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News Articles: Music Interviews

J. Ivy, onstage during at the Grammy Museum on Dec. 11, 2022 in LA.

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  • Music Features

Poetry finally has its own Grammy category – mostly thanks to J. Ivy, nominee

Poet J. Ivy is a nominee for the Grammys' Best Spoken Word Poetry Album award — a new category he helped create, after petitioning the Recording Academy.

February 04, 2023
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By:
  • Mandalit del Barco
Omar Apollo poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Jan. 8, 2023.

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  • Music

Omar Apollo taught himself how to sing from YouTube. Now he's up for a Grammy

Omar Apollo has been nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammys, an accolade that usually takes artists years to achieve. But not for Apollo.

February 03, 2023
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By:
  • Jonaki Mehta,
  • Ailsa Chang,
  • and 1 more
In his expansive music, brakence tries on different worldviews like clothes, seeing how they fit as he develops his own theory of the world.

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  • Music Interviews

The extremely online psychedelia of brakence

Already a quiet influence on the hyperpop scene, fame, relationships, stimulants and screens collide in brakence's "realer-than-real" sound.

February 03, 2023
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By:
  • Mano Sundaresan

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  • Music Interviews

Jazz singer Samara Joy embraces the past while making music for the future

Watch Lara Downes' conversation with the 23-year-old, Grammy-nominated sensation about balancing the demands of a surging career and the women artists who paved the way.

February 02, 2023
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By:
  • Lara Downes
Matt Butler performing at the Central Utah Correctional Facility.

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  • Music

Matt Butler has played concerts in more than 50 prisons and jails

"Reckless Son" is a one-man show by singer/songwriter Matt Butler inspired by the convicts he's met while touring American prisons and jails.

January 31, 2023
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By:
  • Phil Harrell and
  • Leila Fadel
Japanese musician, composer, record producer, pianist, activist, writer, actor and dancer Ryuichi Sakamoto, photographed on June 30, 2016 in Paris.

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  • Music Interviews

As Ryuichi Sakamoto returns with '12,' fellow artists recall his impact

The composer has been lauded for decades over his deeply affective music; director Alejandro González Iñárritu, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir and more join us to explain why.

January 26, 2023
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair,
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento,
  • and 1 more
Missy Mazzoli's next opera, <em>Lincoln in the Bardo</em>, was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera and is slated for a 2025 production.

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  • Music Interviews

For Missy Mazzoli, composing is the hard work of making life easier

The composer of Breaking the Waves speaks candidly about equity in her field, the importance of role models and the unglamorous side of writing music every day.

January 26, 2023
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By:
  • Tom Huizenga
Adeem the Artist's new album, <em>White Trash Revelry</em>, captures fresh awareness of the scrutiny they receive for the array of identities they embody in life and in song.

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  • Music Interviews

Adeem the Artist refines their ability to tell country tales from where they stand

On White Trash Revelry, Adeem worked to understand their white, Southern, working-class, pansexual, nonbinary country songwriting identity — and they have some pretty great jokes about it.

January 24, 2023
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By:
  • Jewly Hight
Dos Santos

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  • Music

Dos Santos' sound is a cultural melting pot as eclectic as their Chicago home

The Chicago band pulls from a mix of Latin influences to create their unique take on psychedelic rock.

January 23, 2023
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By:
  • Raina Douris and
  • Miguel Perez
GPB News NPR

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  • Music Interviews

Rachael & Vilray share a mic — and a love of old swing standards

The duo have a new album, I Love a Love Song. In 2020, Rachael & Vilray spoke to Fresh Air and played songs from their self-titled debut album, which drew on the music of the '30s and '40s.

January 20, 2023
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By:
  • Sam Briger
Margo Price

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  • Music

Margo Price embarks on a new, psychedelic journey on 'Strays'

The Nashville singer-songwriter tells the story of the mind-altering trip that set the stage for her latest album, and changed her life.

January 13, 2023
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By:
  • Raina Douris and
  • John Myers
Oliver Sim

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  • Music

Oliver Sim invokes the misunderstood horror movie villain on 'Hideous Bastard'

Oliver Sim, the bass guitarist and vocalist for The xx talks about making "Hideous Bastard," his striking debut solo record.

January 09, 2023
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By:
  • Stephen Kallao and
  • Miguel Perez
Death Cab for Cutie

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  • Music

Death Cab for Cutie relinquishes control on 'Asphalt Meadows'

The band took a new approach to songwriting on their 10th studio album.

January 06, 2023
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By:
  • Stephen Kallao and
  • Kimberly Junod
Pavement

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  • Music

Take a walk down memory lane with Pavement

In this session, Pavement percussionist and multi-instrumentalist Bob Nastanovich talks about the band's enduring legacy and discovery by younger fans.

January 05, 2023
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By:
  • Raina Douris and
  • Miguel Perez
GPB News NPR

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  • Movie Interviews

'Weird Al' Yankovic wants to 'bring sexy back' to the accordion

It's "a very sensual instrument," the parody artists insists. A new over-the-top "biopic" tells the story of Yankovic's life — sort of. Originally broadcast Nov. 16, 2022.

December 30, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
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