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News Articles: Music Features

Bono, left, with <em>Morning Edition </em>co-host Rachel Martin.

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  • Music Interviews

Bono discusses his new memoir, 'Surrender,' and the faith at U2's core

The veteran rock star speaks with Morning Edition about his new memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story — and in particular, his deep-rooted spirituality.

October 27, 2022
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  • Rachel Martin,
  • Phil Harrell,
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iLe.

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  • Music Interviews

Singer and songwriter iLe's third album, 'Nacarile,' finds a world deeply in flux

The Puerto Rican artist returns with a new album, her first since protests galvanized San Juan and beyond in 2019.

October 20, 2022
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By:
  • Leila Fadel and
  • Lilly Quiroz
Composer Julia Wolfe at the Nashville Symphony Orchestra's world premiere of her piece <em>Her Story</em> on Sept. 15, 2022.

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  • Music

Our biggest orchestras are finally playing more music by women. What took so long?

As the new concert season gets underway, composers and orchestra administrators say they are feeling a shift in whose music gets heard.

October 17, 2022
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By:
  • Tom Huizenga
Matty Healy performs with The 1975 at the Leeds Festival in August 2022.

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  • Music Features

Love Songs of a Dirtbag

On Being Funny In A Foreign Language, the new album by his band The 1975, Matty Healy makes romantic music for cynical outsiders who insist they're ready to give love a try.

October 14, 2022
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By:
  • Ann Powers
Louis Cole leads collaborators through a deadpan dance medley in the video for "I'm Tight."

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  • Music Features

What is viral jazz?

Hard to define, for one thing. But in our disorienting digital age, these image-savvy, genre-fluid, proficient yet irreverent artists can seem like the only ones who've gleefully cracked the code.

October 12, 2022
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By:
  • Nate Chinen
The new interior of David Geffen Hall, during a New York Philharmonic tuning session.

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  • Arts & Life

Stripped to the bones: Why a new NYC concert hall sounds so much better

The new David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center, home of the New York Philharmonic, opens this week. And while the outside is the same, everything inside has changed.

October 10, 2022
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  • Jeff Lunden
Lucrecia Dalt has become one of modern music's most fascinating chameleons.

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  • Music Features

On '¡Ay!', the tropical music of Lucrecia Dalt's childhood becomes avant-garde sci-fi

On her surreal, sci-fi and decidedly romantic new album ¡Ay!, the Colombian, Berlin-based electronic artist crafts an alien narrative drawing inspiration from the genres of her youth.

October 10, 2022
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  • Lewis Gordon
The band Hacía la Victoria, Spanish for "Onward to Victory," after rehearsal in Santiago, Chile, on Aug. 31. All of the musicians in the band sustained serious eye injuries during clashes with police who used tear gas and shotguns against anti-government protesters in 2019. From left: Camilo Galvez, Vicente Pascal, Sergio Concha, Gustavo Gatica, Cesar Galloso, Andrés López, Miles Camus.

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  • World

For Chileans blinded in police violence, making music has become one path to healing

All members of Hacía la Victoria ("Onward to Victory") sustained eye injuries during clashes with police in anti-government protests in 2019. Their lyrics focus on police brutality and their own pain.

October 10, 2022
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  • John Otis
That Loretta Lynn sang about women's struggles while masterfully projecting the image of an uncorrupted country girl made her all the more convincing as an artist.

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  • Music

Personifying a country ideal, Loretta Lynn tackled sexism through a complicated lens

Rather than extol Lynn in ways she rejected, we should appreciate the agency with which she so impressively crafted her identity in country music.

October 09, 2022
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  • Amanda Marie Martinez
Composer and trumpeter Etienne Charles, in a portrait taken inside the newly renovated David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center.

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  • Music

Revisiting San Juan Hill, the neighborhood destroyed to make way for Lincoln Center

In New York City, the area dominated by Lincoln Center was formerly home to Black and Puerto Rican communities. Etienne Charles' new musical work addresses that difficult past.

October 07, 2022
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
<em>Component System</em> is a record that makes a case for the past as a continuously changing and evolving presence, not a trapped-in-amber escape route.

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  • Music Features

Open Mike Eagle makes himself a mixtape

The referential artist discusses hip-hop's repurposing spirit, reconciling zonal versions of himself, making sense of rap's "golden era" and his new album, Component System with the Auto Reverse.

October 05, 2022
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  • Nate Patrin
Unreleased in its entirety until now, Brazilian singer-songwriter Joyce Moreno's <em>Natureza</em> is a snapshot of the artist on her own terms.

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  • Music Features

Unreleased for decades, Joyce Moreno's 'Natureza' is a snapshot of newfound freedom

Recorded with Claus Ogerman, Natureza could have made the Brazilian singer-songwriter an international star. Now released, the long lost album captures a turning point in her approach to music.

October 04, 2022
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By:
  • Andy Beta
Some tapes from Syrian Cassette Archive's collection.

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  • Music Interviews

The Syrian Cassette Archive, preserving a disappearing history

When Yamen Mekdad and Mark Gergis met in 2018, the pair combined their love of Syrian cassettes into a project aiming to save them — and share them more widely.

October 03, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • Noah Caldwell,
  • and 1 more
Once regarded as an incorruptible pillar of tradition, the marimba becomes a revolutionary rock 'n' roll instrument for band Son Rompe Pera.

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  • Music Features

Mexico's Son Rompe Pera bang the marimba at the crossroads of cumbia and punk

Tradition and modernity coexist peacefully within Son Rompe Pera, where punk collides with the cumbia the band grew up playing.

October 03, 2022
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By:
  • Richard Villegas
Gibbs is so skilled in the booth you have to meet him halfway to extract the penitence and sorrow in the marrow of some of these songs.

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  • Music Reviews

With '$oul $old $eparately,' Freddie Gibbs cashes in on his cachet

Forget what F. Scott Fitzgerald said about American lives and second acts, Gibbs is on his third or fourth. $$$ is a rewarding listen that sometimes labors under the weight of a forced progression.

October 01, 2022
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  • Matthew Ramirez
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