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News Articles: Music Interviews

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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By:
  • 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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By:
  • Hank Shteamer
 Jack Antonoff says grief can be almost like an emotional lens through which to view the world.

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  • Arts & Life

How grief taught award-winning producer Jack Antonoff to be less cynical

Jack Antonoff has seemingly cracked the code for producing hit albums, winning Grammys for his work with artists like Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift. But for his own writing, he leans into the unknown.

June 03, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Martin
Yo-Yo Ma performs in Washington, D.C., on June 25, 2018.

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  • Music

Yo-Yo Ma on ‘touching infinity’ through his nearly 300-year-old cello, Petunia

About 25 years ago, the acclaimed cellist asked a high school student to help him name his instrument. He brings his cello — aka "Petunia" — to the Fresh Air studio for music and conversation.

May 30, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
GPB News NPR

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  • Music Interviews

Brittney Spencer brings her culture to country music

The rising young singer-songwriter, who tours with Willie Nelson and sings on Beyoncé's latest album, is making a name for herself in a new era of more inclusive country music.

May 30, 2024
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By:
  • Lara Downes
Lil John Roberts and The Senators (Tres Gilbert, Phil Davis and Derek Scott) are part of the Atlanta All-Star Band at Symphony Hall May 24, for the Atlanta Jazz Festival Presentation of WCLK At 50.

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  • Music Features

'WCLK at 50' puts Lil John Roberts in the spotlight. Here's why the drummer is an Atlanta music icon

This year, Clark Atlanta University's radio station, WCLK Jazz 91.9 FM, is celebrating its golden anniversary. As part of the Atlanta Jazz Festival, the station will be honored in a "WLCK At 50" event at Atlanta's Symphony Hall on May 24, featuring Lil John Roberts and an Atlanta All-Star Band. Roberts may not be a household name, but this "musician's musician" has played with luminaries including Stevie Wonder, George Benson, Prince, Elton John and Janet Jackson.

May 24, 2024
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  • Sonia Murray
Maggie Rogers says her new album, <em>Don't Forget Me</em>, is modeled on a Sunday afternoon driving record.

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  • Music Interviews

Maggie Rogers takes a nostalgic Southwest road trip with 'Don't Forget Me'

In 2021, burnt out from the intensity of her early career, Rogers considered quitting music entirely. Instead, she took a detour — to Harvard Divinity School. Her new album is Don't Forget Me.

May 22, 2024
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  • Sam Briger
Michael McDonald, 72, describes his voice as a "malleable" instrument: "Especially with age, it's like you're constantly renegotiating with it."

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  • Music Interviews

With age and sobriety, Michael McDonald is ready to get personal

McDonald says that earlier in his career, he tended to avoid writing about himself directly in songs. He opens up about his life and career in the memoir, What a Fool Believes.

May 21, 2024
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By:
  • Tonya Mosley
A new album by pianist Inna Faliks features world premiere recordings of works by five composers.

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  • Music News

Pianist Inna Faliks traces musical odyssey from Soviet Ukraine via Faustian fantasy

Faliks draws from her Ukrainian-Jewish heritage and Mikhail Bulgakov's anti-censorship novel The Master and Margarita for a new album.

May 20, 2024
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By:
  • Olivia Hampton
Billie Eilish's third album, created as always alongside her brother and collaborator Finneas, is titled <em>Hit Me Hard and Soft.</em>

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  • Music

Billie Eilish finally remembers who she is

Speaking alongside brother/collaborator Finneas, Eilish says she discovered a new self-awareness on Hit Me Hard and Soft, after years of seeing herself through others' eyes.

May 17, 2024
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By:
  • Leila Fadel and
  • Phil Harrell
Serj Tankian, singer for System of a Down

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  • Author Interviews

System of a Down's Serj Tankian on his memoir, why a new album hasn't come since 2005

System of a Down singer Serj Tankian covers fleeing the Lebanese Civil War as a child, advocating for recognition of the Armenian Genocide, and why his band hasn't made a new album since 2005.

May 14, 2024
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By:
  • Kaity Kline,
  • Phil Harrell,
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"When I first started being in Bikini Kill, I thought of myself as a feminist performance artist who was in a punk band," Kathleen Hanna says.

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  • Music Interviews

Kathleen Hanna on life as a 'Rebel Girl,' and the joy of expressing anger in public

The Bikini Kill frontwoman pioneered the "riot grrrl" movement in the 1990s. "I thought of myself as a feminist performance artist who was in a punk band," Hanna says.

May 13, 2024
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By:
  • Ann Marie Baldonado
Wuxtry Records in Athens, Ga.

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  • Music

Sense of Place: Wuxtry Records is the heart of Athens' musical legacy

R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and Danger Mouse are just some of this indie record store's former staffers.

May 13, 2024
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  • Raina Douris and
  • Miguel Perez
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