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News Articles: Music Interviews

"Pretty much any Saturday that The Roots aren't touring and they're taping, I'm in the audience watching," Questlove says of <em>SNL</em>.

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  • Television

Questlove charts 50 years of SNL musical hits (and misses)

Questlove's documentary, Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music, highlights the show's most iconic musical performances and comedy sketches — and addresses the show's "unhummable" theme song.

January 27, 2025
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By:
  • Terry Gross
FKA twigs — the English singer, dancer and actor Tahliah Debrett Barnett — is out with a new album, <em>Eusexua</em>.

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  • Arts & Life

FKA twigs is out with a new album inspired by underground raves

FKA twigs — the English singer, dancer, and actor Tahliah Debrett Barnett — is out with her third studio album, Eusexua.

January 24, 2025
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By:
  • Noah Caldwell,
  • Juana Summers,
  • and 1 more
Billie Eilish performs onstage during in New York City in May 2024.

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  • Music

Billie Eilish thought she'd always have a soft voice. Singing lessons changed that

The Grammy Award-winning singer says working with a vocal coach "honestly changed my life." Eilish and her brother/collaborator Finneas talk about their new album, Hit Me Hard and Soft.

December 17, 2024
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By:
  • Terry Gross
Jon Batiste re-imagines Beethoven compositions in his new album <em>Beethoven Blues</em>. He's shown above in the 2023 documentary <em>American Symphony.</em>

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  • Music Interviews

Jon Batiste finds the Blues in Beethoven

Batiste re-imagines Beethoven compositions in his new album. It's "not that the original wasn't great and transcendent..." he says. "But there's also a lot of things since then that have happened."

December 09, 2024
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  • Terry Gross

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  • Music

Jon Batiste traces the blues back to Beethoven and beyond

The Grammy winner and former Late Show bandleader unravels the crisscrossing threads of musical lineage from Beethoven's own personal blues to the musical art form that undergirds Batiste's Louisiana roots.

December 05, 2024
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By:
  • Lara Downes
Selena Gomez in <em>Emilia Pérez.</em>

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  • Movie Interviews

Selena Gomez says 'Emilia Pérez' won't be her last Spanish language project

Gomez grew up speaking Spanish, but lost her fluency around the same time she began her Hollywood career as a kid. She spent months relearning the language for her latest role as the wife of a Mexican cartel boss.

November 19, 2024
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By:
  • Tonya Mosley
Athens musicians Itamar Zorman and Liza Stepanova

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  • Music Interviews

Partners in music, partners in life: Meet Athens’ Itamar Zorman and Liza Stepanova

They’re an international pair who have become Americans and put down roots in Georgia. Pianist Liza Stepanova moved from Belarus to Berlin and then to the States. Violinist Itamar Zorman studied in Israel and Germany before landing in New York, where the two met in school. In addition to their individual careers and their juggling act as parents, they perform together as two-thirds of the Lysander Piano Trio.

November 13, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah Zaslaw
Lucas (left) and Arthur Jussen have played together as a piano duo since they were young boys.

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  • Music Interviews

Lucas & Arthur Jussen release 'little diamonds' EP of lesser-known piano duets

NPR's A Martínez speaks with Dutch brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen about their new EP, Rêve, featuring piano duets by lesser-known composers influenced by — or rejecting — French Impressionism.

November 06, 2024
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By:
  • Olivia Hampton and
  • A Martínez
Brothers Alex (top) and Eddie Van Halen in an undated photo.

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  • Music Interviews

Undone by the loss of his brother Eddie, Alex Van Halen looks back in a new memoir

Though Alex had been the guitarist in the family, when they formed Van Halen, it quickly became clear who would play: "[Ed] made that instrument sing." Alex's new memoir is Brothers.

October 29, 2024
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By:
  • Tonya Mosley
Jamie Barton

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  • Music Interviews

Meet Jamie Barton, Georgia’s international opera star with roots in Floyd County

She crosses the globe for her career, but she is still close with her family and community in the Northwest Georgia valley where she grew up.

October 23, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah Zaslaw
Hanson (from left): Brothers Isaac, Zac and Taylor perform at Atlanta's Buckhead Theater on Oct. 22 and 23, 2024

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  • Music Interviews

Hanson reflects on 20 years of 'Underneath' and favorite Georgia memories

The Grammy nominated trio from Tulsa, Oklahoma, returns to Atlanta to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its album Underneath. They'll play two nights of concerts at Atlanta's Buckhead Theater on Oct. 22 and 23, 2024.

October 18, 2024
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By:
  • Kristi York Wooten
John Scofield has played with Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and many more over the 100 or so albums he's recorded as a sideman and bandleader. He says that picking 10 tracks from that illustrious catalog felt "overwhelming."

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  • Music

50 years in 10 tracks: A career-spanning playlist from John Scofield

Guitarist John Scofield picks 10 of his favorite tracks from his own catalog and shares the stories behind them as he celebrates 50 years of recorded music.

October 16, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah Geledi
Pharrell Williams tells the story of his life in <em>Piece By Piece</em>

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  • Music Interviews

Pharrell wanted to tell his story through Legos — here's why

The animated film Piece By Piece traces Pharrell’s early life as a boy growing up in Virginia Beach and follows his trajectory to a Grammy-winning songwriter, performer and producer.

October 08, 2024
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By:
  • Tonya Mosley
Gabriela Ortiz is occupying the Composer's Chair at Carnegie Hall this season.

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  • Music Interviews

The borderless music of Gabriela Ortiz

At last, the ambitious composer finds herself in the spotlight, with a Carnegie Hall residency and a sparkling new album featuring Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

October 07, 2024
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By:
  • Tom Huizenga
Following her death, SOPHIE's family says she left behind a collection of hundreds of unreleased songs, as well as a follow-up album to her debut. But the album wasn’t finished.

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  • Music News

How do you finish a visionary artist’s final album?

The electronic music producer’s family and collaborators spent three years completing the album SOPHIE with the pieces she left behind after her death.

September 28, 2024
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By:
  • Hazel Cills
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