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News Articles: Music Features

Singer songwriter Margo Cilker has carved out a niche performing original country songs from her home in rural Washington state.

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  • Music Features

Rural singer-songwriter Margo Cilker's pandemic hustle is paying off

The pandemic was especially tough for up-and-coming musicians from smaller cities and towns. But for at least one country rocker from the rural Northwest, it may have leveled the playing field.

June 12, 2022
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  • Kirk Siegler
Tenor Jamez McCorkle, who debuted the title role in the opera <em>Omar</em><em></em>, by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, which received its world premiere on May 27 in Charleston, S.C. at Spoleto Festival USA.

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  • Arts & Life

The debut of 'Omar,' a thoroughly American opera

Composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels have brought a true story to the opera stage: the life of Omar Ibn Said, a Senegalese Muslim scholar who was enslaved and brought to the Carolinas.

June 07, 2022
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Tenor Jamez McCorkle, who debuted the title role in the opera <em>Omar</em><em></em>, by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, which received its world premiere on May 27 in Charleston, S.C. at Spoleto Festival USA.

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  • Arts & Life

The debut of 'Omar,' a thoroughly American opera

Composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels have brought a true story to the opera stage: the life of Omar Ibn Said, a Senegalese Muslim scholar who was enslaved and brought to the Carolinas.

June 07, 2022
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
The Japanese psych-rock band Les Rallizes Dénudés were after a visceral — sometimes violent — impact, borne from unimaginable loudness.

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  • Music Features

The fuzz, feedback and folklore of a mythic Japanese psych-rock band

For five decades, the only way to hear the Japanese band's sprawling psychedelia was through live bootlegs. With The OZ Tapes, an official chapter of Les Rallizes Dénudés begins.

June 07, 2022
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  • Matt LaJoie
S.G. Goodman composed parts of her new album, <em>Teeth Marks</em>, to evoke the feeling of traumatic experiences building up in the body.

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  • Music Interviews

S.G. Goodman leaves 'Teeth Marks' in Southern stereotypes

A songwriter with a rural Kentucky zip code and a philosophy degree, Goodman has thoughts to spare on small-town life, bottled trauma and the ways that both are misunderstood.

June 06, 2022
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By:
  • Jewly Hight
S.G. Goodman composed parts of her new album, <em>Teeth Marks</em>, to evoke the feeling of traumatic experiences building up in the body.

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  • Music Interviews

S.G. Goodman leaves 'Teeth Marks' in Southern stereotypes

A songwriter with a rural Kentucky zip code and a philosophy degree, Goodman has thoughts to spare on small-town life, bottled trauma and the ways that both are misunderstood.

June 06, 2022
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By:
  • Jewly Hight
Star Feminine Band in Paris.

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  • Music

Like The Linda Lindas, this teen girl band in Benin makes you dance — and think

The 7-member band hails from a conservative part of the country. They sing about female genital cutting, child marriage and gender equality. And they rock.

May 28, 2022
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  • Nick Roll
Star Feminine Band in Paris.

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  • Music

Like The Linda Lindas, this teen girl band in Benin makes you dance — and think

The 7-member band hails from a conservative part of the country. They sing about female genital cutting, child marriage and gender equality. And they rock.

May 28, 2022
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  • Nick Roll
<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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  • 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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  • Music Interviews

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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  • Music Features

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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  • Ayesha Rascoe,
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento,
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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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  • Music Features

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
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