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News Articles: Music Interviews

"I feel like, up until this point, I probably was being 88% honest at face with everything," Rashad says. "And then now it's more like a hundred. And it doesn't hurt to. I don't feel the risk factor in talking about stuff."

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  • Music Interviews

We've seen Isaiah Rashad exposed. Now he's ready to bare his soul

In the five years since his last album, the Chattanooga rapper retreated from the public eye after a very private betrayal. He emerges with raw new music in pursuit of a warts-and-all self-acceptance.

May 16, 2026
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By:
  • Rodney Carmichael
After a career with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flea has his first solo album. "I'm making music that occupies its own place in the world and that feels that's good to me," he says of <em>Honora</em>.

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  • Music Interviews

Flea on his wild path from childhood to the Chili Peppers: 'Thank God I've changed'

The longtime bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers has his first solo album. "I'm making music that occupies its own place in the world and that feels that's good to me," Flea says of Honora.

April 29, 2026
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  • Terry Gross
Composer John Luther Adams, photographed in his outdoor studio in Baja California Sur, Mexico, in 2017.

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  • Music

The dissenting musical life of John Luther Adams

The Pulitzer-winning composer, whose unconventional music reflects the rugged landscapes he lives in, talks about his relationship to nature and his new piece Horizon.

April 21, 2026
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  • Tom Huizenga
"I'm not really preaching to the musicians and the other artists," Martin says. "I do music for the person that's nine months late on their rent [and] ain't got no job but got two kids."

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  • Music Interviews

The transformation of Terrace Martin

After years spent as the go-to guy for a cross-pollinating L.A. music scene, the multi-hyphenate follows his spiritual mission inward for the sprawling series Love Is Louder Than The Algorithms.

April 16, 2026
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  • Rodney Carmichael
Lauren Roth-Gomez

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  • Music Interviews

She asked Santa for a violin at age 3. Now Lauren Roth-Gómez is an ASO soloist

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra second chair Lauren Roth-Gómez stopped by GPB to talk with Sarah Zaslaw about her history with the Bach Double and other bits of her background — including quite determinedly asking Santa for her very first instrument.

March 31, 2026
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  • Sarah Zaslaw
Kabir Sehgal album Stars and Stripes

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  • Music Interviews

A lo-fi celebration of America's 250th birthday is coming to a playlist near you

Atlanta producer Kabir Sehgal helped Jimmy Carter and the Dalai Lama win Grammys for spoken word projects. Now his new album Stars and Static explores the pride and challenges of American life.

March 27, 2026
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  • Kristi York Wooten
"I always felt like there's this drag aspect to performing a female role," Robyn says. "It was so claustrophobic for me when I was younger but now it feels interesting to play with."

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  • Music Interviews

Robyn on her trolling, playful new album 'Sexistential'

As the trailblazing Swedish star returns with her first album since 2018, she talks through going on IVF and solo parenting, expressing sexuality, and the negotiation of being a self-aware pop star.

March 27, 2026
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  • Hazel Cills

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  • Music

Flea returns to his first love, jazz

Flea's first musical love wasn't rock. It was jazz. The iconic bassist joins Christian McBride to talk about his debut solo album, Honora, and his return to the music that started it all.

March 26, 2026
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  • Sarah Geledi and
  • Simon Rentner
India Arie is celebrating the 25th anniversary of her debut album, Acoustic Soul, on March 29 at Center Stage Atlanta

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  • Music

What is 'Acoustic Soul'? Singer India Arie reflects on her debut

The singer, one of the architects of Atlanta's music scene at the turn of the millennium, celebrates the 25th anniversary of her first album with a concert at Atlanta's Center Stage Theater on March 29 and April 3, 2026.

March 23, 2026
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  • Kristi York Wooten
"I wanted the album to reach people in a real way," Jill Scott says of <em>To Whom This May Concern.</em>

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  • Music Interviews

Singer Jill Scott is doing what she wants: 'Everything has led me to this place'

The Grammy-winning singer describes herself as a "53-year-old woman who is maneuvering her career the way she wants to, how she wants to." Scott's new album is To Whom This May Concern.

March 19, 2026
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  • Tonya Mosley
Iván Valbuena

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  • Music Interviews

A Colombian clarinetist in Atlanta: Meet Iván Valbuena

Many noted guest artists perform with the Atlanta Symphony each year, but it’s the musicians on the stage week in and week out who make the orchestra what it is. One of those is clarinetist Iván Valbuena.

March 19, 2026
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  • Sarah Zaslaw
Adam Gopnik, author and staff writer for <em>The New Yorker</em>, joins pianist Lara Downes to explore the story of American music and its immigrant roots.

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  • Music

Adam Gopnik salutes the immigrant experience that shaped American music

In a conversation with pianist Lara Downes, the New Yorker staff writer says music in America will keep evolving as long as the country keeps an open door to new people and new sounds.

March 17, 2026
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  • Lara Downes
Actors gaze up to the sky during JJ'88's "ROOT" in the hip-hop artist and former inmate's documentary/visual album <em>Songs from the Hole.</em> Before the song starts, protagonist and producer James "JJ'88" Jacobs describes meditating on his and others' redemption while incarcerated and in solitary confinement.

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  • Photography

'Songs from the Hole': The story behind JJ'88's documentary and visual album

The visual album and documentary Songs from the Hole tells the story of James Jacobs, the hip-hop artist JJ'88, as he reflects on his coming-of-age within California's state prison system.

March 12, 2026
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  • Kara Frame
The sounds of traditional country music "are baked into what feels like home to me," Musgraves says. Her sixth album, <em>Middle of Nowhere</em>, will be released on May 1, 2026.

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  • Music

On her new album, Kacey Musgraves returns home, to the 'Middle of Nowhere'

Before making her upcoming sixth album, the country star returned to her small-town Texas home and discovered the power of in-between spaces. "I found a lot of clarity there," she says.

March 11, 2026
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  • Jewly Hight
"I knew I was definitely blessed with a gift. And always like to say the gift wasn't just my gift," Saadiq says. "It was given to me. So I had to do something with that gift."

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  • Music

How the blues brought musical journeyman Raphael Saadiq to the Oscars

The singer-songwriter and producer has had one of the more distinguished and multifaceted careers in modern music. He talks about following an unconventional path from Tony! Toni! Toné! to Sinners.

March 10, 2026
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By:
  • Rodney Carmichael
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