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News Articles: Music Interviews

Chicago has toured since the 1960s and swings through Macon on April 9., 2025.

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  • Music Interviews

Rock Hall of Famers Chicago are heading to Macon. Check out the band's fun Georgia connection

Chicago's tour stops at the Macon City Auditorium April 9. Band co-founder and trumpeter Lee Loughnane gives GPB a preview.

April 04, 2025
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  • Kristi York Wooten

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  • Music Interviews

Jason Isbell confronts the pain of divorce, and the possibility of new love

Jason Isbell sings about his split from musician Amanda Shires on his latest album Foxes in the Snow. "What I was attempting to do is document a very specific time where I was going through a lot of changes," he says.

April 03, 2025
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By:
  • Terry Gross
Wadada Leo Smith (left) and Vijay Iyer have known and collaborated with each other for decades. They have just released their second album as a duo, <em>Defiant Life</em>, with Smith on trumpet and Iyer on piano.

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  • Music

Wadada Leo Smith and Vijay Iyer on what it takes to lead a defiant life

On their new album, two of the most celebrated composers and players in the jazz world pay homage to the pursuit of purpose and joy found in the struggle for liberation.

March 27, 2025
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  • Nate Chinen
Roderick Cox

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  • Music Interviews

Meet Roderick Cox, international conductor and son of Macon

LISTEN: Roderick Cox, music director of the opera orchestra in Montpellier, France, came home to Georgia to lead the ASO in concert last fall. GPB’s Sarah Zaslaw caught up with Roderick remotely in December.

March 24, 2025
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  • Sarah Zaslaw
"When people grieve or go through a great loss, there are just ugly parts that come out of people when they're in survival mode," Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner told NPR, reflecting on the complicated relationships behind her new album.

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  • Music

Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner embraces melancholy in new album

With a new album, Michelle Zauner tells NPR she is finally finding balance between all the things she yearns for: her career goals, a connection to family and a connection to her ancestral home of Korea.

March 21, 2025
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  • Lindsay Totty
American composer Steve Reich has invented, developed and evolved interlocking patterns in his music for more than six decades.

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  • Music

Steve Reich has always been to able to hear the pulse

The 88-year-old composer, who talks as fast as the interlocking phrases of his music, looks back on crucial moments in a career that moved minimalism into the mainstream.

March 14, 2025
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  • Tom Huizenga
Maestra Marin Alsop conducts the National Symphony Orchestra for a performance of Julia Wolfe's <em>Her Story</em> on Feb. 27.

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  • Music

Conductor Marin Alsop on Trump, the Kennedy Center and why art is bipartisan

The celebrated conductor brought Her Story, a potent piece by Julia Wolfe, to Kennedy Center audiences recently.

March 04, 2025
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  • Scott Simon and
  • Michael Radcliffe
South African cellist and composer Abel Selaocoe pictured Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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  • Music Interviews

South African cellist Abel Selaocoe fosters dialogue across time and cultures in a new album

South African cellist and composer Abel Selaocoe talks about his new album "Hymns of Bantu," which highlights the healing power of song across cultures.

February 24, 2025
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  • Olivia Hampton
Duane Betts

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  • Music Interviews

'This is for my dad': Duane Betts plans tribute to Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickey Betts

The lineup of the sold-out concert at the Macon City Auditorium features Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Oteil Burbridge, Jaimoe, Chuck Leavell, Devon Allman, Duane Betts, Charlie Starr, Jimmy Hall, Lamar Williams Jr. and more.

February 21, 2025
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  • Kristi York Wooten
The composer Celia Hollander (left) and rapper Fat Tony are two musicians who were affected by the LA wildfires, which destroyed the instruments, record collections and irreplaceable work of many artists.

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  • Music

For many LA musicians, the wildfires took their homes — and their livelihoods

The Los Angeles fires impacted many musical artists, destroying instruments, record collections and hard drives of irreplaceable work.

February 13, 2025
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  • Christopher Intagliata
The musician and documentary filmmaker Questlove says that music Sly Stone created in the 1960s and 1970s laid the foundation for the pop, R&B and funk sounds we hear today.

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  • Movie Interviews

Questlove confronts the 'burden of Black genius' in a new Sly Stone documentary

In SLY LIVES!, Questlove documents the genius of a funk trailblazer — and the pressure Sly felt as a Black artist. "Sly will be ... the first domino in a long list of people that will self-sabotage."

February 10, 2025
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  • Terry Gross
"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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  • 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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  • Noah Caldwell,
  • Juana Summers,
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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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  • 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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