing their jobs.

May 08, 2022
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By:
  • Ayesha Rascoe,
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento,
  • and 1 more
Skylar Tang, a 16-year-old from the San Francisco Bay area, is the winner of the Dr. J. Douglas White Composing & Arranging Contest.

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Who says big band jazz is for old people? Not this teenage composer.

California musician Skylar Tang, 16, is the winner of a Jazz at Lincoln Center contest. She'll accept the award in New York this weekend.

May 06, 2022
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Naomi Judd (right) and Wynonna Judd perform during the 2008 Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio, Calif.

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Naomi Judd embodied the role of country music's 'mother' — and helped to expand it

Alongside her daughter Wynonna, Naomi Judd, who died on April 30, willed one of the most riveting acts in country music into being through persistence and sacrifice.

May 04, 2022
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  • Jewly Hight
Naomi Judd (right) and Wynonna Judd perform during the 2008 Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio, Calif.

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  • Music Features

Naomi Judd embodied the role of country music's 'mother' — and helped to expand it

Alongside her daughter Wynonna, Naomi Judd, who died on April 30, willed one of the most riveting acts in country music into being through persistence and sacrifice.

May 04, 2022
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By:
  • Jewly Hight
Talib Kweli of the rap duo Black Star, photographed performing in New York City on July 22, 2017.

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  • Music Interviews

Talib Kweli on Black Star's return: 'We stand tall on the shoulders of our ancestors'

Talib Kweli discusses the return of Black Star after 24 years, including a return to some of the duo's foundational themes — black excellence, unity, Pan-Africanism and the raising of consciousness.

May 03, 2022
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By:
  • Leila Fadel and
  • Taylor Haney
Mazel Tov Cocktail Party's influences are global, but the sound they create is uniquely their own.

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  • Arts & Life

Mazel Tov Cocktail Party: Take an ounce of hip hop, dash of polka, then square dance

Finding a thriving dance culture in the Adirondacks Mountains inspired the band to take its sound in an unexpected direction.

May 02, 2022
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  • Jon Kalish
Jean Baylor pointing to the next song on the list, for the Baylor Project album "Generations", 2020, at Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, NY, 2018.

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  • Music

In the studio for International Jazz Day

April 30th is International Jazz Day. Jazz Night in America tapped photographer Deneka Peniston to share scenes from recording sessions featuring jazz artists who are shaping the music today.

April 30, 2022
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  • Deneka Peniston
A freshly painted street mural outside Liuzza's by the Track in New Orleans on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, celebrates the impending return of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

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Echoes of 2006: Jazz Fest returns to New Orleans for 2022

Opening for the first time in three years, the festival brings memories of 2006 when the annual celebration of music and culture went on after Hurricane Katrina.

April 29, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Donald Harrison

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The nouveau swing of Donald Harrison Jr., Big Chief and NEA Jazz Master

Hear stories from New Orleans saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr.'s upbringing, words from his mentee, drummer Joe Dyson, and a performance on his home turf recorded at Snug Harbor.

April 28, 2022
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By:
  • Nate Chinen,
  • Camilo Garzón,
  • and 1 more
Dua Lipa

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  • Music Interviews

In Dua Lipa's ever-expanding world, 'there's no time limit and there's no what-ifs'

The pop star is returning to stages two years after releasing an acclaimed second album, Future Nostalgia, and being forced like everyone else to hunker down for the long chill.

April 28, 2022
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  • Rachel Martin and
  • Marc Rivers
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