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News Articles: Music Interviews

Midge Ure during Rock Meets Classic at MHP Arena, Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany on  April 10, 2024.

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  • Music Interviews

Legendary Live Aid co-creator Midge Ure on a generation of music activism: 'Wow, this is us!'

The Scottish singer, guitarist and keyboardist who co-wrote and co-produced the 1984 Band Aid charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" with Bob Geldof and makes a rare appearance at The Earl in Atlanta on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024 where he performs songs from his Band in a Box tour. 

 

August 30, 2024
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  • Kristi York Wooten
GPB News NPR

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  • Music Interviews

Conductor Jonathon Heyward is breaking barriers

As music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Heyward is the youngest to lead a major American orchestra and the first Black music director in the organization’s 107-year history.

August 29, 2024
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  • Lara Downes
Crowded House:

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  • Music Interviews

Watch: Crowded House on why the joy of music is 'doubly important' in today's world

The beloved Australian rock band makes a rare appearance at Atlanta's Chastain Park Amphitheater on Aug.30, featuring singer Neil Finn, his musician sons Liam and Elroy, bassist Nick Seymour and keyboardist Mitchell Froom. The group released a new album, Gravity Stairs, earlier this year. GPB's Kristi York Wooten spoke with the band ahead of its long-awaited return to Georgia. 

August 27, 2024
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  • Kristi York Wooten
On Nick Cave's his latest album, <em>Wild God</em>, out August 30, the fragility of his recent recordings has evolved into a cathartic emotional and musical power that bursts out of the songs.

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  • Music

Nick Cave wrestles with a ‘Wild God’

"If I have to define my music in any way," Nick Cave says, "it's religious music." His new album is a gallery of encounters with spiritual, possibly divine figures, not all of whom are benevolent.

August 20, 2024
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  • Ann Powers
The Oak Ridge Boys' farewell tour includes the lineup (from left): Ben James, Duane Allen, William Lee Golden and Richard Sterban. The group performs Aug. 23, 2024, at the Anderson Music Hall in Hiawassee, Ga.

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  • Music Interviews

Watch: 'Giddy up' with the Oak Ridge Boys at this year's Georgia Mountain Fair

The quartet known for its country and Southern gospel recordings — and its 1982 hit "Elvira" — headlines at the Anderson Music Hall in Hiawassee, Ga., on Aug. 23. Oak Ridge Boys bass singer Richard Sterban talked with GPB about his career with the group and singing background vocals with Elvis Presley, Paul Simon and others.

August 16, 2024
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  • Kristi York Wooten
Milton Nascimento and esperanza spalding recorded much of their new album from Nascimento's home in Brazil.

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  • Music News

Milton Nascimento and esperanza spalding honor friendship on their new album

Musician esperanza spalding was in college when she became a fan of Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento. Now she's made an album with him.

August 09, 2024
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  • Milton Guevara,
  • Taylor Haney,
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In 2023, after two decades in the rap game, Killer Mike turned a page in his career with the highly autobiographical album <em>Michael</em>, which won him multiple trophies at the Grammy awards, where he was arrested backstage. On his new follow-up, <em>Songs For Sinners and Saints</em> he reworks several songs from <em>Michael</em> by reaching even deeper back into the church music of his childhood.

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  • Music

The gospel according to Michael

On his latest album, the Atlanta rapper, who swept the hip-hop prizes at this year's Grammys, continues to turn personal turmoil into testimony.

August 07, 2024
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  • Rodney Carmichael
"No matter what, there's one thing you can't deny ... that I am giving it everything and leaving nothing," Brittany Howard says.

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  • Music Interviews

Brittany Howard on Prince, breakup songs and giving 'everything and leaving nothing'

As a kid, the former Alabama Shakes singer/guitarist was told repeatedly she didn't look like a lead singer. "It made me sing ... louder and perform just as hard as I could," Howard says.

August 01, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
Now in her 80s, the New York interdisciplinary artist Meredith Monk remains best known for her extended vocal technique, a concept she found her way to in the 1960s.

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  • Music Interviews

‘The voice is my river’: Meredith Monk reflects on 6 decades of music-making

The revered interdisciplinary artist, now in her 80s, remains vigorous and regards the joy of curiosity as the key to staying young.

August 01, 2024
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  • Tom Huizenga
GPB News NPR

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  • Music Interviews

Conductor Thomas Wilkins asks orchestras to 'jump off a cliff' with him

The principal conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra radiates an empathetic, Yoda-like wisdom when it comes to conjuring beautiful sounds from both pros and students.

July 30, 2024
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  • Lara Downes
 Joey Berkley

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  • Music

An electrode in the brain restores the career of saxophonist Joey Berkley

Saxophonist Joey Berkley lost his ability to play due to the muscular disorder focal dystonia, but experimental treatment has given him enough flexibility to record a comeback album titled A Suite Life.

July 26, 2024
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By:
  • Phil Harrell
Journey (top) and Def Leppard (below) are in the midst of a 23-night summer stadium tour across the U.S.tour

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  • Music Interviews

WATCH: Journey and Def Leppard guitarists plan to rock at Truist Park concert, rain or shine

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers will be joined by the legendary Steve Miller Band on their summer stadium July 13 at the home of the Atlanta Braves. Journey guitarist Neal Schon and Def Leppard guitarist Phill Collen talked with GPB's Kristi York Wooten about their bands' history and which songs they hope will be the biggest singalongs.

July 09, 2024
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  • Kristi York Wooten
GPB News NPR

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  • Music Interviews

Countertenor John Holiday isn't trying to make you love him

The versatile singer, who emphasizes self-acceptance, says his mission is to be a bridge from the classical community to pop, jazz and R & B. And if you’re not a fan, that’s okay.

June 27, 2024
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By:
  • Lara Downes
"Do I truly feel like hip-hop is dead? No, I don't," Questlove tells NPR. "However, I do believe that the landscape and the rules have changed. And some of its participants don't know it."

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  • Music

In an industry of conformity, Questlove remains a hip-hop iconoclast

In a new interview, Questlove reveals why Drake vs. Kendrick was so triggering, how he regained his passion for hip-hop and what to expect from the new Roots album.

June 25, 2024
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  • Rodney Carmichael
 Dirty Three

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  • Music

Dirty Three, instrumental rock explorers, climbs mountains with wheelbarrows

Amid the members' many high-profile pursuits, including collaborations with Nick Cave and Cat Power, the Australian trio returns to the ecstatic and deafening music of Dirty Three.

June 24, 2024
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  • Hank Shteamer
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