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Lyrics from 'Me Porto Bonito' by Bad Bunny will stay with you

We asked Anamaria Sayre of NPR's Latin music podcast Alt.Latino: Was there a lyric from 2022 that stayed with you all year? She chose a line from Bad Bunny's "Me Porto Bonito."

December 28, 2022
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By:
  • Anamaria Artemisa Sayre
Tory Lanez, real name Daystar Peterson, stood trial for three felony charges; assault with a semi-automatic firearm, possession of a concealed, unregistered firearm, negligent discharge of a firearm.

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  • Music News

Tory Lanez found guilty of shooting Megan Thee Stallion

The charges stem from a dispute that took place after the rappers left a pool party at Kylie Jenner's house in Los Angeles in 2020. Lanez was accused of assaulting Megan by shooting her in both feet.

December 24, 2022
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By:
  • Sidney Madden and
  • Gabby Bulgarelli
Ab-Soul, photographed at the TDE Pool Party on July 18, 2021 in LA.

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  • Music News

Rapper Ab-Soul is back with 'Herbert,' a memoir in album form

NPR's A Martinez talks to Herbert Anthony Stevens IV, better known as rapper Ab-Soul, about his new album: Herbert. The new songs are all about grief.

December 20, 2022
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  • GPB Newsroom
Musician Terry Hall of The Specials performs on the Main Stage, at the Isle of Wight Festival in Seaclose Park, Newport, Isle of Wight, England, on June 14, 2014.

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  • Music News

Terry Hall, singer with ska icons The Specials, dies at 63

Terry Hall, lead singer of The Specials, has died. With its mix of Black and white members and Jamaica-influenced fashion style, the band became leaders of the anti-racist 2 Tone ska revival movement.

December 20, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
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  • Music News

Encore: The 'Free to Be... You and Me' legacy 50 years later

The album "Free to Be... You and Me" was released in 1972, featuring children's music which celebrated tolerance and acceptance. 50 years later, what's the album's legacy?

December 19, 2022
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By:
  • Deena Prichep
GPB  NPR

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  • Pop Culture

Emotional testimony, recanting witnesses: Week one of the Tory Lanez assault trial

Rapper Tory Lanez is on trial for allegedly shooting rapper Megan Thee Stallion. Louder Than A Riot host Sidney Madden discusses the first week of testimony from outside the courthouse.

December 19, 2022
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  • Sidney Madden
Bad Bunny, pictured performing on stage in Philadelphia in September, finished his international tour in Mexico City last weekend — but many fans were denied entry after being told their tickets were illegitimate.

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  • Music News

After a Ticketmaster snafu, Mexico's president asks Bad Bunny to hold a free concert

After hundreds of ticket holders were denied entry to Bad Bunny's shows in Mexico City last weekend, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is asking the star to put on another concert for free.

December 16, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Manuel Göttsching, an influential German musician best known for his work on modular synths, died Dec. 4.

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  • Music Features

Remembering musical astronaut Manuel Göttsching

After founding the quietly influential band Ash Ra Tempel at 17 years old, Göttsching would go on to have an enormous influence on the trajectory of electronic and dance music.

December 16, 2022
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By:
  • Ruth Saxelby
Gepetto is voiced by David Bradley and Pinocchio by Gregory Mann in Guillermo del Toro's <em>Pinocchio</em>.

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  • Movies

Alexandre Desplat scores 'joyous melancholy' in Guillermo del Toro's 'Pinocchio'

Guillermo del Toro's new film, Pinocchio, hovers between joy and sadness. So does the music by French composer Alexandre Desplat — performed, appropriately, entirely on wooden instruments.

December 15, 2022
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  • Olivia Hampton
Mariah Carey, pictured performing at 2019 Billboard Music Awards, has topped the charts again with her signature Christmas hit.

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  • Music News

Why 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' tops the charts every year (2022 included)

"All I Want For Christmas Is You" is the first song to ever have four separate runs at No. 1 on the chart, beginning in 2019. It's become a holiday hallmark in the years since its 1994 release.

December 14, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Megan Thee Stallion, whose legal name is Megan Pete, makes her way from the Hall of Justice to the courthouse to testify in the trial of Rapper Tory Lanez for allegedly shooting her on Tuesday, Dec. 13 in Los Angeles, CA.

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  • Music News

Megan Thee Stallion takes the stand in Tory Lanez trial, shares suicidal thoughts

As the key witness for the prosecution, the Houston rapper spoke for the first time in explicit detail about the night Lanez allegedly shot her in 2020.

December 14, 2022
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By:
  • Gabby Bulgarelli,
  • Sidney Madden,
  • and 1 more
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his deputy Gabriel Sterling testify on June 21, 2022 at the US House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

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  • Politics

Georgia Today: Secretary of State subpoenaed, open enrollment, AAA forecasts holiday travel

On the Tuesday Dec. 13 edition of Georgia Today: Georgia’s Secretary of State has been subpoenaed, the deadline for open market insurance enrollment nears, and AAA says people are going to do a lot of traveling this holiday season.

December 13, 2022
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By:
  • Peter Biello and
  • Jeremy Powell
Anna Dobrova, 19, rehearses for a production of <em>The Snow Queen</em> by the Kyiv National Ballet at the National Opera in Kyiv on Sunday. The medley will be performed without music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Sergei Prokofiev this year.

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  • Arts & Life

Ukraine is calling for a boycott of 'The Nutcracker.' Ballet companies aren't budging

Ukraine's culture minister said his country's allies could stop Russia from weaponizing its culture by temporarily boycotting Russian artists, including The Nutcracker composer Tchaikovsky.

December 09, 2022
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By:
  • Emily Olson
Rapper Tory Lanez performs onstage at the 2017 Meadows Music And Arts Festival in New York City.

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  • Music

The timeline of events leading up to the Tory Lanez assault trial

The trial comes after two years of back-and-forth and division in the hip-hop world. Lanez is charged with shooting fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion.

December 08, 2022
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By:
  • Giulia Heyward
Céline Dion performing in 2019, the year her world tour was original scheduled to begin. It has since been delayed repeatedly, first due to the pandemic and then because of muscle spasms that have now been diagnosed as stiff-person syndrome.

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  • Music News

Céline Dion was diagnosed with stiff-person syndrome. Here's how it affects people

The singer repeatedly postponed performances in the past year because of severe muscle spasms. In a tearful Instagram post, she revealed she has been diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder.

December 08, 2022
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  • Emily Olson
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