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News Articles: Music News

Verlaine was known for his jagged guitar playing style involving heavy vibrato and distortion and off-kilter lyrics.

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  • Music

Tom Verlaine, guitarist and singer of influential rock band Television, dies at 73

The founding father of American punk and a fixture in the 1970s New York rock scene died Saturday as the result of a brief illness.

January 29, 2023
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Japanese musician, composer, record producer, pianist, activist, writer, actor and dancer Ryuichi Sakamoto, photographed on June 30, 2016 in Paris.

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  • Music Interviews

As Ryuichi Sakamoto returns with '12,' fellow artists recall his impact

The composer has been lauded for decades over his deeply affective music; director Alejandro González Iñárritu, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir and more join us to explain why.

January 26, 2023
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair,
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento,
  • and 1 more
Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino, left, testifies to a Senate subcommittee on Feb. 24, 2009 over the proposed, and ultimately successful, merger between his company and Ticketmaster.

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  • National

Senators slam Ticketmaster over bungling of Taylor Swift tickets, question breakup

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Variety's Jem Aswad about the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing into Live Nation and the lack of competition in the ticketing industry.

January 26, 2023
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By:
  • Karen Zamora,
  • Christopher Intagliata,
  • and 1 more
"The crowds chasing us in <em>A Hard Day's Night </em>were based on moments like this," McCartney writes. "Taken out of the back of our car on West Fifty-Eighth, crossing the Avenue of the Americas."

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  • Music

For the Beatles-obsessed, here are 3 never-before-seen photos from 1964

When the Beatles embarked on the tour that helped launch the British Invasion in 1964, Paul McCartney had a 35mm camera on hand to help document the history-making mayhem.

January 25, 2023
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson
Penny Harrison and her son Parker Harrison rally outside the U.S. Capitol during the Senate Judiciary Committee's Ticketmaster hearing on Tuesday morning.

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  • National

The Senate's Ticketmaster hearing featured plenty of Taylor Swift puns and protesters

The Senate Judiciary Committee held its much-anticipated hearing into Live Nation and the ticketing industry as dozens of Swifties rallied outside the Capitol and hundreds more joined in virtually.

January 24, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Panic! at the Disco performs onstage at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre on May 14, 2016, in Irvine, Calif. The group is ending its nearly two-decade run, frontman Brendon Urie announced Tuesday.

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  • Music News

Panic! at the Disco is ending after nearly two decades

Brendon Urie, the band's frontman and last remaining original member, made the announcement on Instagram. He said with he and his wife expecting their first child, he wants to focus on his family.

January 24, 2023
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By:
  • Kaitlyn Radde
Members of the Grant Avenue Follies, a senior cabaret dance troupe based in San Francisco's Chinatown, collaborated with rapper Jason Chu on the Lunar New Year song "That Lunar Cheer."

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  • Music

San Francisco Chinatown seniors welcome in the Lunar New Year with rap

The Grant Avenue Follies are steeped in tap dance and the songs of the 1950s and '60s. But they are no strangers to hip-hop, as the track "That Lunar Cheer" shows.

January 22, 2023
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman plays in 2019. Swing is an essential component of nearly all kinds of jazz music. Physicists think that subtle nuances in the timing of soloists are key to creating that propulsive swing feel.

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  • Science

What makes that song swing? At last, physicists unravel a jazz mystery

For nearly a century, jazz musicians have debated what gives songs that propulsive, groovy feel that makes you want to move with the music. The secret may lie in subtle nuances in a soloist's timing.

January 21, 2023
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By:
  • Maria Godoy
David Crosby, photographed in New York on August 3, 1984.

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  • Music News

Crosby, Stills & Nash co-founder David Crosby has died at 81

Crosby was a prominent figure of the free-spirited 1970s Laurel Canyon scene who helped bring folk-rock mainstream with both The Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash.

January 20, 2023
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By:
  • Annie Zaleski and
  • Eric Westervelt
GPB  NPR

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  • Music News

Remembering folk-rock legend David Crosby, who died at age 81

NPR's A Martinez talks to Michael Walker, author of Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood, about David Crosby's legacy.

January 20, 2023
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  • GPB Newsroom
GPB  NPR

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  • Music News

A Rolex for a Casio: Why Shakira's new song is breaking records

Shakira's new single is a full-on diss track, aimed at her ex. It also went straight to the top of the Spotify Top 50 Global chart and hit 100 million views on YouTube in under 3 days.

January 18, 2023
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By:
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
GPB  NPR

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  • Obituaries

Lisa Marie Presley spent her life in the spotlight

Singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of rock 'n' roll legend Elvis Presley, has died at 54 years old.

January 13, 2023
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By:
  • Mandalit del Barco
GPB  NPR

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  • Obituaries

Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Presley's only child and a singer in her own right, dies

"It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us," Priscilla Presley said in a statement.

January 12, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Guitarist Jeff Beck performs during the 43rd Montreux Jazz Festival. The influential guitarist died on January 10, 2023 after contracting bacterial meningitis.

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  • Obituaries

Classic rock guitar virtuoso Jeff Beck dies at 78

Guitarist Jeff Beck was among a wave of influential English guitar players in love with American blues. He died on Tuesday, January 10 after contracting bacterial meningitis.

January 12, 2023
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
GPB  NPR

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  • Obituaries

Acclaimed guitarist Jeff Beck dies at 78

Jeff Beck, one the most acclaimed guitarists in rock and roll history, died Tuesday after contracting bacterial meningitis, according to his family. He was 78 years old.

January 12, 2023
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By:
  • Felix Contreras
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